Form your Irish company as a resident director, with the statutory document set, the company seal, the Corporation Tax registration and the beneficial ownership filing in one fixed price.
If you live in Ireland you can act as sole director.
You do not need a Section 137 bond and you do not need a nominee director, because an Irish-resident director already satisfies the residency requirement of section 137 of the Companies Act 2014.
Setting the company up is the easy part. What catches new directors out is what falls due afterwards: the beneficial ownership filing and the company’s tax registration. Both are in this package. The company secretary, your own Income Tax registration as a director, and your first annual return sit outside it, and the section below sets out what the whole first year costs so there is no surprise later.
Full AML and KYC checks on every director, shareholder and beneficial owner are carried out to the standard required of us as an authorised Trust or Company Service Provider. That work is inside the price, not billed on top.
The second number
The package price is not the same thing as the cost of running a compliant company for twelve months, and most formation pages stop at the first number. Here is the second one.
The package covers everything in the two lists above. These sit outside it, and whether you need each one depends on your own situation. Ordered together with the formation, each is charged at the package rate. Bought later or on its own, each is charged at its standard rate.
| Item | When you need it | With the packageex VAT | On its ownex VAT |
|---|---|---|---|
| Income Tax registration for the director | Unless you are already registered, see below | With the package, ex VATEUR 100 | On its own, ex VATEUR 250 |
| First annual return, Form B1 | Always, six months after incorporation | With the package, ex VATEUR 150and we cover the EUR 20 CRO fee | On its own, ex VATEUR 150plus the EUR 20 CRO fee |
| Company secretary, 12 months | Always, every company must have one, see section 129 below | With the package, ex VATEUR 300per year | On its own, ex VATEUR 400per year |
| Registered office address, 12 months | Only if you do not have an Irish address you can use | With the package, ex VATEUR 300per year | On its own, ex VATEUR 400per year |
All figures exclude VAT. The CRO charges a EUR 20 fee for filing the annual return. Ordered with the formation we cover that fee; bought on its own it is added to the price. The CRO incorporation fee is already inside the package price either way.
Two realistic scenarios
You are the only director, so the company needs a separate secretary, and you have an Irish address it can use as its registered office.
and EUR 100 more if you are not already registered for Income Tax.
The same company, except that it also needs a registered office from us.
and EUR 100 more if you are not already registered for Income Tax.
Neither example includes VAT registration or employer registration, because neither is automatic. You register for VAT when your activity or turnover requires it, and for PAYE when you take on staff.
Almost certainly, and it is worth understanding why it sits outside the package.
The package registers the company for Corporation Tax. Your own tax position as a director is separate.
Section 472 TCA 1997
Section 472 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 defines a proprietary director as a director who is the beneficial owner of, or able to control, more than 15 per cent of the ordinary share capital of the company. Most founders of their own company are well above that line.
Section 959A TCA 1997, Revenue’s manual
Revenue treats every proprietary director as a chargeable person under self assessment, section 959A of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997. Revenue’s own manual puts it plainly: all proprietary directors are chargeable persons and must be set up on Revenue’s record for the issue of a self-assessment return.
Being set up on that record requires a PPS number and an active Income Tax registration.
Irish residents hold a PPS number as standard, which is why this package does not carry one, and an IPN is only ever needed by a director without a PPS number. So in most cases the only item still outstanding is the Income Tax registration. In our own practice the company’s Corporation Tax registration goes through cleanly when the director’s Income Tax registration is already in place, so we do the two together rather than one after the other.
Most companies are ready within 10 to 15 working days once we have your signed documents and your identity verification. The CRO publishes no processing standard, only its daily processing position, so no provider can guarantee a CRO turnaround. What we control is the filing: we submit as soon as your file is complete and your application does not sit waiting on our side.
Tax registration and the RBO filing follow incorporation rather than running alongside it, because both need the company number the CRO issues. The annual return falls due six months after incorporation and is bought separately when the date approaches.
Your annual return date falls six months after incorporation, and the B1 must be filed within fifty-six days of that date under section 343 of the Companies Act 2014. Filing it late carries a fee, and a second late return within any five-year period costs the company its audit exemption for that year and the next.
This is the single deadline new directors most often miss. It is not part of this package. We flag the date in advance and file the B1 as a separate service.
Yes. Every Irish company must have a company secretary, section 129(1) of the Companies Act 2014, and where the company has only one director that person cannot also act as secretary, section 129(6).
Section 129(4), the duty sits with the directors
The role carries real work. The secretary keeps the statutory registers, signs the annual return alongside a director, and answers for the filings being correct and on time. Section 129(4) puts the burden on the directors: they must take all reasonable steps to ensure the secretary has the skills necessary to discharge those statutory and other legal duties.
Our company secretary service is EUR 300 a year ordered with the formation, or EUR 400 a year on its own, both excluding VAT.
is due within five months of incorporation
In the package
should be in place before the company begins to trade
In the package
as set out above
Separate service
Two of these three are covered by this package. The first annual return is a separate service, and we come to you with the date rather than leaving you to find it.
You can. The CRO accepts a Form A1 filed directly and charges EUR 50 for an electronic filing. If you are comfortable drafting a constitution, setting up the statutory registers, issuing share certificates, recording the first decision of the directors and handling the RBO filing and the Revenue registrations yourself, the state fee is the only unavoidable cost.
EUR 50 CRO fee, the only unavoidable cost
The file being right the first time
What you are buying here is not access to the register. It is the file being right the first time. The common failures are a name rejected on similarity or phonetic grounds after the application is in, a constitution that does not match what the company actually needs, an RBO filing missed inside its five-month window, and tax registrations started too late to be in place before trading begins. Each of those costs time rather than money at first, and money later.
If you want the incorporation on its own, without the registrations, we also sell it that way: see Irish company incorporation and statutory documents.
These sit outside the package, and are available separately so you only pay for what your company actually needs:
The first annual return is filed without financial statements. Every annual return after it carries them, which is where an accountant enters the picture if you do not already have one. The pattern from year two is steady: an annual return each year on the same date, a Corporation Tax return for the company, and a Form 11 Income Tax return for the proprietary director.
Two of those first-year services renew if you took them. The company secretary and the registered office address are annual, and both are invoiced yearly rather than rolled into the formation price, so you can drop either the moment you no longer need it, for example when you move into your own premises.
Audit exemption is worth protecting. It is lost for a year, and for the year after, when a company files two late annual returns inside any five-year period. A company that never files late never has to think about it.
Founders resident in Ireland who want the company formed and registered properly without managing filing dates themselves.
Resident in the EU / EEA EU / EEA Resident Company Formation Carries the registered office and the company secretary for twelve months inside the price. Resident outside the EEA Non-Resident Company Formation You will also need a resident director solution under section 137.
This package is EUR 475 excluding VAT, and the CRO filing fee is inside that price. The realistic first-year figure is EUR 925 if you have your own Irish address, and EUR 1,225 if you also need a registered office, because both scenarios include the company secretary at EUR 300 and the first annual return at the package rate of EUR 150. Add EUR 100 if you are not already registered for Income Tax as a director.
Yes. The CRO charges EUR 50 for an electronic Form A1 filing and that fee is inside the package price, so there is no separate state charge added at the end. The CRO charges a separate EUR 20 fee later for the annual return, and we cover that fee when the return is ordered with the formation.
Ordered together with the formation, each extra is charged at the package rate. Bought later, or bought on its own without a formation, the same service is charged at its standard rate. The table above shows both so you can see which applies to you.
The company needs a registered office in the Republic of Ireland. It does not have to be ours. If you have an Irish address the company can use, you need nothing further. If you do not, the registered office address service is EUR 300 a year ordered with the formation, or EUR 400 a year on its own, both excluding VAT.
If you own or control more than 15 per cent of the ordinary share capital of the company, yes. That is the definition in section 472 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997. Revenue treats every proprietary director as a chargeable person under self assessment, so you need a PPS number and an active Income Tax registration.
Yes, if you are resident in Ireland. A single-director company is lawful, but it must still have a secretary, and under section 129 of the Companies Act 2014 the sole director cannot also be the secretary.
No. Section 137 requires at least one director resident in the European Economic Area. An Irish-resident director satisfies that, so no bond and no nominee director are needed.
Most companies are ready within 10 to 15 working days from a complete file. The CRO publishes no processing standard, only its daily processing position, so any fixed figure is a provider estimate rather than an official one.
No. It falls due six months after incorporation, and the B1 must be filed within fifty-six days of that date under section 343 of the Companies Act 2014. We flag the date and file it as a separate service at EUR 150 excluding VAT, and when it is ordered with the formation we cover the EUR 20 CRO fee.
Not automatically. VAT registration depends on your activity and your turnover, and it is a separate application to Revenue with its own evidence requirements. It is not part of this package.
The certificate of incorporation, the constitution, share certificates for each subscriber, the minutes of the first board meeting, the statutory registers, the CRO company printout that banks usually ask for, and the company seal.
The document set is the one Irish banks and the main payment providers ask for at onboarding. Every bank runs its own checks and makes its own decision, so no provider can promise an account. We can assist with the application as a separate service.
Chern & Co Ltd is an authorised Irish Trust or Company Service Provider, authorisation APP/1211/2018, and a CRO filing agent that submits incorporation documents directly rather than through a third party. The authorisation can be checked on the regulator’s register.
All prices exclude VAT. VAT is added where applicable. Some activities require a licence, registration or insurance before trading. We can advise on this separately.
This page is general information, not professional advice. Take legal or tax advice before acting on it.
€475 excl. VAT
Not just the incorporation. This package carries the company from the CRO filing through the tax registrations and the beneficial ownership filing, with the full statutory document set and the company seal. For founders resident in Ireland, who can act as sole director with no Section 137 bond and no nominee director. The first annual return falls due later and is bought separately.
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Chern & Co Ltd is a Trust and Company Service Provider (TCSP) in Ireland, authorised and supervised by the Department of Justice.
Our official registration reference is TCSP APP/1211/2018, and we are listed in the public TCSP register maintained by the Irish Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Unit.
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