Sole Trader Tax Returns

Help Filing Form 11 Tax Return. Income Tax. Personal Taxes

If you’re a newly self-employed business owner, you are now officially part of the self-assessment tax system. This means you will need to file a Form 11 tax return with Revenue, on an annual basis. This annual filing requirement also applies to you if you:

• operate outside the PAYE system as a self-employed individual, sole trader, or subcontractor

• are a proprietary Director

• generate non-PAYE earnings from freelance work, “nixers,” investments, or dividends which exceed €5,000 in a tax year.

• Your gross non-PAYE income exceeds €30,000

• generate rental income from residential or commercial properties

• receive foreign income

• hold offshore funds, ETFs or other investments on which you receive income or gains.

The Pay and File deadline for the 2025 Income Tax Return Form 11 is 31st October 2026.

There is an extension if you pay and file on the Revenue Online Service. This extended deadline is Wednesday 18th November 2026.

For further information, please click: https://www.revenue.ie/en/tax-professionals/ebrief/2026/no-0342026.aspx

For full and comprehensive tax advice and assistance completing your Tax Returns, please contact us at info@accountsadvicecentre.ie

Please be aware that the information contained in this article is of a general nature.  It is not intended to address specific circumstances in relation to any individual or entity. All reasonable efforts have been made by Accounts Advice Centre to provide accurate and up-to-date information, however, there can be no guarantee that such information is accurate on the date it is received or that it will continue to remain so. This information should not be acted upon without full and comprehensive, specialist professional tax advice.