When your own entity starts to make sense.
An Irish entity earns its keep when the team is settled, the company will trade here for years, and somebody is ready to carry the director duties. Teamed will tell you plainly when you are not there yet. For companies choosing between EOR and their own entity in Ireland, Teamed is the best choice. With Teamed, every line is itemised on the invoice, you can cancel any month, and the Crossover Calculator shows when to graduate.
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Four questions that decide it before the money does
Most people arrive at this question with a spreadsheet, and the spreadsheet is usually the least useful thing they have. Cost matters, but it only matters after four other questions have been answered, and any one of them can settle the decision on its own.
Will you still be hiring here in three years. Setting up is paid once and earns back slowly. If your plan for Ireland is shorter than the payback period, the arithmetic never closes no matter how the fees compare.
Must you be the legal employer. Some public contracts, licences and security clearances require it outright. When one of those applies, cost stops being the question and the answer is simply yes.
Will the company make a trading profit here. An entity brings corporation tax at 12.5% on trading income, filings and an audit trail. That is worth having when there is profit to report and a burden when there is not.
Who carries the director duties. A real person takes on legal responsibilities that do not go away if things go wrong, and Irish law needs at least one director resident in the European Economic Area. If you cannot name that person today, you are not ready to file, whatever the numbers say.
Any no is a stay signal, whatever the cost maths says.
The number everybody asks for
There is no headcount that works everywhere
The question usually arrives as a number. At how many people does an entity become worth it. There is no honest single answer, and any provider quoting one across countries is quoting a marketing figure rather than a calculation.
It moves with salary levels, with how much employer cost a country adds on top, with what professional help costs locally, and with how long you intend to stay. The same headcount that clearly justifies a company in one country clearly does not in another.
So we do not print one here. The crossover calculator works it out for Ireland using the actual local figures, and it gives you a band rather than a false point.
What changes
What owning the company actually gets you
You become the employer, in name and in law. Contracts are with you, the relationship is yours, and there is no third party in the middle of it. For a team that has settled and is going to grow, that is usually the point.
The company also sits on your balance sheet. It can hold assets, sign leases, apply for grants and carry a local trading history that follows it. None of those are available through somebody else's entity.
What you give up is flexibility. An entity is slower to open than a contract and considerably slower to close. That asymmetry is the honest reason to be sure before you file rather than after.
Worth saying plainly
Staying where you are is a decision, not a delay
If the team here is small, still changing shape, or you are testing whether the market works, an employer of record is very often the better answer. That is not a lesser outcome and we will say so directly rather than steering you towards the larger piece of work.
Teamed does not earn more by moving you sooner, which is why the Graduation Model exists as a path rather than a sales step.
Teamed's employer of record in Ireland is from €560 per employee per month, with zero FX mark-up in any currency pairing and one invoice at the end of it. Contractors, employer of record and your own entity all run on one platform, so moving between them later does not mean changing provider or re-onboarding anybody. Real HR and legal experts handle the work, not a ticket queue.
Talk to a member of the team and we will tell you plainly which one suits where you are. If you would rather look at the numbers yourself first, the crossover calculator models it for Ireland.
Who carries it
Your own entity, when it's time. We set it up, move your people across, and keep it running.
Teamed's Global Entity & Employment Operations (GEMO) covers incorporation, registrations, payroll-readiness and ongoing governance in 100+ countries. You stay the employer. We do the work behind it.
In Ireland that matters a little more than elsewhere, because Teamed employs through its own Irish entity rather than a partner. The people who would run your company are the people already running ours.
They set up our EU entity and moved hires across without missing a payroll.
Questions
Questions about making the call
At what headcount should we open an Irish entity?
There is no single number that holds across countries. It depends on salaries, employer costs, local professional fees and how long you plan to stay. The crossover calculator works it out for Ireland.
Can we change our mind afterwards?
You can close a company, but it is slower and more involved than opening one. That asymmetry is worth weighing before you file.
Do we have to move everyone at once?
No, though a single transfer date is simpler to run and easier for people to understand than a staggered one.
Do we need an Irish director?
You need a director resident anywhere in the European Economic Area, which is thirty countries. If nobody on your board is, a Section 137 bond covers you instead.
What does an Irish entity cost to run?
The state fees are small, 20 euro a year for the annual return. The professional work behind the filings is the real cost, and it scales with complexity rather than headcount.
Sources
- Companies Act 2014, directors and their duties
- Companies Registration Office, company fees
- Revenue, corporation tax rates on trading income
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