SEIS & EIS · after advance assurance
Most SEIS and EIS relief is not lost at the application. It is lost after the raise, in the share issue, the SH01s and the compliance statements. If yours was set up elsewhere and something has gone wrong, we put it right.
50%
income tax relief your investors stand to lose if the shares are certified wrong.
1 month
to register an allotment at Companies House. The clock often starts before founders realise shares have been issued.
No appeal
once a compliance statement is filed and certificates go out, the errors travel to every investor's tax return.
The ledger of things that break
These are the failures we are called in to fix. Every one of them can sit behind a valid advance assurance, and every one can cost an investor their relief.
01
Advance subscription agreements convert at a share price, but the money paid buys a whole number of shares. Record the price instead of the money and each certificate understates what the investor actually subscribed, so they claim relief on less than they are entitled to. On low-nominal shares this can strand hundreds of pounds per investor.
SH01 · SEIS3 · share premium02
SEIS shares must be paid up in cash at the time of issue. An advance subscription that converts automatically on a longstop date can allot shares the company was never paid for, and relief on the whole subscription is lost, with no cure once the money turns up later.
s.257CA · fully paid03
Where a subscription price is set by reference to fully diluted shares, a signed agreement reserving equity for an adviser or employee belongs in that count. Leave it out and every price is wrong and every investor is short, often discovered only when a later document surfaces.
fully diluted · reserved shares04
The date of issue on the SH01, the certificate, the compliance statement and HMRC's authority should all match. When they don't, the three-year relief clock can run from the wrong day and the authority can name a date on which nothing was issued.
SEIS1 · SEIS2 · termination date05
Two allotments on the same day, each filed ignoring the other, and neither statement of capital reports the true number of shares in issue. The public register carries the error until someone corrects it by second filing.
Companies House · RP0406
A director, a connected party, or an adviser who both subscribes and receives equity for services can quietly fail the conditions the relief depends on. The subscription looks clean in isolation and much less clean beside the rest of the arrangement.
connection · receipt of valueHow we work
We start by reconciling every conversion against every filing, the agreement, the SH01, the register, the certificate, the compliance statement and the HMRC authority, and telling you exactly where they disagree.
STAGE 01
The review
A full reconciliation of what was issued against what was filed and what HMRC authorised. You get a written position, investor by investor, with the relief at stake and the deadlines already running.
STAGE 02
The urgent work
Allotments that have reached their longstop date, board minutes, register entries, certificates and SH01s filed inside the statutory month, so nothing else lapses while the rest is put right.
STAGE 03
The corrections
Corrective filings at Companies House, correspondence with HMRC's Venture Capital Reliefs Team, amended statements and reissued certificates, and a clear note for your investors.
Who this is for
Seisly Tax Services is led by a Chartered Tax Adviser and ICAEW Fellow who founded the UK's first SEIS fund on the day the scheme opened, and has spent more than a decade on SEIS and EIS practice. This is not a form-filling service. It is the person you want reading the agreement when relief is on the line.
Sanjay Wadhwani FCA CTA
Seisly Tax Services Limited
A short review tells you whether your SEIS or EIS compliance holds together, and what it takes to put right anything that doesn't. Send us what you have and we will tell you honestly what we see.
Scope. Tax advisory services are provided by Seisly Tax Services Limited, which is a separate company to Podium Platforms Limited, a technology company operating the Seisly platform. This page is general information, not tax advice. Eligibility for SEIS and EIS relief depends on the specific circumstances of the company and of each investor, on the company maintaining its qualifying status, and on tax law, all of which may change. We advise the company; individual investors should take their own advice on their personal tax position.