SEIS Explained: Which Companies Qualify, How Much You Can Raise and Why Angels Ask for It
SEIS, the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme, is a UK tax scheme that gives individual investors 50% income tax relief when they buy new shares in a young company. The company can raise up to £250,000 under it, and in return it has to meet HMRC’s rules on its size, its age, its trade and how it spends the money.
The relief goes to the investor, not the company. For the founder, SEIS matters because it changes the maths for the UK angels looking at the round, and some of them won’t talk about investing without it.
I’ve raised £250m+ for my own companies and funded more than…
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