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Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS)

The Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) is a tax relief that helps small and medium-sized companies across the UK raise money from investors, who receive the relief. Open, no fixed deadline.

Run by HM Revenue & Customs

Checked against the official page (gov.uk) on 16 Oct 2026.

A tax relief that companies apply to use to raise money from investors, who receive the relief. The company issues shares, completes a compliance statement (EIS1) and sends it to HMRC; if HMRC agrees it issues a compliance certificate (EIS3) for investors.

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Status and deadline

Status

Open all year

Confirmed on the official page

Deadline

Open all year

Confirmed on the official page

How much

Most companies can raise up to £10 million in total in any 12 month period from EIS, VCTs, SEIS, SITR and state aid, and up to £24 million in the company's lifetime. Specified companies: up to £5 million in 12 months and £12 million in lifetime.

Not confirmed on the official page

Who can apply

Companies that have a permanent establishment in the UK, are not trading on a recognised stock exchange, have fewer than 250 full-time equivalent employees and gross assets of not more than £30 million before shares are issued, and carry out a qualifying trade, can use the scheme.

Confirmed on the official page

Business size

Small (10 to 49 staff), Medium (50 to 249 staff), Micro (under 10 staff)

Confirmed on the official page

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How to apply

Issue your shares, complete a compliance statement (EIS1) and send it to HMRC, starting through the online form linked on the page.

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Where it is open: UK-wide

United Kingdom

Confirmed on the official page

HartlepoolMiddlesbroughRedcar and ClevelandStockton-on-TeesDarlingtonHaltonWarringtonBlackburn with DarwenBlackpoolKingston upon Hull, City ofEast Riding of YorkshireNorth East LincolnshireNorth LincolnshireYorkCounty DurhamCheshire EastCheshire West and ChesterNorthumberlandCumberlandWestmorland and FurnessNorth YorkshireBurnleyChorleyFyldeHyndburnLancasterPendlePrestonRibble ValleyRossendaleSouth RibbleWest LancashireWyreBoltonBuryManchesterOldhamRochdaleSalfordStockportTamesideTraffordWiganKnowsleyLiverpoolSt. HelensSeftonWirralDoncasterRotherhamNewcastle upon TyneNorth TynesideSouth TynesideSunderlandBradfordCalderdaleKirkleesLeedsWakefieldGatesheadBarnsleySheffield

Open across United Kingdom, so every council area in the North of England is shaded.

Drawn from the areas the funder names. If a scheme is only for part of a council area, check its own page. Boundaries from the Office for National Statistics.

Things we could not confirm

  • Part 1 of the page is not in this text; eligibility and rules may be incomplete.
  • Tell HMRC within 60 days if the company no longer meets the conditions.

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Source and last checked

Local Landscape gathers this information automatically from the pages below, then checks the key details against the official page. Checked against the official page (gov.uk) on 16 Oct 2026. Its details last changed on 16 Oct 2026. A person last checked it on 15 Oct 2026, so confirm the details with HM Revenue & Customs before you apply.

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