Perhaps! Honestly I didn't research it too much after discovering the close company surchage. I also considered it even if I stayed in Ireland; have the company

Perhaps! Honestly I didn't research it too much after discovering the close company surchage. I also considered it even if I stayed in Ireland; have the company sock away €200k a year for 5 years and then pay myself €35k for life at Ireland's low income tax rates (taxes here are among the most progressive in the EU - low earners are taxed very little, or none at all, while people only a bit above the median income are taxed very heavily). Alas, it was not to be.