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Planning to give a child a house, a site or a share in the business during your lifetime? A Section 73 savings plan builds the money for their gift tax over eight years, and pays it without creating a second tax bill.
Tell us what you plan to give and when. A senior advisor is in touch with the likely gift tax and what to save each month.
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When you give your child a large gift, they pay CAT at 33% on the value above their threshold. If you pay that tax for them from your own money, the payment is a further gift, and it can be taxed again.
A Section 73 plan avoids that. It is a regular savings plan with an Irish life company, set up under section 73 of the Capital Acquisitions Tax Consolidation Act 2003. Money from it used to pay the tax on a gift you make within a year of the payout is exempt from CAT.
Revenue sets the conditions, and missing one can cost the relief. You pay regular premiums for at least eight years, and the plan pays out on a date more than eight years after it began. The gift must then be made within a year of that date.
The plan must be written under Section 73 from the start, so an existing savings policy cannot be converted. If the premiums stop before eight years, the relief is lost.
A €600,000 house given to a son, after the €420,000 Group A threshold and the €3,000 small gift exemption, with no earlier gifts.
| Without Section 73 | With Section 73 | |
|---|---|---|
| Taxable gift | €177,000 | €177,000 |
| Gift tax at 33% | €58,410 | €58,410 |
| Tax on the parent paying that tax | €19,275 | Nil |
| Total tax | €77,685 | €58,410 |
Brendan is 58. He plans to give his son Conor a house now worth €600,000 when he retires in eight years. Conor has had no earlier gifts from his parents.
What the plan showed:
Figures are illustrative and use today's thresholds. The value of the plan can fall as well as rise.
A Section 73 plan is a unit-linked savings policy. Your premiums buy units in funds matched to your risk rating, so the value can rise or fall. Aviva and Standard Life both offer Section 73 plans, and Aviva's start from €100 a month.
Gains are taxed like any life company investment. Exit tax comes off the growth when the plan pays out, and every eight years under deemed disposal. Budget 2027 cuts the rate from 38% to 35%.
What you plan to give, to whom and when. Two minutes on the form.
At today's thresholds, in euro, with the small gift exemption applied.
What to save each month to meet the bill, with a margin for poor years.
Section 73 plans, funds and charges across the main Irish life companies.
From day one, so the relief is there when you need it.
Against the value of the gift and any change in the thresholds.
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Parents and grandparents who plan to pass on a house, a site, land or business shares in eight years or more, and who have spare income to save towards the tax.
No. If you decide not to, the plan stays yours, to use as ordinary savings.
The eight-year wait is shortened if you, or your spouse or civil partner, die or become critically ill and the policy pays out. If you die after the payout but before making the gift, the relief for the gift is lost. A plan that pays out on death may qualify under Section 72 instead, if it meets those rules.
Yes. A plan is held in one person's name, or jointly by a married couple or civil partners.
Within limits. Over the eight years, no year's premium can be less than half of another year's. If premiums stop, they cannot restart, and stopping inside the first eight years loses the relief.
In some cases. A Section 73 plan that pays out on your death can qualify as Section 72 cover if it meets those rules. For inheritance tax on your death, Section 72 cover is the usual route.
Yes, on the gain, as with any life company savings plan. The provider deducts it, and the rest goes towards the gift tax.
Checked 8 October 2026.
Warning: The value of your investment may go down as well as up.
Warning: If you invest in this product you may lose some or all of the money you invest.
Two minutes on the form. A senior advisor is in touch with the tax and the monthly amount that meets it.