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Ireland Self-Assessment Income Tax Return (Form 11S, 2025 tax year)
File an Irish self-assessed individual's Income Tax Return and Self-Assessment using Revenue's Form 11S, the shorter return Revenue issues in place of the full Form 11 to a chargeable person with straightforward tax affairs (based on their past circumstances). It captures personal/civil-status details, self-employed trading income, PAYE/BIK/pension income, foreign pension income, other Irish income, exempt income (Rent-a-Room, childcare), charges and deductions, personal tax credits, and the Chapter 4 Part 41A self-assessment calculation. Out of scope: Irish rental income (Panel C) and Capital Gains (Panel L), both of which the source form models as repeating per-property/per-asset schedules that the current flat field model (GSP-0009) cannot express; an individual with either should use the full Form 11 in any case per the helpsheet. This document models the 2025 edition (year ended 31 December 2025); Revenue reissues a fresh Form 11S each tax year, but no edition scheme in the current closed `edition.scheme` vocabulary (spec v0.3 SS5.7: us-tax-year / gb-tax-year / award-year) fits Ireland's calendar-year tax year, so this document is published at the plain (non-edition) registry path pending a spec proposal — see VERIFICATION.md and spec/proposals/0019-generalize-edition-scheme-calendar-tax-year.md. It does not submit the return; the live Revenue source is always authoritative.
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ie/revenue/self-assessment-tax-return-form11s
GovSchema spec v0.3
Authoritative source Form 11S (2025 Tax Return and Self-Assessment for the year 2025) plus its companion '2025 Tax Return - Helpsheet - Form 11S'
Machine access
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registry/ie/revenue/self-assessment-tax-return-form11s/1.0.0/schema.jsonapplication/schema+json- Verification record
registry/ie/revenue/self-assessment-tax-return-form11s/1.0.0/VERIFICATION.mdtext/markdown- Registry catalog
registry/index.jsonone record per schema id
Field reference
77 fields across 7 steps, read from the published schema.json — names, types, requiredness, and validation as the document states them. The live government form remains the authoritative source.
Personal details (Panel A)
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civilStatusenum requiredYour civil status as at the date of this return.
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personalCircumstancesChangedIn2025boolean optionalGate for civilStatusChangeDate and previousCivilStatus, per the helpsheet: 'complete only where your personal civil status changed during 2025'.
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civilStatusChangeDatedate optionalRequired only if personalCircumstancesChangedIn2025 is true.
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previousCivilStatusstring optionalYour civil status before the change (e.g. single, married). Required only if personalCircumstancesChangedIn2025 is true.
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basisOfAssessmentenum requiredApplies to married couples/civil partners. joint_assessment = assessed together; separate_assessment = each assessed separately but tax computed as if jointly assessed; single_treatment = each treated as a single person.
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dateOfMarriageOrCivilPartnershipdate optionalRequired only if civilStatus is married or civil_partnership. The helpsheet asks for this specifically 'if you were married or in a civil partnership before 1 January 2025'.
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numberOfDependentChildreninteger optionalState the number of Dependent Children.
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selfPermanentlyIncapacitatedboolean optionalIncapacitated by reason of mental or physical infirmity from maintaining yourself, per Helpsheet note 10.
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spousePermanentlyIncapacitatedboolean optionalIncapacitated by reason of mental or physical infirmity from maintaining themself, per Helpsheet note 10.
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taxpayerSurnamestring requiredPersonal identifier; handle as sensitive data.
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taxpayerFirstNamestring requiredPersonal identifier; handle as sensitive data.
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ppsnstring requiredPersonal identifier; handle as sensitive data. Your PPSN, e.g. 1234567FA.
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taxpayerDateOfBirthdate requiredPersonal identifier; handle as sensitive data.
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taxpayerGenderenum optionalPersonal identifier; handle as sensitive data. As offered on the form, which lists two options; not independently confirmed whether a third option exists on the live ROS service (see VERIFICATION.md).
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spouseOrCivilPartnerSurnamestring optionalPersonal identifier; handle as sensitive data. Required only when basisOfAssessment is joint_assessment.
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spouseOrCivilPartnerFirstNamestring optionalPersonal identifier; handle as sensitive data. Required only when basisOfAssessment is joint_assessment.
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spouseOrCivilPartnerPpsnstring optionalPersonal identifier; handle as sensitive data. Required only when basisOfAssessment is joint_assessment.
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spouseOrCivilPartnerDateOfBirthdate optionalPersonal identifier; handle as sensitive data. Required only when basisOfAssessment is joint_assessment.
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dateOfDeathOfSpouseOrCivilPartnerdate optionalState only if your spouse or civil partner died during 2025.
Self-employed income (Panel B)
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hasSelfEmployedIncomeboolean optionalGate for Panel B (Self-Employed Income). Not itself a numbered form line; modelled to express the panel's conditional applicability.
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selfEmployedTradeOwnerenum optionalRequired only when hasSelfEmployedIncome is true.
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descriptionOfTradestring optionalYou must clearly describe the trade, business, or profession. Required only when hasSelfEmployedIncome is true.
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assessableNetProfitnumber optionalThe net profit (adjusted for any non-allowable add backs) for your accounting period ending in 2025. In EUR. Required only when hasSelfEmployedIncome is true.
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withholdingTaxCreditnumber optionalCredit for withholding tax deducted during the accounting period (the basis period for 2025), if the accounting period does not end on 31 December. Do not include Relevant Contracts Tax. In EUR.
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incomeAveragingElectionenum optionalFarmers' income-averaging election for this period: elect_in = elect for income averaging; elect_out_temporarily = temporarily elect out of averaging for a year it would otherwise apply; withdraw = withdraw from income averaging altogether; none = not applicable.
enum: none | elect_in | elect_out_temporarily | withdraw -
shareFarmingTradeboolean optionalInsert X if this trade relates wholly or in part to Share Farming.
PAYE / benefit-in-kind / pensions (Panels D and E)
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hasPayeIncomeboolean optionalGate for Panels D and E (PAYE / BIK / Pensions). Not itself a numbered form line.
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payeIncomeRecipientenum optionalRequired only when hasPayeIncome is true.
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payeIncomeSourceTypeenum optionalYou must select one of the listed source-of-income categories. The source form lists this as a lettered checkbox group ((a) Employment, (i) Pension - Employment pension, and others); not every letter's label was legible from the extracted text (see VERIFICATION.md), so this enum records only the categories independently confirmed. Required only when hasPayeIncome is true.
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grossPayFromEmploymentnumber optionalPay in respect of employment, e.g. gross pay less any superannuation contributions allowable for income tax purposes. In EUR. Required only when payeIncomeSourceType is employment.
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allowableEmploymentExpensesnumber optionalExpenses claimed here must have been wholly, exclusively, and necessarily incurred in the performance of your employment duties (e.g. running costs where you use your own car for work). Cannot exceed PAYE income. Not including expenses already claimed through Real Time. In EUR.
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employerRefundOfPriorEmploymentTaxboolean optionalInsert X if true. A refund of PAYE made by Revenue itself (rather than by an employer) is recorded separately in payeTaxRefundedDuringYear.
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payeTaxRefundedDuringYearnumber optionalAny repayment of PAYE tax made to you between 1 January 2025 and 31 December 2025 by the Revenue Commissioners that relates to the 2025 year of assessment. In EUR.
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payeTaxUnderpaidPriorYearsnumber optionalAny amount of tax underpaid for earlier year(s) that has resulted in your 2025 tax credits being reduced (see your Tax Credit Certificate). In EUR.
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socialWelfarePensionAmountnumber optionalTotal of all other taxable social welfare payments, including Carer's Allowance paid by the Department of Social Protection and Social Welfare pensions (basic amount plus any adult-dependant increase). In EUR.
Foreign income (Panel F)
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hasForeignIncomeOtherThanPensionsboolean requiredIf true, the helpsheet directs you to file online via ROS or complete the full Form 11 instead of Form 11S — Form 11S only models foreign pension income.
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foreignPensionAmountnumber optionalThe gross amount of foreign pensions received. In EUR.
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foreignPensionReliefClaimednumber optionalAmount of relief claimed (e.g. under a double taxation agreement) on the foreign pension. In EUR.
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foreignPensionCountrystring optionalRequired only when foreignPensionAmount is greater than zero.
length: 0–60
Irish other income and exempt income (Panels G and H)
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irishDepositInterestDirtnumber optionalIncludes Irish Government Stocks, Exchequer Bills, and other loans and investments arising in the State. In EUR.
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irishOtherIncomeGrossnumber optionalGross amount of Irish income where tax was not deducted at source and is not shown elsewhere on the return. In EUR.
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irishOtherIncomeTaxDeductednumber optionalAmount of tax deducted from the amount at irishOtherIncomeGross. In EUR.
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rentARoomGrossIncomenumber optionalGross Rental Income received in 2025 for room(s) in a 'Qualifying Residence' under the Rent-a-Room Relief scheme, where below the annual exempt limit. Income from occasional-visitor guest accommodation is not exempt. In EUR.
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childcareServicesGrossIncomenumber optionalGross income (before expenses) for 2025 from the provision of Childcare Services, where below the annual exempt limit. In EUR.
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childcareExemptionElectedboolean optionalCompleting this line is an election for exemption for 2025 and must be made on or before 31 October 2026. Required only when childcareServicesGrossIncome is greater than zero.
Charges, deductions, and personal tax credits (Panels I and J)
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maintenancePaymentsNotDeductednumber optionalPayments made by a separated or divorced person for the benefit of a spouse or civil partner under a legally enforceable arrangement (e.g. a Deed of Separation or Rule of Court), excluding any amount in respect of children, where tax was not deducted. In EUR.
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homeCarerTaxCreditClaimedboolean optionalThe maximum credit for 2025 is reduced by one half of the home carer's own income above a threshold; no credit is due once that income exceeds the upper limit.
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homeCarerIncomenumber optionalThe home carer's own income for the year, used to taper the Home Carer Tax Credit. Required only when homeCarerTaxCreditClaimed is true. In EUR.
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employeeTaxCreditClaimedboolean optionalAvailable to employees and non-proprietary directors taxed under PAYE, and to individuals receiving an Irish or other-EU-Member-State social welfare/security pension, or Irish residents working abroad under a PAYE-type system. Insert an X even if your employer already applies the credit through payroll.
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earnedIncomeTaxCreditClaimedboolean optionalFor self-employed individuals and proprietary directors ineligible for the Employee Tax Credit.
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blindPersonsTaxCreditClaimedboolean optionalYou or your spouse/civil partner were blind at any time during 2025.
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assistanceDogTaxCreditClaimedboolean optionalFor an individual who requires a trained guide dog or assistance dog. A supporting statement from the supplying organisation is required with the first claim.
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dependentRelativeTaxCreditClaimedboolean optionalFor maintaining a dependent relative. No relief is due once the relative's income exceeds the annual limit, or if another person claims this credit in full.
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tuitionFeesPaidnumber optionalQualifying tuition fees paid in the 2025 academic year (the year of study commencing on or after 1 August 2025) to Approved Colleges for Approved Courses or Approved Training Courses. Excludes registration, administration, and exam fees. In EUR.
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rentTaxCreditClaimedboolean optionalFor rent paid for private rented accommodation.
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rentPaidAmountnumber optionalTotal rent paid for the tenancy the Rent Tax Credit is being claimed for. Required only when rentTaxCreditClaimed is true. In EUR.
Self-assessment and declaration (Panel P)
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totalIncomeForPeriodnumber optionalTotal income for 2025 before deductions or allowances. In EUR.
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incomeTaxChargeablenumber optionalIncome Tax chargeable after taking account of any deductions, reliefs, and allowances. In EUR.
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uscChargeableSelfnumber optionalUniversal Social Charge chargeable for you. In EUR.
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uscChargeableSpousenumber optionalUniversal Social Charge chargeable for your spouse or civil partner, recorded separately from your own. In EUR.
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prsiChargeableSelfnumber optionalPay Related Social Insurance chargeable for you. In EUR.
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prsiChargeableSpousenumber optionalPay Related Social Insurance chargeable for your spouse or civil partner, recorded separately from your own. In EUR.
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totalTaxChargeablenumber optionalThe sum of Income Tax, USC, and PRSI chargeable. In EUR.
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taxPayableBeforeAdjustmentnumber optionalTax payable for the period, computed by reducing tax chargeable by any tax credits due, before taking account of any refund or offset of tax withheld at source already made by Revenue. In EUR.
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refundOfTaxWithheldAtSourcenumber optionalAny refund of tax withheld at source already made by Revenue (e.g. an interim refund of Professional Services Withholding Tax). In EUR.
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taxPayableAdjustednumber optionalTax payable, adjusted for any refund or offset of tax withheld at source already made by Revenue. In EUR.
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lateFilingSurchargeAppliesboolean optionalIf filing after 31 October 2026, a late-filing surcharge (5% of tax liability if submitted within two months, otherwise 10%) applies and must be included in the self-assessment.
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localPropertyTaxSurchargeAppliesboolean optionalFailure to meet Local Property Tax filing/payment obligations results in a surcharge (an increase to the self-assessment of 10%, capped once LPT is brought up to date).
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preliminaryTaxPaidnumber optionalThe amount of preliminary tax paid for 2025. In EUR.
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balanceOfTaxPayablenumber optionalBalance of tax payable for this period, if any. In EUR.
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balanceOfTaxOverpaidnumber optionalBalance of tax overpaid for this period, if any. In EUR.
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expressionOfDoubtstring optionalA facility under Section 959P TCA 1997 to indicate a genuine doubt about the application of the law, or the tax treatment, of a specific matter in the return. Not for general comments; identify the amount of tax in doubt.
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repaymentIbanstring optionalPersonal identifier; handle as sensitive data. Bank account IBAN, used only to make a repayment of tax due to you; no withdrawal is made from this account by Revenue unless you separately authorise a Single Debit Authority.
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repaymentBicstring optionalPersonal identifier; handle as sensitive data. The Bank Identifier Code paired with repaymentIban.
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declarationSignedboolean requiredYou must sign the declaration on page 1 of the form to confirm the return is correct and complete; the exact declaration wording was not independently confirmed from the extracted PDF text (see VERIFICATION.md), so this field records the act of signing rather than quoting an exact statement.
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signatureDatedate requiredThe date you signed the declaration.
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capacityOfSignatorystring optionalIf you are signing on behalf of someone else (e.g. as an executor or under Enduring Power of Attorney), state the capacity in which you are signing.
length: 0–80
Verification record
This file is the source-review record for this document version, per the manual-source-review-v1 practice.
Current claim
status:draftverification.method:manual-source-review-v1verification.lastVerifiedAt:2026-07-01
The document was derived directly from the official 2025 Form 11S PDF and its companion helpsheet PDF. The full field-by-field comparison the practice requires against the live ROS Form 11 online screens (Procedure step 2) has not been completed, so this remains draft, not verified.
Sources examined
- Document
(id, version):ie/revenue/self-assessment-tax-return-form11s/1.0.0 - Spec version: GovSchema
0.3.0 - Authority: Office of the Revenue Commissioners ("Revenue").
- Primary source: https://www.revenue.ie/en/self-assessment-and-self-employment/documents/form-11s.pdf — the fillable "Income Tax Return and Self-Assessment for the year 2025, Form 11S" PDF, fetched directly (no access block) and its text extracted from the PDF's compressed content streams (zlib-inflated,
Tj/TJoperators parsed directly — the same technique recorded in a prior authoring session's memory notes for PDFs without apdftotext/OCR toolchain available). - Secondary source: https://www.revenue.ie/en/self-assessment-and-self-employment/documents/form11s-helpsheet.pdf — the companion "2025 Tax Return - Helpsheet - Form 11S", fetched and extracted the same way. Used for panel-letter context, line-number cross-references, and prose explaining several boxes the bare form PDF does not itself gloss (e.g. Home Carer Tax Credit tapering, the Expression of Doubt facility, Local Property Tax surcharge).
- Retrieved / reviewed: 2026-07-01.
- Reviewer: GovSchema Engineering (Standards Engineer — initial authoring source review).
What was confirmed against the source
| Source element | Field(s) | |---|---| | Panel A civil status, dependent children, incapacitation, PPSN/DOB/gender for self and spouse/civil partner | civilStatus, personalCircumstancesChangedIn2025, civilStatusChangeDate, previousCivilStatus, basisOfAssessment, dateOfMarriageOrCivilPartnership, numberOfDependentChildren, selfPermanentlyIncapacitated, spousePermanentlyIncapacitated, taxpayerSurname, taxpayerFirstName, ppsn, taxpayerDateOfBirth, taxpayerGender, spouseOrCivilPartnerSurname, spouseOrCivilPartnerFirstName, spouseOrCivilPartnerPpsn, spouseOrCivilPartnerDateOfBirth, dateOfDeathOfSpouseOrCivilPartner | | Panel B self-employed trade, Line 108 assessable net profit, Line 121 withholding tax credit, income-averaging elections | hasSelfEmployedIncome, selfEmployedTradeOwner, descriptionOfTrade, assessableNetProfit, withholdingTaxCredit, incomeAveragingElection, shareFarmingTrade | | Panel D Line 222 gross pay, Line 223 source-of-income category, Line 224(c) employer refund, Line 240(b) allowable expenses | hasPayeIncome, payeIncomeRecipient, payeIncomeSourceType, grossPayFromEmployment, allowableEmploymentExpenses, employerRefundOfPriorEmploymentTax | | Panel E Line 233 PAYE tax refunded, Line 234 PAYE tax underpaid, Line 245 taxable social welfare payments | payeTaxRefundedDuringYear, payeTaxUnderpaidPriorYears, socialWelfarePensionAmount | | Panel F foreign pensions and the "file a full Form 11 instead" gate for other foreign income | hasForeignIncomeOtherThanPensions, foreignPensionAmount, foreignPensionReliefClaimed, foreignPensionCountry | | Panel G Line 402 DIRT-deducted deposit interest, other Irish income gross/tax-deducted | irishDepositInterestDirt, irishOtherIncomeGross, irishOtherIncomeTaxDeducted | | Panel H Line 415(a) Rent-a-Room, Line 416 childcare-services exemption election | rentARoomGrossIncome, childcareServicesGrossIncome, childcareExemptionElected | | Panel I Line 502 maintenance payments | maintenancePaymentsNotDeducted | | Panel J Lines 515(a), 516, 517, 518, 519, 520, 526, 534 — named personal tax credits | homeCarerTaxCreditClaimed, homeCarerIncome, employeeTaxCreditClaimed, earnedIncomeTaxCreditClaimed, blindPersonsTaxCreditClaimed, assistanceDogTaxCreditClaimed, dependentRelativeTaxCreditClaimed, tuitionFeesPaid, rentTaxCreditClaimed, rentPaidAmount | | Panel P Lines 936(a) through 936(i), late-filing and LPT surcharges, bank details, signature | totalIncomeForPeriod through capacityOfSignatory (see schema for the full Panel P field set) |
What is NOT independently confirmed (out of scope)
- Panels C (Irish Rental Income) and L (Capital Gains) are entirely out of scope. Both are per-property/per-asset repeating schedules (Form 11S Lines 204-217 for rental; a free-form asset-description table for gains). The v0.3 flat field model has no repeating-group construct (GSP-0009), the same limitation already recorded for
gb/companies-house/company-incorporation-in01(additional directors/subscribers) andus/ca/dmv/vehicle-title-transfer(notarized lien-release path). The helpsheet itself directs anyone with such income to the full Form 11 in any case. - The exact lettering of some Panel A sub-boxes. The PDF text-extraction technique used here (zlib-inflate + direct
Tj/TJparsing, since nopdftotext/OCR tool is available in this environment) recovers word-level text reliably but not always the precise sub-box letter a given phrase sits under, where the source form itself uses closely-spaced parenthetical letters (e.g.(a)(b)(c)). Field names and descriptions were written from the surrounding prose rather than a quoted box letter in those cases. - The full lettered source-of-income category list at Line 223. The helpsheet states the categories are "(a), (g), (h), (i) or (j)" but only "(a) Employment" and "(i) Pension - Employment pension" were legibly recovered from the form PDF itself;
payeIncomeSourceType's enum is therefore a reasonable reconstruction (employment/occupational_pension/social_welfare_pension/other), not a verbatim transcription of all five categories. A future review pass should re-derive this enum against the live ROS Form 11 screens, which render each category as a labelled checkbox. - The exact declaration statement text. "YOU MUST SIGN THIS DECLARATION" was recovered as a heading, but the declaration's own attestation wording was not confirmed, so
declarationSignedmodels the act of signing without adocuments[]attestationentry quoting exact text (unlike other schemas that do quote a confirmed statement). - Panel H "(a)/(c)" Single Person Child Carer Credit and the two named children (Child 1/Child 2) fields. These exist on the form but were judged a fixed-cardinality-of-two composite the current field model would either flatten awkwardly or under-represent; left out of scope pending a richer composite-value model (GSP-0009 tracks this generally).
- Health expenses (Line 541) and Non-Routine Dental Expenses. Present on the form under Panel L's page but not modelled — reachable only alongside the already-out-of-scope Capital Gains panel on that page, and not independently re-confirmed as belonging to a separate, in-scope panel.
- Whether a third gender option exists on the live online ROS service. The PDF form itself offers only "Male" / "Female"; not independently checked against the authenticated online flow.
Time-versioning and the edition axis (flagged spec gap)
Form 11S is genuinely time-versioned — Revenue reissues a fresh edition every tax year with year-specific content (the 2025 edition here; a "2025 Form 11S" watermark appears throughout the source PDF) — the same shape as gb/hmrc/self-assessment-tax-return-sa100 and us/irs/individual-income-tax-return-1040, both of which use the edition axis (GSP-0005). However, spec v0.3's edition.scheme enum is closed to us-tax-year / gb-tax-year / award-year (SPEC.md §5.7) — none of which is correct for Ireland, whose tax year is the plain calendar year (like us-tax-year's shape) but is not the United States. Reusing us-tax-year for an Irish document would be structurally fine but semantically misleading to a consumer keying off scheme name.
Rather than either (a) mislabeling the scheme, or (b) unilaterally extending a closed, one-way-door enum (SPEC.md explicitly marks §5.7 as settled only by maintainer sign-off, per GSP-0005's own header), this document is published at the plain, non-edition registry path (registry/ie/revenue/self-assessment-tax-return-form11s/1.0.0/schema.json) for this cycle. A future tax year would therefore require a MAJOR version bump rather than a coexisting edition — an honest but real compromise flagged for correction once the scheme vocabulary is generalized.
See spec/proposals/0019-generalize-edition-scheme-calendar-tax-year.md for the proposal recommending a jurisdiction-neutral edition scheme addition, and the GOV-430 issue thread for the routing to the Founding Engineer/CEO.
Scope and jurisdiction notes
- Form 11S is Revenue's own simplified substitute for Form 11, issued to a chargeable person Revenue has determined has "straightforward tax affairs," not a form an applicant chooses freely — this document models the substitute form as received, consistent with the source's own framing.
- Conditional requiredness is expressed with
requiredWhen(GSP-0013), targeting spec v0.3. hasForeignIncomeOtherThanPensionsis modelled asfieldRole: eligibilitywith ato: nullexit transition, since atrueanswer means the applicant should be using the full Form 11 instead, not this document.
Path to a verified claim (next step)
To advance to status: verified, a reviewer applies manual-source-review-v1 Procedure step 2 against the live ROS Form 11 online screens (the panels the helpsheet says apply to a Form 11S filer), resolves the ambiguous-lettering and category-enum items above, and records the outcome here — shipping a new schema version if discrepancies are found (VERSIONING.md §3, immutability).
Re-verification
Per the practice's Cadence, nextReviewBy is set to 2027-01-01 (6 months), and in any case before the 2026 tax year's edition of Form 11S is published, since the source content itself changes annually.
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