Your accounts for last year show a profit and you’re meeting with your fellow directors to decide whether it should be paid out as dividends. As tax will play a major part in your decision what are
the most efficient options?
Published 14.04.2014
Your company is almost ten years old and doing well. You have no intention of retiring yet, but you would like to reap some of the growth in value now. What are your options?
Published 29.04.2015
Pension schemes aren’t the most popular form of investment these days. But directors who own shares in their company are in an ideal position to create a tax-efficient and personalised retirement
fund. How does this work?
Published 18.02.2013
Despite falling inflation, the Bank of England says it won’t rush to reduce interest rates. So, if you need a loan and your company has available cash is it cheaper and more tax efficient to borrow
from it instead of your bank?
Published 01.02.2024
You want to pay yourself in the most tax-efficient way and this usually involves taking dividends, but these can only be paid if your company makes a profit. So what’s the position if you get your
sums wrong and you take too much?
Published 15.07.2013
It’s a couple of weeks until the deadline for declaring benefits in kind to HMRC for 2018/19. How can you use a current year dividend to prevent the resulting tax charge and replace it with a lower
one payable at a later date?
Published 25.06.2019
The signs are that last year was a good one and a bonus seems an appropriate reward. The trouble is there’s not much in the company’s bank account. If there’s an alternative to cash what might the
tax advantages be?
Published 03.02.2014
When you started the business you and your colleagues agreed to share the profits equally, but now one needs more income. You’ve agreed to it provided the others are compensated later. What’s the
best way to do this?
Published 13.02.2015
This year’s accounts show a healthy profit and you want your share of it now, but one of your fellow directors insists he wants to defer indefinitely to keep his tax bill down. Is there something you
can do to keep you both happy?
Published 02.04.2013
On advice from your accountant your businesses are owned by separate companies within a group. As a director of each company what’s the most tax and NI-efficient way to be paid earnings from them?
Published 02.01.2024