You’ve borrowed some cash from your company as a stop-gap. But when the time comes to pay the money back finances are tight. How can you turn this tricky situation into a tax advantage?
Published 27.05.2009
Salary sacrifice schemes can reduce your tax and save your company NI costs. But depending on the amount and type of income you receive the savings can vary widely. How can you get the best result?
Published 17.10.2012
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
Dividends might be the most tax-efficient way to take income from your company but they can only be paid out of profits. This means for a recently started business they probably aren’t an option.
What’s the next best thing?
Published 01.05.2012
You’ve thought about taking up a new hobby - flying for example. However, your existing draw from the company is all accounted for. Could your company pay for it instead? What’s your best option?
Published 16.01.2008
You and your fellow directors have a great deal of money invested as shares in your company. These pay you dividends but your company receives no tax deduction. Would swapping dividends for interest
be a more tax-efficient option?
Published 11.11.2011
Where you borrow money interest-free from your company, you can land yourself with a tax bill. But a friend, who’s also a director, tells you that he avoids this by paying interest to his company.
Will this also work for you?
Published 31.10.2011
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
Wouldn’t it be nice to have your own place in the sun and escape there every so often when the going gets tough. And wouldn’t it be even better if there were tax relief on the running costs; the idea
is not as far fetched as you might think.
Published 06.07.2010
You’ve heard that your company could provide you with tax-free vouchers to meet your (ever-increasing) childcare costs. If this is really the case, how much money could you save?
Published 13.09.2006