While there’s a hint of light at the end of the lockdown tunnel, business will take a while to recover. In the meantime you’re taking minimal income from your company, but should you consider
increasing this to maximise tax efficiency?
Published 13.05.2020
Your company is doing well and so you plan to increase what you take from it. The question is, what’s the most tax-efficient way to do it? Usually dividends are the best option, but might there be a
more tax-efficient alternative?
Published 28.10.2014
You’re aware that sharing your company’s income with your spouse can save tax but aren’t sure how to do this in practice for the maximum tax advantage. What tips or traps should you be aware of?
Published 07.04.2022
Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) tax breaks are worth at least 50% of your investment, but your money will be tied up for some time. How long before you can get your hands on it and what
should you do with it then?
Published 20.09.2012
As a director shareholder of a company you have more opportunities than most to organise your income tax affairs efficiently. With that in mind, and as a new tax year starts on 6 April, how should
you approach it?
Published 16.03.2018
At the end of your company’s last financial year your director’s loan account was in the red. Your accountant has suggested writing off what you owe to avoid a charge on the company, but is this the
most tax-efficient option?
Published 01.05.2019
As a general rule, dividends are the most tax efficient way to get income out of your company. But these can only be paid where you’re making a profit. So what will the Taxman say if you pay
dividends from a loss-making company?
Published 29.11.2012
If you want to transfer your company’s trading premises or other property it owns into your name, you can expect a hefty tax bill to go with it. What steps can you take to stop it costing you the
Earth?
Published 02.11.2010
Coronavirus has played havoc with dividends as a profit extraction method for owner managers of some companies and may have put them at a tax disadvantage for some time to come. How might a similar
situation be avoided in future?
Published 01.06.2021
You owe money to the company of which you’re a director and majority shareholder. A colleague has suggested that your company could waive the debt instead of paying you salary. That sounds reasonable
but is it tax efficient?
Published 12.06.2023