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Take dividends while you can For personal and family companies, a tax efficient strategy for extracting profits is to take a small salary and to extract any further funds needed outside the company in the form of dividends. However, while there are no restrictions on takin...
Expenses and benefit returns for 2020/21
Expenses and benefit returns for 2020/21 Expenses and benefit returns P11D and P11D(b) for 2020/21 need to be filed by 6 July 2021. Meeting this deadline is important as penalties may be charged for returns that are filed late. Form P11D A form ...
Dealing with problem debt If you are struggling with problem debt, you are not alone. More than eight million people in the UK are reported to have financial difficulties. It can sometimes feel that there is no end in sight, but there are solutions. The...
Making a negligible value claim
Making a negligible value claim Where assets that have become worthless, it may be possible to make a negligible value claim, allowing a loss to be realised which can be set against chargeable gains to reduce the capital gains tax liability. This claim can be made either o...
National Insurance Contributions and Company Directors
National Insurance Contributions (NIC) and company directors Special rules apply to company directors when it comes to calculating their Class 1 National Insurance liabilities. Why the rules? Directors, particularly of personal and family compan...
Amend your PSA for Covid-19 related benefits
Amend your PSA for Covid-19 related benefits A PAYE Settlement Agreement (PSA) enables an employer to meet the tax on certain benefits and expenses on the employee’s behalf. This can be useful to preserve the goodwill nature of a benefit. Not all benefits ar...
No retained profits – Can you extract cash to cover your living expenses?
What should you do if your business doesn’t have enough profits to pay a dividend? If you operate through a limited company, for example as a personal or family company, you will need to extract funds from your company in order to use them to meet your personal bills. Th...
Freezing of allowances and thresholds
Freezing of allowances and thresholds To help meet some of the costs incurred in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic, the Chancellor announced in his 2021 Budget that a number of allowances and thresholds will remai...
Reporting expenses and benefits for 2020/21
Reporting expenses and benefits for 2020/21 Employers who provided taxable expenses and benefits to employees during the 2020/21 tax year will need to report these to HMRC, on form P11D...
Reduced rate of VAT To help the hospitality and leisure industry recover from the impact of the first national lockdown, a reduced rate of VAT of 5% was introduced for a limited period from 15 July 2020. The reduced rate of VAT was originally to apply until 12 January 202...
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