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What is a corporate shareholder?

Published in Shares and shareholders on May 30, 2023 by David Hill

A corporate shareholder is a company, partnership, trust or business entity that owns shares in another company. It is perhaps easiest to remember by simply stating that a corporate shareholder is a non-human shareholder.…

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Dividend taxation: higher rate and additional rate taxpayers

Published in Shares and shareholders on April 25, 2023 by Philip Newman

Having already looked at the main rules on how dividends are taxed and how those affect basic rate taxpayers. The tax on dividends can be more complex where the dividends become subject to higher rate or additional rate tax. In…

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How are dividends taxed?

Published in Shares and shareholders on April 25, 2023 by Philip Newman

Dividends are the return paid to shareholders from the profits made by a company. Partly because of potential tax advantages, the owners of small companies will often choose to pay themselves a combination of dividends and salary…

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Dividend waiver: what you need to know

Published in Shares and shareholders on April 20, 2023 by Peter Platt

You’ve decided to share your profits with your shareholders by issuing a dividend, but what if not everyone wants to take it?…

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