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How are dividends taxed?

Published in Shares and shareholders on February 28, 2019 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 taxation: higher rate and additional rate taxpayers

Published in Shares and shareholders on February 28, 2019 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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Dividend waiver: what you need to know

Published in Shares and shareholders on September 13, 2017 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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Taxation of dividends received before 6 April 2016

Published in Shares and shareholders on April 5, 2016 by Philip Newman

For dividends received before 6 April 2016 the dividend allowance (covered in our article How are dividends taxed?) does not apply. Instead such dividends were treated as paid net of a tax credit. This article provides an…

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(Another) Inform Direct product update – June 2015

Published in Inform Direct news on June 23, 2015 by Henry Catchpole

Even with summer approaching, there’s no taking it easy for the Inform Direct development team. We’ve kept them busy adding more features to our celebrated company secretarial platform. We may have no suntanned developers, but…

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Tags: company records, Inform Direct, company types, dividends, CICs

What are dividend vouchers?

Published in Shares and shareholders on March 14, 2015 by Johnathan Korchak

A limited company can distribute its profits via dividends to its shareholders. Once you’ve identified that there are sufficient profits to distribute as dividends, you must then minute the decision to declare a dividend.…

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