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What types of share can a company have?

Published in Shares and shareholders on May 9, 2019 by Henry Catchpole

Most companies only ever have one type of share (or class of share). The shares are commonly called ordinary shares and will be the ones the company was incorporated with. The typical rights that go with ordinary shares (and…

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What are preference shares?

Published in Shares and shareholders on April 18, 2019 by Johnathan Korchak

Most shares issued by companies are ordinary shares, but they are just one of the different types of shares available. Preference shares, sometimes also called ‘preferred shares’ or just ‘prefs’, can also be useful both to…

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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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What should be included in a shareholders’ agreement?

Published in Shares and shareholders on October 10, 2018 by Henry Catchpole

We’ve written separately to explain what a shareholders’ agreement is and when it’s appropriate to have one in place. This article sets out some of the practicalities of putting a shareholders’ agreement in…

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What is a shareholders’ agreement?

Published in Shares and shareholders on September 26, 2018 by Philip Newman

When setting up a company with family or friends it is easy to assume that nothing can go wrong in the future. You might assume that as you trust one another you do not need to put in place something like a shareholders’…

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