A summary of the lastest tax guides & checklists which cover the topic of tax planning for directors.
Quarterly updates:
Companies > Running the business
Tax-efficient profit extraction (companies)
This checklist is designed to be used for a new company or pre-year-end or year-end tax planning for a company and its owner.
Personal service companies & tax
This tax guide examines the key tax issues for the owners of personal service companies.
Settlement anti-avoidance rules (family companies)
An overview of how the tax anti-avoidance settlement legislation applies to family companies.
Directors > Tax-efficient remuneration
The guides in this section explore how funds can be extracted from a company as cheaply as possible.
Do I pay a salary or dividend?
This guide explores the tax-planning points and pitfalls of using dividends to create a tax-efficient pay package.
Shifting your income to save tax
This guide explains the planning points and pitfalls of splitting your income with your spouse or other family members.
Directors & the National Minimum Wage
Will I save more tax if I trade via a company?
A handy guide if you are starting in business, or thinking of incorporating an existing business.
Pensions: planning for directors
This guide explains how the new pension rules will affect directors and will interact with other benefits and incentive schemes. There are also worked examples to show how to make a pension contribution in specie, and advice on how to work within the pension restriction anti-forestalling rules.
Directors > What expenses can I claim?
This section contains a series of guides which show directors how they can legitimately maximise their expense claims without upsetting the tax authorities.
Directors > Essential know-how
Loss relief (income tax) on disposal of shares
A guide that explains the workings of this relief, illustrating the problems which potentially restrict relief for company owners.
Employment status: directors
This guide explains how employment law and tax law interact and the effect that this has on director's tax.
