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A Tips & Advice book about...
In a nutshell
This book shows how to increase your net income and stay off HMRC’s radar through proper tax planning. It features legally safe ways to save tax on all your dealings as a director. Instead of focusing on schemes, it explains in simple to follow steps how to claim all your entitlements. This new edition has been fully updated with the latest tax rates and deductions.
In detail
In recent years the government has taken an increasingly aggressive approach to tax-saving schemes and arrangements. To ensure HMRC doesn’t run off with the lion’s share of your hard-earned income, our team of experts have put together this book. It covers:
- Tips to make the best use of remuneration strategies such as
- Salaries, dividends and benefits
- Pensions
- Company loans
- And much more...
- Vital strategies to minimise
- Income tax
- National Insurance
- Capital gains tax
- Inheritance tax
In this book you’ll find all the key facts and see how to use them through worked examples. It will help you exploit the loopholes and reduce the amount of tax payable.
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Company directors that want to:
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- Increase their net income
- Make the best use of remuneration strategies
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1. Salaries
1.1. A director’s perspective
1.2. Minimum salary, the NMW and the NLW
1.3. Salary waiver
1.4. Spouse’s/family members’ salary
1.5. Year-end bonus
1.6. National Insurance employment allowance
1.7. Key points
2. Benefits and expenses
2.1. A director’s perspective
2.2. Tax relief for the company
2.3. School fees
2.4. Moving home
2.5. Cheap-rate or interest-free loans
2.6. More than one company car
2.7. Is a van cheaper?
2.8. Computers and other IT equipment
2.9. Childcare vouchers
2.10. Travel and subsistence costs
2.11. Trivial and minor benefits
2.12. Key points
3. Dividends and distributions
3.1. A director’s and shareholder’s perspective
3.2. Timing payments of dividends
3.3. Dividend waivers
3.4. Separate classes of shares
3.5. Dividend income for a spouse or partner
3.6. Dividend income for children
3.7. Key points
4. Pension scheme strategies
4.1. The director’s perspective
4.2. The tax-advantaged pension scheme
4.3. Corporation tax relief for your company
4.4. Salary sacrifice option
4.5. Contribution without earnings
4.6. Ownership of the company’s assets
4.7. Pension fund borrowings summary
4.8. Contribution for a spouse
4.9. Key points
5. Financing the company
5.1. The director’s perspective
5.2. Claiming tax relief on interest on loans to buy shares in or lend money to your company
5.3. Company borrows to acquire assets for your use
5.4. Interest on shareholder loans to the company
5.5. Seed enterprise investment scheme
5.6. Key points
6. Capital allowances
6.1. A director’s perspective
6.2. Timing
6.3. Assets qualifying for a 100% tax allowance
6.4. Key points
7. Buying another company
7.1. The director’s perspective
7.2. Assets or shares?
7.3. Allocation of purchase consideration
7.4. Hive-downs
7.5. Tax due diligence
7.6. Tax indemnities
7.7. Losses
7.8. Borrowing costs
7.9. Stamp duty
7.10. VAT
7.11. Buy-to-sell shares
7.12. Termination payments
7.13. Deferred consideration
7.14. Key points
8. Reorganising share ownership
8.1. The director’s perspective
8.2. Gifts of shares to spouse
8.3. Gifts of shares to family members, employees, etc.
8.4. Gift holdover relief
8.5. Employment tax charges
8.6. Purchase own shares
8.7. Key points
9. Succession planning
9.1. The director’s perspective
9.2. Preserving business property relief
9.3. Passing shares to the next generation
9.4. Pre-owned assets tax (POAT)
9.5. Business premises personally owned
9.6. Key points
10. Selling your company
10.1. The director’s perspective
10.2. Timing
10.3. Sale of assets and trade
10.4. Sale of shares
10.5. IHT
10.6. Warranties and indemnities
10.7. Anti-avoidance
10.8. Key points
11. Winding up your company
11.1. The director’s perspective
11.2. Capital distribution
11.3. Availability business asset disposal relief
11.4. Last minute dividend?
11.5. Phoenix companies
11.6. Key points
12. Going offshore
12.1. The director’s perspective
12.2. Your own offshore accounts/assets
12.3. Your company’s offshore interests
12.4. Costs and compliance
12.5. Offshore jurisdictions
12.6. When selling your UK company
12.7. Key points
13. Trusts
13.1. The director’s perspective
13.2. The trusts tax regime
13.3. Use of trusts
13.4. Tax implications of creating a trust
13.5. Types of trust
13.6. Key points
14. Income tax planning
14.1. Introduction
14.2. What’s tax free?
14.3. Getting your allowances
14.4. Avoiding the high income child benefit tax charge
14.5. Children’s income
14.6. Overseas income and offshore bonds
14.7. Independent taxation
15. Capital gains tax planning
15.1. Introduction
15.2. What capital gains are not taxable?
15.3. How does capital gains tax work?
15.4. Business asset disposal relief (previously entrepreneurs’ relief)
15.5. Losses and gains
15.6. How to avoid the bed and breakfast rules
15.7. Switching relief between homes
15.8. Selling your garden
15.9. CGT and death
15.10. Further timing issues
15.11. Enterprise investment scheme (EIS) and holdover (deferral) schemes
15.12. Seed enterprise investment scheme (SEIS)
16. Inheritance tax planning
16.1. Introduction
16.2. How much is tax free?
16.3. The nil rate band
16.4. The seven-year rule and taper relief
16.5. Gifts with reservation
16.6. Keeping value outside your estate
16.7. Skipping a generation
16.8. Two nil rate bands for spouses
16.9. Properly drafted wills
16.10. Changing someone’s will after they have died
16.11. The use of trusts
16.12. Reduce your IHT bill by giving to charity
17. National Insurance planning
18. Year-end tax planning
18.1. Income tax
18.2. National Insurance
18.3. Capital gains tax
18.4. Inheritance tax
19. Appendix
19.1. The Scottish tax rates
A Tips & Advice book about...
In a nutshell
This straightforward guide explains how to take care of your tax responsibilities as a director easily and safely, always with one clear goal in mind: to save you time and money. Whether it's to file your VAT return online or claim a corporation tax deduction, this book will show you the correct way to do it.
In detail
Running your own company means getting involved in a wide range of tax issues. You need to be up to speed with the current tax rules and be able to put them into practice. This book will help you handle day-to-day and more complex tax procedures. It explains how to:
- Make the best use of HMRC's many online services
- Claim tax reliefs in the right way and at the right time
- Enter information correctly on your personal and business tax returns
- Make various tax-saving elections
Plus, we've included a stack of ready-to-use elections and draft letters to speed up the process and make your life even easier.
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Company directors that want to:
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- Cut their tax bill
- Save time
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Chapter 1 - HMRC online services
1. How to sign up to HMRC online services for the first time
1.1. Where do you start?
1.2. Completing HMRC online registration and enrolment
1.3. Starting to use HMRC services for the first time
1.4. Signing in
2. How to obtain a new activation code for HMRC’s online services
2.1. What are activation codes?
2.2. Lost or expired activation code
2.3. Obtain a new activation code
2.4. Timing
3. How to add a new HMRC online service to your company’s registration
3.1. Procedure for adding services
3.2. Timing
4. How to sign up and use HMRC’s Business Tax Account
4.1. Who can use HMRC’s Business Tax Account?
4.2. Timing
Chapter 2 - Dividends, salary, benefits and employment expenses
1. How to pay a director’s bonus
1.1. Bonus procedure
1.2. Tax position
1.3. Timing
2. How to claim a tax deduction for business expenses
2.1. Who can claim?
2.2. Method
2.3. Timing
3. How to elect for the alternative method of calculation of a beneficial loan
3.1. Election for the precise method
3.2. HMRC override
3.3. Timing
4. How to create a salary sacrifice arrangement
4.1. Procedure
4.2. Timing
4.3. HMRC clearance
5. How to keep a mileage record
5.1. Recommended information to include
5.2. Other information that would be useful
6. How to pay an interim dividend
6.1. Procedure
6.2. When is an interim dividend paid for tax purposes?
6.3. Timing
7. How to pay a final dividend
7.1. Procedure
7.2. When is a final dividend paid for tax purposes?
7.3. Timing
8. How to waive a dividend
8.1. Procedure for waiving
8.2. Tax consequences
8.3. Timing
9. How to report a beneficial loan for directors and employees
9.1. Reporting requirements
9.2. What to report
9.3. Timing
Chapter 3 - PAYE and payroll and construction industry schemes
1. How to register your company as an employer for PAYE
1.1. Registration process
1.2. Information needed
1.3. Timing
2. How to register as a CIS contractor
2.1. Registration procedure
2.2. Timing
3. How to set up PAYE basic tools
3.1. Procedure to download and set-up
3.2. Timing
4. How to set up a new employee without a P45
4.1. Procedure
4.2. Timing
5. How to set up a new employee with a P45
5.1. Procedure
5.2. Timing
6. How to make an RTI report without an NI number
6.1. Procedure if you don’t know an NI number
6.2. Timing
7. How to make PAYE, CIS and NI deductions
7.1. When is this payable to HMRC?
7.2. Payment procedure
7.3. Timing
8. How to pay HMRC advisory benchmark allowances for UK subsistence
8.1. Procedure
8.2. Who can use benchmark expenses rates?
8.3. Are declarations required for HMRC?
8.4. Timing
9. How to pay scale rate expenses for overseas travel and subsistence
9.1. What’s the procedure?
9.2. Who can use scale rate expenses?
9.3. What evidence do employees need to produce?
9.4. Do scale expenses have to be entered on P11Ds?
9.5. How do you calculate how much you can pay?
9.6. Timing
10. How to pay personal incidental overnight expenses relating to business travel
10.1. Reimbursing incidental expenses
10.2. Records
10.3. Reporting
10.4. Timing
11. How to make a tax and NI-free advance of expenses
11.1. Procedure and conditions
11.2. Timing
12. How to pay HMRC’s approved flat rate use-of-home allowance
12.1. Conditions and procedure
12.2. Timing
13. How to report expenses and benefits for directors and Pay Class 1A NI
13.1. Reporting procedure
13.2. Declaration and Class 1A report
13.3. Timing
14. How to reclaim overpaid NI
14.1. Claim or checking procedure
14.2. Timing
15. How to apply the annual earnings period for directors
15.1. Calculation procedure
15.2. The standard annual earnings period
15.3. The alternative method
15.4. RTI requirements
15.5. Timing
Chapter 4 - VAT
1. How to register for VAT online
1.1. Registration options
1.2. Timing
2. How to register for VAT offline
2.1. Registration process
2.2. Timing
3. How to update your company’s VAT records with HMRC
3.1. Notification options
3.2. Timing
4. How to change your company’s VAT status
4.1. Change of legal entity
4.2. Timing
5. How to apply for group VAT registration
5.1. Application procedure
5.2. More information
5.3. Timing
6. How to apply for divisional VAT registration
6.1. Application procedure
6.2. More information
6.3. Timing
7. How to apply to use the VAT flat rate scheme
7.1. Application procedure
7.2. More information
7.3. Timing
8. How to opt out of the VAT flat rate scheme
8.1. Procedure to opt out
8.2. Timing
9. How to join the VAT cash accounting scheme
9.1. Procedure to join
9.2. Timing
10. How to use a VAT retail scheme
10.1. Joining a retail scheme
10.2. Leaving a retail scheme
10.3. Point of sale scheme
10.4. Apportionment schemes
10.5. Direct calculation schemes
10.6. Sector-specific schemes
10.7. Bespoke schemes
10.8. Timing
11. How to adopt the VAT annual accounting scheme
11.1. Procedure for opting
11.2. More information
11.3. Timing
12. How to adopt a special method for VAT partial exemption
12.1. Procedure
12.2. More information
12.3. Timing
13. How to opt to tax a property (make rent etc. liable to VAT)
13.1. Procedure
13.2. Timing
14. How to withdraw the option to tax
14.1. Procedure - within six months of making the option
14.2. Procedure - after the option has been in place for 20 years
14.3. Timing
15. How to use the VAT flat rate fuel charge
15.1. Applying the flat rate
15.2. Timing
Chapter 5 - Corporation tax
1. How to register a company with HMRC
1.1. Notification procedure
1.2. Timing
2. How to notify HMRC that your company is dormant
2.1. Notification procedure
2.2. Timing
3. How to notify HMRC that your company is active
3.1. Notification procedure
3.2. Timing
4. How to file company accounts with HMRC
4.1. Filing company accounts options
4.2. Before you can file corporation tax returns
4.3. Timing
5. How to amend a corporation tax return
5.1. Amendment procedure
5.2. Timing
6. How to claim trading losses against trading income in later years
6.1. Claim procedure
6.2. Timing
7. How to claim pre-incorporation losses against company income
7.1. Claim procedure
7.2. Timing
8. How to claim a deduction for pre-trading expenses
8.1. Procedure for claiming
8.2. Timing
9. How to claim trading losses against current year’s income
9.1. Claim procedure
9.2. Timing
10. How to claim trading losses against total income of earlier years
10.1. Claim procedure
10.2. Timing
11. How to claim losses when a business ceases - terminal loss relief
11.1. Claim procedure
11.2. Timing
12. How to claim group relief for losses
12.1. How to claim group relief
12.2. Timing
Chapter 6 - Capital allowances
1. How to make a short-life asset election
1.1. Conditions and procedure
1.2. Timing
2. How to claim the annual investment allowance (AIA)
2.1. Procedure
2.2. Timing
3. How to elect for capital allowances on equipment fixed to buildings
3.1. Procedure
3.2. Timing
4. How to elect to use tax written down values on transfer of a business
4.1. Procedure
4.2. Timing
Chapter 7 - Directors’ personal tax
1. How to register for self-assessment as a director
1.1. Registration process
1.2. What next?
1.3. Timing
2. How to amend your tax code
2.1. Timing
3. How to claim higher rate relief for pension contributions
3.1. Occupational pension scheme contributions
3.2. Personal pension plan contributions
3.3. Retirement annuity contracts
3.4. Timing
4. How to reduce your self-assessment payments on account
4.1. Procedure
4.2. Timing
5. How to claim an income tax refund
5.1. Claim process
5.2. How to get refunds repaid
5.3. Timing
6. How to claim tax relief for homeworking expenses
6.1. Procedure
6.2. Timing
7. How to claim interest on a business loan
7.1. Claiming the interest
7.2. Making a claim before the tax year has ended
7.3. Making a claim after the tax year has ended
7.4. Other conditions
7.5. Timing
8. How to defer Class 1 NI contributions
8.1. Deferment procedure
8.2. Information required
8.3. What happens next year?
8.4. Timing
9. How to use unused pensions tax allowance from earlier years
9.1. Claiming unused pensions allowance from earlier years
9.2. Timing
10. How to declare and pay a pensions annual allowance charge
10.1. Payment procedure
10.2. Calculating the charge
10.3. Timing
11. How to elect to be taxed on joint income
11.1. Procedure
11.2. Timing
12. How to claim enterprise investment scheme (EIS) relief
12.1. Procedure
12.2. Timing
13. How to carry back tax relief for the EIS
13.1. Procedure for EIS shares issued in 2022/23
13.2. Procedure for EIS shares issued in 2021/22
13.3. Timing
14. How to claim seed enterprise investment scheme (SEIS) relief
14.1. Procedure
14.2. Timing
15. How to carry back tax relief for the SEIS
15.1. Procedure for SEIS shares issued in 2022/23
15.2. Procedure for SEIS shares issued in 2021/22
15.3. Timing
Chapter 8 - Buying and selling a business
1. How to claim business asset disposal relief
1.1. Procedure for claiming relief
1.2. Timing
2. How to claim negligible value CGT relief for your company’s shares
2.1. What is a negligible value claim?
2.2. Who can claim?
2.3. What are the time limits?
2.4. Form of claim
2.5. Claim for an earlier year
2.6. Claim for current tax year
3. How to claim income tax relief for a capital loss
3.1. Procedure
3.2. Timing
4. How to elect for BADR to apply to qualifying corporate bonds
4.1. Procedure
4.2. Timing
5. How to defer (holdover) a capital gain on the transfer of shares in a company
5.1. Procedure
5.2. Timing
6. How to roll over a capital gain following the sale of business assets
6.1. Procedure
6.2. Timing
Chapter 9 - Other claims and procedures
1. How to create a loan agreement with a director
1.1. Procedure
1.2. Timing
2. How to challenge an HMRC assessment ruling or decision for direct tax
2.1. Appealing against a decision or assessment
2.2. Appeal procedure
2.3. How are appeals settled?
2.4. More information
2.5. Timing
3. How to challenge an HMRC assessment ruling or decision for indirect tax
3.1. Appealing against a decision or assessment
3.2. Alternative first step before making an appeal to the First-tier Tribunal
3.3. The review process
3.4. Important note
3.5. More information
3.6. Timing
4. How to complain about HMRC’s services
4.1. Complaints process
4.2. Adjudication
4.3. Parliamentary Ombudsman
4.4. Financial compensation
4.5. Timing
5. How to obtain clearance for a transaction from HMRC
5.1. Procedure
5.2. Timing
6. How to postpone payment of tax relating to an HMRC assessment or decision
6.1. Procedure
6.2. Timing
7. How to pay tax bills without a payslip
7.1. Corporation tax
7.2. Multiple payments by CHAPS
7.3. VAT
7.4. VAT MOSS
7.5. PAYE tax and NI payments
8. How to apply to use HMRC’s alternative dispute resolution (ADR) process
8.1. Who can use ADR?
8.2. Application process
8.3. Is ADR right for you?
8.4. Agreeing to the process
8.5. What effect does ADR have on your dispute with HMRC?
8.6. Timing
9. How to appeal to the First-tier Tribunal
9.1. To access the FTT
9.2. How do you present a case?
9.3. What documents should you have at a hearing?
9.4. Must you be represented?
9.5. Timing
