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Accountant who works closely with business owners to understand and align their personal and business goals in the most tax efficient way
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The Top 3 Tax Mistakes I See Business Owners Make (opens the original)
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There are loads of different tax mistakes I see, but these are probably three of the most common ones.And the thing with all three is that they aren’t necessarily complicated.Quite often, it’s just about taking a bit of a step back and actually looking at what you’re doing and why you’re doing it.So, here are my top three.1. Taking money out of your business in the wrong wayThis has got to be one of the biggest ones. Years ago, this was pretty easy.Dividends were generally the clear winner. If y
Your P&L might look great. But is your business actually working for you? (opens the original)
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As much as I love the financials, there are always things more important than the profit and loss account.Things like, how does running that business actually make you feel?Do you wake up full of energy every day?Or do you wake up miserable each day?I think a lot of people would rather have a business that doesn’t make quite as much profit and wake up feeling energised than have a business that makes loads of money but makes them miserable.Then there’s time.Do you have time outside the business
My limited company makes £50,000 a year and I only pay a few grand in tax (opens the original)
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You’ll see versions of this all over the internet.The example normally goes something like this.The company makes £50,000.The owner takes a small salary and then takes the remaining available profits as dividends.They then calculate the personal tax on those dividends and tell you how little tax they’ve paid.And from a personal tax point of view, that figure might be broadly right.But it isn’t the full tax picture.The bit that often gets missed is Corporation Tax.The limited company is a separat
PENSIONS AREN’T JUST ABOUT RETIREMENT (opens the original)
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Trading businesses are always a risk.Every business has a life cycle, and when we talk to clients about risk, one of the things we look at is how we can protect some of the wealth they’ve built up.That could mean diversifying assets, holding cash elsewhere or generally not leaving absolutely everything sitting inside the trading company.One option that sometimes gets overlooked is pensions.Pensions can obviously be very tax efficient.If your limited company makes a qualifying employer pension co
HOW DOES A HOLDING COMPANY ACTUALLY WORK? (opens the original)
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This is one I got asked recently.How do they actually work?So I thought I would explain it in basic terms.Normally, you have an individual who owns shares in a limited company.To keep the example easy, let’s say one person owns 100% of a company called Trading Company Ltd.The structure looks like this:Owner → Trading CompanyWith a holding company structure, the owner effectively swaps their shares in the trading company for shares in a new holding company.You then end up with:Owner →
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