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• Tax on dividends: what a UK director pays above the allowance

  Tax on dividends for a UK director: the £500 allowance, the three rates from 6 April 2026, how the band is found, and a worked example.

• Dividend allowance 2025/26 and 2026/27: the £500, and how it sits with your salary

  The dividend allowance is £500 for 2025/26 and 2026/27, £1,000 in 2023/24: how it sits with the personal allowance and what a director can take tax free.

• Dividend tax brackets from 6 April 2026, band by band

  The dividend tax brackets for 2026/27: 10.75, 35.75 and 39.35 percent above the £500 allowance, and how a director finds the band.

• Limited company dividends: how to pay yourself properly

  Limited company dividends for the director: the profit test, the board minute and voucher, how often they can be paid, and what goes wrong.

• How to calculate dividends in a limited company: the company's sum and the shareholder's

  How to calculate dividends in a limited company: the profit ceiling, the per share arithmetic, the shareholder's tax, a waiver and a dividend in specie.

• Salary and dividend calculator for UK directors: what each pound costs

  Salary vs dividends for a UK director in 2026/27: what each costs company and director, why the usual split is what it is, and the calculator.

• Director salary calculator: tax and NI on a director's pay, with the dividends on top

  A director salary calculator for 2026/27: income tax and NI on the salary, the dividend tax on top, and the thresholds that set a director's pay.

• How is corporation tax calculated in the UK? From accounts profit to the tax due

  How corporation tax is calculated: the profit for tax, the adjustments, 19 and 25 percent with marginal relief between, and the worked example.

• Marginal relief corporation tax: how the rate climbs from 19 to 25 percent

  Marginal relief for corporation tax: the 19 and 25 percent rates, the £50,000 and £250,000 limits, the 26.5 percent marginal rate, and the calculator.

• When is corporation tax due, and how to pay it

  Corporation tax is due nine months and one day after the period ends for profits up to £1.5 million; instalments above, the reference, the activation code.

• Corporation tax penalties: late filing, late payment and the appeal

  Corporation tax penalties: £200 one day late, £200 more at three months, 10 percent of unpaid tax at six and twelve months, interest, and the appeal.

• What is a dormant company, and how to make one dormant

  A dormant company has no significant transactions for Companies House and no trade for HMRC: the two tests, what it still files, and making one dormant.

• Dormant company accounts and the dormant company tax return

  Dormant company accounts: what they contain, how to file them, when HMRC still wants a company tax return, and the penalties for filing late.

• VAT threshold 2026: when a limited company must register

  The VAT threshold is £90,000 of taxable turnover over any rolling 12 months: what counts, the 30 day test, and what a company does when it crosses it.

• Does a limited company have to be VAT registered? Only past the threshold

  A limited company must register for VAT above £90,000 of taxable turnover and may below: how to register, the cost, the late penalty, and VAT beside CT.

• Limited company expenses list UK: what the company can pay

  The limited company expenses list: what is allowable for corporation tax, personal-account costs, use of home, trivial benefits, and what is never allowed.

• The s455 tax rate on a directors loan, and how the charge comes back

  The s455 tax rate is 33.75 percent of a director's loan still owed nine months after the year end, reclaimable once repaid; the official rate too.

• Limited company tax rates 2026/27, and what a company pays

  Limited company tax rates for 2026/27: corporation tax with marginal relief, employer's NI at 15 percent, dividend tax by band, and self assessment.

• Company tax calculator UK: what it has to work out

  What a UK company tax calculator has to work: corporation tax with marginal relief, employer's NI, dividend tax by band, and the total across both.

• Stamp duty for limited company property purchases, and the 5 percent surcharge

  Stamp duty for a limited company buying residential property: the bands plus the 5 percent company surcharge, the 17 percent rule, and the calculator.