As a business owner, your focus may simply be “pay myself a salary, take dividends, pay the tax bill.” However, once the business starts to build, you may find that …
Dividends: Saving tax is all in the timing
When it comes to saving tax, timing really is everything. If you are a limited company owner, the timing of when you take profits from your company by paying yourself …
Something Every Small Business Should Know: Illegal Dividends
For limited company owners, dividends are often a great method to take out your hard-earned profit in a more tax efficient way. However, the process of giving yourself money via …
How often can you pay dividends from your limited company?
For a new small business owner, how to access the funds you need to live on yourself is a crucial question! One of the primary ways you can take money …
Do I need to pay tax on dividends?
This question about paying tax on dividends comes up all the time with clients. Here’s the short answer: Yes. You do need to pay personal income tax on your dividends …
Dividends: What you need to know
Dividends are a very tax efficient way to be paid, if used in the right way. Well-timed dividends, as mentioned in other posts can save you tax and how they …
Should Your Startup Go Limited? The Tax Savings, the Risks, and the Bit Most Owners Get Wrong
A limited company may sound daunting to set up, but once you understand the basics, it can make a lot of business sense. In this article, we’ll look at what …
The Secret HMRC Memo Every Small Business Owner Needs to Read
Every month, HMRC quietly publishes policy papers and consultations that could reshape how the self-employed people or small businesses might pay their tax. While technically public for all to see, …
The most tax efficient year of your life: increase income without working harder
Most small business owners try to improve their finances by doing more: More hours More stress More customers (And hopefully) More turnover However, one of the biggest improvements to your …
Last Minute Savings for 2025-26 Tax Year
With the end of the tax year fast approaching, it’s time to check if you can grab some of the last minute tax savings on offer. The team at Heelan …
The Budget 2025: Small Business Special
Another year, another budget speech. This one, however, might go down in history as the most overhyped and anticipated budgets of all time, not helped by the chancellor pushing back …
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