Directors Salary and Dividend 2018/19
The current tax year is from 6 April 2018 to 5 April 2019 – ensure you know the changes to directors salary and dividends.
For the 2018/19 tax year the personal allowance is £11,850.
If your only income through PAYE was your company director salary, then any additional salary above £11,850 would be taxed at 20%, and once you hit the higher tax band of £46,351 (including the personal allowance), any additional salary would be taxed at 40%. Check out the tax bands on HMRC website.
With regards to dividend income, from 6th April changes have been made, and a new dividend allowance has been implemented.
For the 2018/19 tax year, dividends are taxed as follows:
- The dividend allowance means that an individual’s first £2,000 of dividends are tax free
Over and above this £2,000 the dividend income is taxed as follows:
- If you have any un-used personal allowance then that element is tax free
- Any dividends up to £46,350 for 17-18 attract a tax charge of 7.5%
- Dividends above £46,350 are charged at 32.5%
- Additional rates of tax will apply and personal allowance will be reduced if you declare more than £100,000 in the tax year
Let’s look at a couple of scenarios below:
- If your only source of income is dividend, you could receive £13,850 of tax free dividend income in the 18-19 tax year. This is made up of your £11,850 personal allowance and the £2,000 dividend allowance. Any dividend withdrawn from £13,850 to £46,350 will be taxed at 7.5% and any dividend from £46,350 to £100,000 will be taxed at 32.5% without losing your personal allowance (please see chart below for illustration purposes).
- You pay yourself the lowest possible salary to avoid national insurance but enough to be entitled to state pension (£702 per month, £8,424 per year) tax free. Then pay yourself a dividend of £5,426 tax free. This takes advantage of the £11,850 personal allowance and the £2,000 tax free dividend income. By putting through £8,424 as salary, you also receive a 19% corporation tax deduction for the expense through your Company. Any dividend withdrawn from £13,850 to £46,350 will be taxed at 7.5% and any dividend from £46,350 to £100,000 will be taxed at 32.5% without losing your personal allowance (please see chart below for illustration purposes).
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Example 1 |
Example 2 |
|
Gross salary |
£ 8,424 |
£0 |
Dividends |
£37,926 |
£46,350 |
Total Gross Income |
£46,350 |
£46,350 |
Less: Tax on dividends |
£ 2,437.5 |
£ 2,437.5 |
Net cash in pocket |
£43,912.50 |
£43,912.50 |
Corporation tax saved on gross salary |
£ 1,600.56 |
£ 0 |
Theoretical cash in pocket |
£45,513.06 |
£42,862 |
*these figures assume there are no additional sources of income.
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