Originally posted by smalldog
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I'd suggest you buy yourself a whole lot more gadgets!!!! 
fair doesnt come into it....If you want to minimise your CT then you should be looking at ways to utilise what would be profit for another purpose....for instance I have just bought a company car, there will be plenty of people who will say "noooo claim mileage", thats all well and good if you do any miles to speak of but I dont, I commute by train and use the car to shuttle around at the weekends running my property business...
Few reasons for putting it thru the company, first I can claim back 50% of the VAT, 100% if purely business miles but wont be so Im being upfront. Secondly if I were to pay the repayments personally then I would need to increase my PAYE and therefore personal tax would go up. Thirdly I can offset the costs of the car (servicing, monthly lease repayment) and depreciation against CT..
So thats an example of a way in which you can effectively reduce your CT burden. That little lot will be about £5k per year of costs that will reduce my operating profit by £5k therefore reducing my CT by £1k...my benefit in kind is £800 a year on the car so Im quids in....and that doesnt include the fact Im not paying the insurance, my company is...
Do some research and look into expenses that can offset CT, its not difficult! Make sure you are expensing correctly and claiming what you should be....
fair doesnt come into it....If you want to minimise your CT then you should be looking at ways to utilise what would be profit for another purpose....for instance I have just bought a company car, there will be plenty of people who will say "noooo claim mileage", thats all well and good if you do any miles to speak of but I dont, I commute by train and use the car to shuttle around at the weekends running my property business...
Few reasons for putting it thru the company, first I can claim back 50% of the VAT, 100% if purely business miles but wont be so Im being upfront. Secondly if I were to pay the repayments personally then I would need to increase my PAYE and therefore personal tax would go up. Thirdly I can offset the costs of the car (servicing, monthly lease repayment) and depreciation against CT..
So thats an example of a way in which you can effectively reduce your CT burden. That little lot will be about £5k per year of costs that will reduce my operating profit by £5k therefore reducing my CT by £1k...my benefit in kind is £800 a year on the car so Im quids in....and that doesnt include the fact Im not paying the insurance, my company is...
Do some research and look into expenses that can offset CT, its not difficult! Make sure you are expensing correctly and claiming what you should be....
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