Pension and allowance

[oldgitst]

@oldgitst General is for banter - you are warned before entering this part of the forum. The stuff we post here covers Daily Mail stories, Nick Fritz Monday links and ripping the p*ss out of Suity.

The other parts of the forum are specifically for serious questions like the one you posted.

If you posted this here in the week you would have got more than just me enquiring about your preference for Gladiators and whether you bleed radiators....

Fair do's , I didn't realise ..... Apologies 😀

[mackenzie99d]

OP - when you say you may want to pay a large amount into your wifes pension I assume
your wife is an employee / director of the company? HRMC will need to be satisfied that
the salary / bonuses / pension contribution she receives is commercially reasonable for the work done.
When you have director e.g. yourself, who is the driving force behind the company and generates the
majority of the company income, then that renumeration package including the amount paid as pension is pretty much up to you. Now if your wife has a smaller role than you in generating the companies income but gets paid a much larger renumeration than you then HMRC may question this and most probably not allow it.

[Contreras]

So this would enable a company contribution into a sipp of 40k for myself for this tax year, and 50k 40k for previous on my wife's sipp plus this years allowance of a further 40k ....

Unlikely, unless you can show that salary+pension represents fair remuneration for each of you.

If you were sole director and fee earner then it is easy - whatever the amount (subject to pension limit), it must be fair remuneration seeing as you generated the profit. With two employees HMRC have a point of reference to compare so your plan will not wash unless the wife is also fee earning proportionally to your rate.

Btw, while it's good to DYOR, with the sort of sums you mention there is plenty of scope to screw things up royally. Best have an accountant check things over in light of your circumstances rather than regret it later.

[oldgitst]

OP - when you say you may want to pay a large amount into your wifes pension I assume
your wife is an employee / director of the company? HRMC will need to be satisfied that
the salary / bonuses / pension contribution she receives is commercially reasonable for the work done.
When you have director e.g. yourself, who is the driving force behind the company and generates the
majority of the company income, then that renumeration package including the amount paid as pension is pretty much up to you. Now if your wife has a smaller role than you in generating the companies income but gets paid a much larger renumeration than you then HMRC may question this and most probably not allow it.

Thanks for that.
Yes, she is an employee 45% shareholder....
BUT obviously isn't as involved as myself and gets paid basic wage same with dividend top up....
So maybe bad idea this lol.
IF she did have contributions for the rollback allowance, that obviously dwarfs mine as I cannot use the rollback.... would it be considered her remuneration of rollback being so high I should be awarding myself the same amount inside of the single current tax year ?
cheers
og

[mackenzie99d]

You need to get proper advice and you're running a bit short of time. In my opinion giving your wife a bigger pension contribution than yourself will cause problems as HMRC will consider it unreasonable. Have a search on the internet. I had a quick look and found this..

Adviser confirmation | Scottish Widows Extranet

[oldgitst]

You need to get proper advice and you're running a bit short of time. In my opinion giving your wife a bigger pension contribution than yourself will cause problems as HMRC will consider it unreasonable. Have a search on the internet. I had a quick look and found this..

Adviser confirmation | Scottish Widows Extranet

cheers, just had a read and has helped a lot, I think I could open a SIPP pay in the full allowance for 2015-2016 and do the same for my wife but at a slightly reduced amount.

Reading between the lines, the other halves rollover allowance probably isn't going to be feasible to use without it being a bit iffy....

cheers
og

[IR35 Avoider]

If the wife is doing admin for a one man company the I reckon almost any contribution however small will be considered excessive remuneration and not allowed as a deduction for Corporation tax.

On the other hand, if she is charging billable hours to clients, then anything up to the amount she has actually brought in should be OK (assuming it also within allowances.)

(Sorry, hadn't read the link, which looks like it is saying the same thing.)