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Recent content by chewbacca

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    Tax question

    Or should MyCo make a corporate contribution instead?
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    Tax question

    My concern is that on the basis of my current (contracting) situation I will not be in a position to get HMRC to pay 60% of my pension contributions for some time (as I don't expect to be in the 100-120k taxable income bracket again soon). So it seems to me I should maximise this as a once-off...
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    Tax question

    Yes, fair point and that was why I had not previously seriously considered a divi payment. My aim is to minimise aggregate amount of tax paid by myself and MyCo.
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    Tax question

    Thanks Martin. So it would be better to first increase my taxable income for the year to 120k, so I can make maximum use of the relief by then taking it back down to 100k, rather than just use savings to make the same size SIPP contribution (and leave taxable income at 115k)?
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    Tax question

    I have a tax question that is vexing me: taxable income for year from very good permie stint = £115000 salary from myCo = 0 (living off savings for rest of the tax year) MyCo dividends for tax year 0 What is going to be best: (1) make a contribution to SIPP from personal savings (to get down...
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    Buying Shares - first time, advice needed

    ALL the banks? It's 85k, by the way. Are you buying oil/gas shares? Seems pretty *optimistic* to me.
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    One for the dirty, sofa loving, squirrel bothering spekulants

    but will they be on sale for 50% off by Boxing Day?
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    Cutting out the agent

    So, if "my friend" is working for a client through an agency, at say, 400/day, and the end client wants to renew and is willing to pay the penalty to the agent for re-employing "my friend" directly. The end client has asked how much the day rate for direct contract would be. Obviously agent is...

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