Director’s Salary and Dividend Planning Letter

Recommend a tax-efficient mix of salary and dividends for an owner-managed company, explain the rules and risks, and record the director’s decision – with a board minute and dividend voucher.

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Director’s Salary and Dividend Planning Letter

About this document

What it’s for

A letter to the director-shareholders of a small owner-managed company recommending how much salary and dividend to take for the tax year, with a thresholds table to update, options for the salary level, a comparison table, the legal rules for dividends, and a decision form. A board minute and dividend voucher are included.

When to use it

  • Before the start of each tax year (February to March)
  • When profits, shareholdings or personal circumstances change
  • When a new company starts paying its owners

What’s inside

The document is laid out in the sections below. Each one comes with a plain-English guidance note explaining what it does and what to change.

  • Our recommendation in brief
  • The thresholds that matter
  • Salary
  • Dividends
  • Comparison
  • Other ways to take value from the company
  • Your personal tax

How to complete it

  • Update the thresholds table from gov.uk for the tax year concerned
  • Run your own calculations for the client and complete the comparison table
  • Choose the salary option and delete the others

Key points to check

  • Distributable reserves must support every dividend
  • Whether the Employment Allowance is available to the company

Our templates are professionally structured starting points for UK businesses, not legal advice. For anything complex, unusual or high-value, have your final version checked by a solicitor.

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