Joe is the managing director and 100% shareholder of OK-Joe Ltd. He has always withdrawn the entire profits of the company as director’s remuneration, but given a recent increase in profitability he wants to know whether this basis of extracting the profits is beneficial.
For the year ended 5 April 2016, OK-Joe Ltd’s taxable total profits, before taking account of director’s remuneration, are ￡65,000. After allowing for employer’s class 1 national insurance contributions (NIC) of ￡5,141, Joe’s gross director’s remuneration is ￡59,859.
The figure for employer’s NIC of ￡5,141 is after deducting the ￡2,000 employment allowance.
Required:
Calculate the overall saving of tax and NIC for the year ended 5 April 2016 if Joe had instead paid himself gross director’s remuneration of ￡8,000 and net dividends of ￡45,600.
Notes:
1. You are expected to calculate the income tax payable by Joe, the class 1 NIC payable by both Joe and OK-Joe Ltd, and the corporation tax liability of OK-Joe Ltd for the year ended 5 April 2016. 2. You should assume that the rate of corporation tax remains unchanged.