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Top Tax Tip

Are you paying your spouse a tax efficient salary? Tip: The salary must be sensible and reflect the amount of work done - and must actually be paid.

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Joke of the Week



The joke this week was courtesy of Mike Reynolds, from MR Solutions Ltd!

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Quote Of The Week


You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.



Thomas J. Watson  



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Congratulations to Jason Rudland,from Advanced Internet Marketing, for winning last week's BrainTeaser; the answer was 100 miles.

This week's BrainTeaser will be sponsored by Heather Godfrey of CM Databases.



Three travellers are sitting around a fire, and are about to eat a meal. One of them has five small loaves of bread, the second has three small loaves of bread.

The third has no food, but has eight coins. He offers to pay for some bread.

They agree to share the eight loaves equally among the three travellers, and the third traveller will pay eight coins for his share of the eight loaves.

All loaves were the same size. The second traveller (who had three loaves) suggests that he be paid three coins, and that the first traveller be paid five coins. The first traveller says that he should get more than five coins. Is he right?

How should the money be divided up?


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Structuring your Business In The Most Tax-Efficient Way

It is all too common for Small to Medium Business owners to get swallowed up by their own company; you have all heard the term 'working in the business, not on the business', and I can certainly relate to that.

So who gets time to look at the nitty-gritty stuff? Especially things like company structure; there are many ways to ensure that your company is running in the most tax-efficient way. For example, if you are a Sole Trader, how do you know that you wouldn't pay less tax if you became a limited company, or even brought in a partner, child/children, or a spouse?

The Revenue, as you know, have very strict guidelines we all have to adhere to; the question is, are you missing a trick? The rules are there to be followed of course, however, you can use them to your advantage.

In most circumstances, a limited company owner will pay on average 10% less tax than a sole trader.

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