National Insurance Contributions (NICs) Changes From 6 April 2025, the following changes to employer NICs will take effect: Due to the increase in the Employment Allowance, some smaller businesses will pay less Employers National Insurance next year For example, if you you will have no Employer’s NICs to pay. Example: Employee Annual Salary: £24,000 NICs…
With the tax year ending on April 5th, now is the crucial time for dental professionals to take action to maximise their tax savings and plan effectively for the new tax year. Contribute to a pension Contributing to a pension is a tax-efficient strategy as you get immediate tax relief on the contributions, For Self…
This is a guide to help dentists understand how the tax system can help you increase the size of your donation and obtain tax relief for yourself. Tax incentives for charitable giving have long played a crucial role in encouraging individuals and businesses to support philanthropic causes and can also ensure that more money goes…
If you’re working as a self employed dentist, you may be aware that you can set up your own limited company – but why would you want to, and how could it help save you money? You can read our article here which compares self-employment to having a limited company. Here, we show 2 examples…
Updated: 24-11-2022 for Autumn Statement Encouraging electric car take-up The last few years have seen dramatic changes in car development. Diesel cars are now known to be bad for air quality. There’s been a lot of negative press coverage, and the tax rates are set to rise for fossil fuel company cars. Sales of new…
Criteria for dentists to claim for a tax-deductible party? With some simple tax planning, it’s easy to incorporate an annual staff event into tax-deductible spending to benefit yourself. You can invite other guests too, including your family, but it must be for the benefit of the staff/employees, not a personal event, e.g. your birthday. The…
If you’re looking to manage your existing practice or set up a squat practice, Dentally and Xero software together is a great cloud solution. Dentally software 100% based in the cloud Dentally is a cloud based dental practice management software that integrates seamlessly with Xero cloud accounting software. With your dental and accounting systems in the…
When you set up a company for your associate dentist income, all payments for your work are paid to the company bank account. Then you’ll need to transfer what you need to your personal bank account. So how much cash can you withdraw from the company for your personal expenses? There are 2 ways of approaching this: 1. Take what I need…
The Chancellor has announced in the budget a reform of how tax relief on pension works, which will help dentists. It makes it far less likely that dentists working in the NHS will face additional tax charges. Since 2016/17, some higher earning dentists have faced very high tax charges because of a restriction on tax…
Your company can give gifts up to £50 in value to its employees, directors and company secretary, tax-free. In other words, you can receive a tax-free gift from your company and reduce your corporation tax bill. This is known as a trivial benefit. Watch out for the restrictions The gift can not be:- a voucher…