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Dividend tax help please

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AppleCrumble
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Dividend tax help please

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Postby AppleCrumble » January 18th, 2020, 4:36 pm

Using the GOV.UK page as reference it's not clear to me exactly how much dividend tax I may need to pay as unlike their example my total taxable income would cross into the Higher Rate band.

Dividend tax rates:
Basic rate 7.5%
Higher rate 32.5%

Here's an example.

I get dividends outside of my ISA/SIPP totalling £7k.
The dividend allowance is £2k, therefore I pay tax on £5k of dividends.
My other taxable income for year is £48k.
I add £48k to £7k to make my total taxable income £55k - putting me over the £50k threshold and into the higher rate of 32.5% dividend tax.

Would I pay 32.5% tax on the full taxable amount of £5k?

Or

Would I pay 7.5% tax on the first £2k and 32.5% on the remaining £3k?

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Re: Dividend tax help please

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Postby scrumpyjack » January 18th, 2020, 5:35 pm

I think you would pay 32.5% tax on £5,000 of dividends. The 0% rate applies to the first £2,000 of dividends due to the dividend allowance.

That's what comes out of the Excel spreadsheet another Lemon wrote last year which worked fine then and I have just adjusted it for the 19/20 allowances etc

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Re: Dividend tax help please

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Postby recklesssaving » January 18th, 2020, 11:17 pm

Would I pay 7.5% tax on the first £2k and 32.5% on the remaining £3k?


You’ll be taxed on this based, fill in the online SA and it’ll work it all out for you.


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