If you wish to follow the small salary big dividend method of rewarding yourself from your own company, this simple guide can help.
As a matter of routine, your company should prepare its own corporation tax reserve. You will probably need to prepare a personal income tax reserve as well. A company can only pay dividends from the company’s post tax profit. If you have no profit then you can pay no dividends. Do not pay out all of the profit as dividend, only the post tax profit. That means that …

Since the introduction of the Dividend Allowance and the Interest Allowance in 2016, compounded by the new Scottish rates of tax in 2017, there is no easy way to work out the optimum pattern of salary and dividends for directors of small UK companies.
Here’s a rough guide to what you might want to pay yourself and what sort of personal income tax reserve you may need to keep. Remember, that this is in addition to your company preparing its own corporation tax reserve. A company can only pay dividends from …

Your UK VAT registered business can get a refund of EU VAT for most goods and services you buy for your business.

You cannot normally reclaim GST and VAT from countries outside the EU. Nor can you reclaim EU VAT if the expense is not wholly and exclusively for the purposes of your business.
Moreover:

you need a proper VAT receipt from the actual supplier, addressed to your business, showing the rate of VAT charged and the exact amount of VAT charged
a “proforma invoice” is not a proper VAT receipt
what you can reclaim …

This article has moved here.

This article has moved here.