January is the month when individuals and businesses are required to pay tax.<\/p>\n
If your business is a limited company, and your tax year ends 31 March 2017, any corporation tax due for that year is payable 1 January 2018. Unlike your self-employed counterparts – see below – no payments on account are required for 2017-18.<\/p>\n
If you are a self-employed business person, sole trader or in partnership, any underpayment of self-assessment tax, Class 2 and 4 NIC (for 2016-17) will be due for payment 31 January 2018. On the same date, tax payers in this category will need to make a possible payment on account for the tax year 2017-18. This is based, initially, as 50% of your actual liability for the previous year, 2016-17.<\/p>\n
Which is why it’s worth taking a moment to consider what your financial results may be for 2017-18. If you consider that your self-employed profits, or other taxable earnings will be lower during 2017-18 (as compared to 2016-17) then you can elect to recalculate the payments on account for 2017-18.<\/p>\n
We should always be on the lookout for ways to protect our hard-earned cash resources, which is why undertaking this simple review may help to take the sting out of the January tax payment.<\/p>\n
You will also be glad to know, that if the results of this exercise show that your profits or taxable income have increased during 2017-18 (compared to 2016-17) it is not necessary to increase your payments on account for 2017-18. However, self-assessment taxpayers in this position should be aware that any shortfall between payments on account made and the actual liability for 2017-18 will still be payable, albeit later, on 31 January 2019.<\/p>\n
If you feel that your earnings will be lower for 2017-18 we can help you crunch the numbers to see if a valid election to reduce your tax payments next year is a viable option. Every little helps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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