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Taxation of dividend income


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Taxation of dividend income


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STOP PRESS: The remittance basis is to be abolished from 6 April 2025, although this only applies to foreign income and gains arising on or after that date. The remittance basis rules still apply to unremitted income and gains arising before that date but remitted later. The legislation is included in Finance Bill 2025. For more details, see the Abolition of the remittance basis from 2025/26 guidance note.

Introduction

A dividend is a distribution of profit by a company to its shareholders.

A dividend is not only a payment in cash. It can be the issue of new shares in exchange for forfeiting the right to a cash payment (a stock dividend). For more detail, see the Cash dividends and Non-cash dividends guidance notes.

For more on dividends from overseas resident companies, see the Foreign dividends guidance note.

Note that the Scottish and Welsh income tax rates and bands only apply to the non-savings non-dividend income (commonly referred to in practice as non-savings income) of Scottish and Welsh taxpayers. As far as the dividend income

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