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Taxation of dividend income


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Taxation of dividend income


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STOP PRESS: At Spring Budget 2024, the Chancellor announced that the remittance basis would 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. 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.

Dividend income is taxed at dividend income tax rates, which increased by 1.25 percentage points with effect from 6 April 2022. Note that the tax treatment of dividend income in the hands of UK residents is different

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