‘Tax charge on taking a loan from a close company’ is the title of the latest newsletter from Stockport’s Booth Ainsworth Accountants.
If you have an overdrawn loan account with your company, there is a tax charge on the company unless the loan is cleared within 9 months of the end of the period to which accounts are prepared.
Nasty anti-avoidance measures have been introduced to stop companies avoiding the tax charge. In particular when the loan is at least £15,000 and is repaid just before the 9 month deadline but with the intention of re-borrowing from the company, and that intention is carried out, the amount repaid is ignored. That results in a tax charge arising as if the loan had not been repaid in time.
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