Spring Budget 2017: Government slashes dividend tax allowance
From April 2018

The Government has announced it is to cut the dividend tax allowance from £5,000 to £2,000, with the reduction taking effect from April 2018.
In a Budget where he left pension tax relief well alone, Philip Hammond focused his attention on the self-employed and small business owners in an effort to make the tax system "fairer" and more "equal"...
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