{"id":1541,"date":"2026-03-25T15:17:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.com\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:19:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:19:47","slug":"dividend-tax-changes-from-april-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/dividend-tax-changes-from-april-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Dividend tax changes from April 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From 6 April 2026, dividend tax rates in the UK are increasing, with the basic rate rising to 10.75% and the higher rate to 35.75%, while the tax-free dividend allowance remains at \u00a3500. These changes mean that taking income as dividends will become less tax-efficient for many company directors and business owners, making it important to review your current income structure and tax planning approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 6 April 2026, dividend tax rates in the UK are increasing, with the basic rate rising to 10.75% and the higher rate to 35.75%, while the tax-free dividend allowance remains at \u00a3500. These changes mean that taking income as dividends will become less tax-efficient for many company directors and business owners, making it important&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/dividend-tax-changes-from-april-2026\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1550,"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions\/1550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalaccountants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}