24 Sep 2025

Paying yourself right: smarter strategies for owner-managed businesses – watch our video

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For owner-managed businesses (OMBs), remuneration isn’t just about drawing a salary, it’s about shaping your financial future.

Business owners have always been in the position of being able to choose how to remunerate themselves, with a view to optimising the tax efficiencies that are available to them. However, following the National Insurance (NI) changes in April 2025, it is worth revisiting the basis of remuneration planning – how you pay yourself and extract your income from your company – to check if the position has changed and tax savings can now be achieved.

In our new video, OMB Tax Specialist Anne Eager and Employment Taxes Director Stephen Baker take you through:

  • Employer’s National Insurance Contributions (NICs): increases from April 2025, other key changes and their potential impact on OMBs and employers
  • Timing: why you shouldn’t wait to explore tax planning
  • Optimum strategy: how our advisers look at the business and the individual together, as part of a complete remuneration planning exercise that looks beyond tax
  • Avoiding pitfalls: how we help OMBs to consider lesser-known factors in remuneration planning – including lenders, pension contributions and R&D tax relief – that non-tax professionals and AI might overlook
  • PAYE, cashflow and budgeting: the impact of an OMB owner’s move from monthly salary to dividends, and the mindset shift it requires
  • Corporation tax liability: understanding how salary and dividends differ, and the overall tax implications of your plans

To learn more about remuneration planning, and how our service can benefit you and your company, get in touch with Stephen Nicholls or your usual BKL contact, or send us an enquiry.

Stephen Nicholls

Tax Manager

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