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In any case, it was concluded that consideration should be put towards reducing the Annual Exempt Amount from its level of £12,300 in the tax year 2022-23. The Annual Exempt Amount was reduced to £6,000 for the tax year 2023-24, and further reduced to £3,000 for the tax year 2024-25.
[23] [30] The Unit Trust of India converted some units to tax-free bonds. [31] The taxation rate for mutual funds was originally 12.5% [23] but was increased to 20% [23] for dividends distributed to entities other than individuals with effect from 9 July 2004. [32]
Each person has an income tax personal allowance, and income up to this amount in each tax year is free of tax. Until the 2027/28 tax year, the tax-free allowance for individuals with income less than £100,000 is £12,570. [38] Any income above the personal allowance is taxed using a number of bands:
The dividend allowance was reduced to £2,000 from 6 April 2018, [8] [9] and then to £1,000 for the April 2023 to April 2024 tax year. [10] A further reduction down to £500 was announced in the Budget Statement in November 2022. [11] Taxation legislation refers to the dividend allowance as "the dividend nil rate". [12]
When calculating the tax on dividends for tax year 2024, it’s important to distinguish between ordinary dividends and qualified dividends, as they are taxed differently.
As of the latest available information, the country has several income tax brackets, with rates ranging from 15% to 23%. For example, as of the tax year 2022, the first tax bracket applies to income up to 48,840 CZK per month, with a tax rate of 15%.
For earnings between £100,000 - £125,140 employees pay the 40% higher rate income tax + removal of tax-free personal allowance + 2% NI (effectively a 67% marginal rate). The top tax rate on dividend income is 39.35%.
After 2024 changes equity sales are taxed at 12.5 percent if held for more than 1 year and 20 percent if held for less than 1 year. Indexation benefit from home capital gains has been removed and the tax rate has been bought down to 12.5 percent from 20 percent.