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Paying sufficient salary to get a qualifying year for state pension purposes

Salary and State Pension

There are various ways in which profits can be extracted from a personal or family company. A popular and tax-efficient extraction strategy is to pay a small salary and to extract further profits as dividends as long as the company has sufficient retained profits. One of the advantages of paying a salary is to secure … Read more

Is it worth paying voluntary Class 3 NICs?

Man looking pondering a question about whether to pay voluntary Class 3 NICs

The payment of National Insurance contributions is linked to entitlement to the state pension. If sufficient National Insurance contributions of the right type are paid for a tax year, that year counts as a qualifying year for state pension and benefit purposes. A person may also secure a qualifying year if they are awarded National … Read more

Deferring your state pension

Deferring your state pension

If your contributions record is sufficient, you will be entitled to the state pension on reaching state pension age. The age at which you reach state pension age depends on when you were born. To qualify for a full single-tier state pension (set at £168.60 per week for 2019/20, rising to £175.70 per week for … Read more