Limited Company Dividend Voucher

In a Nutshell

Form-filling you'll like to do

In a Sentence

This is one form you'll enjoy being completed, because it's all about cash going from the limited company to your personal bank account.

Dummy Dividend Voucher

My Limited Company Ltd
Burlington Business Park
Hurlingham
York
SW1A 1AA

The Board of Directors of MY LIMITED COMPANY met at BURLINGTON BUSINESS PARK, HURLINGHAM, YORK, SW1A 1AA on 1 MAY 2010 and declared an interim dividend of £10,000 per Ordinary Share in respect the financial year ended 1 APRIL 2010 payable to shareholders registered at the close of business on 1 MAY 2010.

EDWARD SCISSORS (Shareholder Name)
15 Cutting Way
Boscombe
Devon
DD3 4ST

No. of ORDINARY SHARES: 1

DIVIDEND PAYMENT: £10,000

TAX CREDIT: Dividend income at or below the £150,000 higher rate tax limit 32.5%

Signed By:

Limited Company Director

Board

When your limited company makes a profit you access the money by way of a dividend(s) paid to the shareholder(s). The dividend must be recorded in the company's board meeting minutes and presented in the form of a dividend voucher for each shareholder.

A shareholder(s) must keep the dividend voucher for future self-assessment reasons. This document is legal evidence that a dividend has been paid to the named shareholder.

Minutes

Your contractor accountant will draw up the dividend voucher for you. The accountant will also write a minute that advises a dividend has been paid to the shareholder(s).

The board minute will be brief and factually record that a dividend of X for each ordinary share for the given period was paid on a specified date.