
If you run your own limited company, how you pay yourself matters. This planner from AMF Accountancy shows your indicative take-home and total tax for 2026/27 for any mix of salary and dividends – before you decide.
What's inside:
Excel and Google Sheets planner: enter your profit and salary, see Corporation Tax, employer and employee NI, Income Tax, dividend tax and take-home
Compare five salary levels side by side, with the best take-home highlighted
Multiple directors: up to four director-shareholders with their own salaries, shareholdings and other income
Scotland and the rest of the UK, and the new 2026/27 dividend rates (10.75% and 35.75%)
Full workings and a labelled tax rates tab with sources
Read Me guide and a filled-in example
This planner is for you if you're:
A limited company director deciding your salary and dividends for this year
Wondering whether £12,570, £6,708 or no salary works best for you
Running a company with a business partner or spouse as fellow shareholder
Indicative figures for education and planning, not personal tax advice. Student loans, pensions, benefits in kind and IR35 are outside scope. Single-company licence.