Timeline for Creating a limited company in the UK with which to invest in real estate/stock market

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May 15, 2018 at 21:28	comment	added	webdevduck		There are tax efficient means to liquidate a company and extract the assets, but it cannot be predicted if they will still be available in years to come - the government could change the rules.
May 15, 2018 at 21:22	comment	added	webdevduck		It is likely that a limited company is the most tax efficient means for you to operate as a contractor, provided you are not caught by IR35, primarily down to not needing to pay National Insurance as long as you structure your payments correctly. If you put 100% of your profits directly from the company into a SIPP or similar, your tax liability would be close to zero. If you choose not to use a pension wrapper, I am sceptical that investing using profits retained within the company would be beneficial. Assuming the investments didn't tank, you would still need to extract them eventually.
May 15, 2018 at 17:42	comment	added	user139019		Tax-free allowance for capital gains tax is interesting if I plan to either sell some of the investments or collect any dividends paid by the companies whose stocks I own (or in other similar situations). But if that's not my intention -- I plan to just buy-and-hold and reinvest dividends -- would the tax-efficiency of contracting through a limited company offset the tax-efficiency of investing individually or through a pension wrapper?
May 15, 2018 at 16:05	history	answered	webdevduck	CC BY-SA 4.0