A Recent History of Corporation Tax Rates #AskAMS

Since 2006/07, for small companies the Corporation Tax Rate has effectively increased from 19% to 25.07%. Here is a list of the changes.

Whereas from 2006/07 to 2017/18, the main Corporation Tax Rate (for more profitable companies) actually reduced from 30% to 19% (so for institutional shareholders or foreign owners of big companies, there has been an 11% drop in the tax rate).

In the last 12 years or so, large companies have benefitted massively from tax cuts.  In contrast, small company owners have recently been hammered by the dividend tax.  It does seem to be the case that recent Chancellors have been very favourable to big business - but very unhelpful to small UK businesses!