Understanding the benefits of tax planning for individuals and companies helps both individuals and companies minimize tax liability. This is an important activity that companies and individuals who are earning their income from salary, vocation, profession, and others. It is very important for budgetary efficiency. It also enhances the smooth running of an organization. There are different types of taxes to pay. These include value-added tax, capital gain tax, education tax, company income tax, stamp duty, and others.
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What does tax planning mean?
This is the legal way of minimizing the amount of money to be paid as tax by considering all the loopholes in the tax law such as allowances, allowable deductions, exemptions, and time limit to pay tax. It is needed for different purposes such as businesses, properties, retirement, and others. This can be a short-term, long-term, purposive, and permissive tax plan. Short term tax plan involves planning to reduce the tax to pay in a year and a long-term tax plan covers more than a year. A purposive tax plan involves the plan for the achievement of investment purposes and a permissive tax plan involves a tax plan that is permissible under tax law.
Benefits of tax planning for businesses
If you are the owner of a business whether small, medium and large company, it is important because it helps to attain your business goals. This helps business owners to minimize the company income tax liability by reducing taxable income. It helps to be in control of when to pay your business taxes. It can be used to avoid double taxation in the case of international companies and it can also be used to enjoy different tax benefits like tax holidays depending on the types of business.
Importance of tax planning for individuals
It helps individuals in the following ways:
- Planning helps to minimize tax liability, therefore enhances savings.
- It enhances the smooth functioning of the financial plan.
- This helps to make rational investment decisions.
- It promotes economic stability.
- It stimulates economic growth and development.
Conclusion
There are many ways in which both individuals and companies can benefit from tax planning. Therefore, taxpayers should consider tax planning to minimize their tax liability because it helps tax-saving investments as well enhance saving of money which can be used for different life-enhancing purposes.
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Afeez is one of the founding partners of Marasas Consulting limited. He consults for both individuals and entities in the area of accounting, management, audit, tax, and investment. He has a wide range of experience both online and offline which allows him to provide relevant and timely professional advice and assistance to business owners with their accounting, tax, management, audit, and investment plans.
Afeez is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and a member of the Nigerian Institute of Management (Chartered). He is a certified Google analyst and strategist. He earned his Bachelor degree in Management and Accounting from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, and earned an ordinary national diploma in Accountancy from The Polytechnic of Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. He earned certification in “Excel Crash Course” and “Reading of Financial Statement” from Corporate Finance Institute, Canada.
Afeez is dedicated to helping clients achieve business success by helping them to establish solid and sound accounting, tax, and financial processes.