How do I move money between my UK company and my home country?

Dividends require sufficient distributable reserves and board paperwork, and carry no UK withholding tax, though your home country will usually tax them with credit for any UK tax paid. Salary or fees for UK duties go through PAYE and are taxed as earnings.

Repaying a director's loan that you genuinely made to the company earlier is simply moving your own money back and is not itself taxable, but the loan needs to have been properly recorded from the outset for this to work cleanly.

International transfers from a UK business account can be made by standard bank transfer, SWIFT, or through the same multi-currency providers used for receiving payments, often at better rates than a traditional bank's international transfer service.

Keep board minutes for dividends, payslips for salary, and a loan account ledger for director's loans, because HMRC and your home tax authority may both ask for evidence of what a transfer actually represents.

Our fixed monthly packages for a UK limited company start at £89 plus VAT and run to £169 and £289 plus VAT as bookkeeping, VAT, payroll and reporting are added. One-off filings are sold at fixed prices, and the Companies House fees we pay for you are charged at cost with no VAT added. Overseas owners are quoted on exactly the same published prices as UK-resident clients.

Rates, thresholds and deadlines here reflect the 2026/27 UK position and current Companies House and HMRC guidance. Check GOV.UK, or ask us, before relying on them for your own company.