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Use Available Tools To Avoid Losing Heavily On Dividend Tax Squeeze – Charles Stanley

Tom Burroughes

13 August 2025

Revelations that a squeeze on tax dividends has hit millions more UK investors only serves to highlight the need to use savings accounts and pensions. However, for some investors it is hard to avoid the revenue juggernaut, wealth manager the various privatisations that occurred in the 80s and 90s for instance. What started as a minor inefficiency could now have morphed into a major tax headache for some. It just goes to show the value of planning ahead and habitually using tax-efficient allowances for investment as a matter of priority – even if it doesn’t seem relevant at the time.”