Dividends

Foresight Solar Fund has announced plans to upgrade nine solar and battery storage assets, which could add up to £2.5million in revenue each year and strengthen investors' dividend cover. It is undertaking to update nine of UK solar plants and utility battery energy storage systems (BESS), spa

Aberdeen Asian Income Fund (AAIF) has enjoyed a strong start to 2026 delivering a 28% total return on net asset value (NAV) in the six months to the end of June and producing a 30.9% total return on its share price. The fund's NAV is ahead of the 25.7% return from the MSCI AC Asia Pacific ex Japan I

Company directors and shareholders face new mandatory reporting requirements for declaring dividends from profits for owner-managed and family-run ‘close’ companies. Failure to comply will incur a £60 fine for each failure to disclose in the tax return.

As the number of people paying dividend tax in the 2024/25 tax year is forecast to have doubled in the last three years, Laith Khalaf looks at how investors can beat the dividend tax trap. Cuts to the dividend allowance mean the number of people facing tax on their dividends is soaring. HMRC forecas

The number of people expected to pay dividend tax in the 2024/25 tax year has almost doubled since 2021/22, a Freedom of Information request from AJ Bell has revealed. Just under £18 billion is set to line Treasury coffers for this tax year alone, with nearly 3.6 million taxpayers subject to t