Taxback.com offers a Dividend Withholding Tax (DWT) reclaim solution for employees to reclaim their over-withheld paid DWT without any cost to the company.
A Swiss pharmaceutical company operates a share scheme for its employees. Through the scheme, employees of the London branch periodically receive dividends on their shares. As the company is Swiss, dividend withholding tax (DWT) of 35% is applied to the dividend.
The company approached Taxback.com for help with reclaiming the DWT that had been applied to the UK employees’ dividend payments.
Tax Treaty Relief
Under the double tax treaty between the UK and Switzerland, the withholding tax should have been applied at a rate of 15% to UK-resident shareholders.
The UK employees were entitled to reclaim the difference between the rate applied (35%) and the tax treaty rate (15%).
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