{"id":7723,"date":"2017-08-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/salary-or-dividends-which-is-better-for-business-owners\/"},"modified":"2019-09-29T19:51:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T00:51:32","slug":"salary-or-dividends-which-is-better-for-business-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/salary-or-dividends-which-is-better-for-business-owners\/","title":{"rendered":"Salary or dividends: Which is better for business owners?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the owner of an incorporated small business, you have a lot of decisions to make. One of the more important decisions is compensations &#8211; whether to pay yourself with dividends or with a salary. This article walks you through the benefits of each.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"0\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.advisor.ca\/tax\/tax-news\/salary-or-dividends-which-is-best-for-business-owners\">Salary or dividends: Which is better for business owners? | Advisor<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>No discussion about an incorporated business owner&#8217;s compensation can start without introducing the theory of integration. The idea behind that theory is simple: regardless of whether you earn income personally (salary) or through a combination of corporately and personally (dividend) taxed income, the net income after all tax is paid should be the same.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the owner of an incorporated small business, you have a lot of decisions to make. One of the more important decisions is compensations &#8211; whether to pay yourself with dividends or with a salary. This article walks you through the benefits of each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.advisor.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/05\/theory-of-integration.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Salary or dividends: Which is better for business owners?","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[41],"class_list":{"0":"post-7723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-small_business"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7948,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723\/revisions\/7948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}