{"id":30997,"date":"2026-08-21T03:30:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T01:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.accountable.eu\/help-center\/what-is-the-difference-between-a-salary-for-a-natural-person-and-a-salary-for-a-one-person-company\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T03:30:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T01:30:41","slug":"what-is-the-difference-between-a-salary-for-a-natural-person-and-a-salary-for-a-one-person-company","status":"publish","type":"help_center","link":"https:\/\/www.accountable.eu\/en-be\/help-center\/what-is-the-difference-between-a-salary-for-a-natural-person-and-a-salary-for-a-one-person-company\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the difference between a salary for a natural person and a salary for a one-person company?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">\n<h2 class=\"font-degular\" id=\"h_cc1ecce303\">Salary of a natural person <\/h2>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">A salary is a compensation that an employee\/worker gets against performing specific tasks and duties. When it comes to the Salary of a Natural Person Self Employed. There are many ways but two are most common:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"font-inter\">\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">Gross Salary: This is paid from your business expenses directly but in this case, e, you are taxed via personal income tax. Yo will end you up in a higher tax bracket and you will also be be paying municipal taxes and social contributions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"font-inter\">\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">Dividend: This is the profit after paying financing costs, fixed costs and operational expenses. It is subject to generally, a lower tax percentage. If you then would like receive your income, you end up paying comparatively less in taxes<\/p>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"font-degular\" id=\"h_87ab7ffe1f\">Salary for a one person company <\/h2>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">If you are an owner, In a one person company, your salary will be the part of your expenses as a compulsion as there is no choice on offer here. This &#8216;directors salary&#8217; will be deducted from your profits to give you the net profit of the company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">\n<h2 class=\"font-degular\" id=\"h_c3ab4e5278\"><b>What is the difference?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">You get a choice as a natural person self employed whether to take your salary separately or incorporate it with your net profits and take a dividend but in one person company, you don&#8217;t get this choice as directors salary always needs to be separated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">\n<h2 class=\"font-degular\" id=\"h_06031090ec\"><b>How much can you take as a salary?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">This is indeed a subjective choice for both types of entities which is usually determined by the owner in both type of entities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">\n<h2 class=\"font-degular\" id=\"h_724f7a3e22\">Is my whole revenue my salary? <\/h2>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">This depends on the amount of costs that you have which will be subtracted from your revenue. After this deduction, all the revenue is yours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">\n<p class=\"no-margin font-inter\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article answers the question in the title and these: how much can I take as a salary? 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