Dec. 01, 2025
Personal Tax
April 16, 2025
Making Tax Digital – Income Tax from 6 April 2026
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HMRC is modernising the UK tax administration system to enable real-time digital reporting. Making Tax Digital (‘MTD’) is a key part of this initiative, requiring taxpayers to maintain digital records
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April 1, 2025
Tax planning strategies for 2025 – Succession planning and Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs)
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Several changes were announced in the Autumn Budget that affected business owners’ succession planning. Find out how changes to EOTs, IHT, Pensions, Trusts and CGT could affect your succession plans.
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March 11, 2025
Tax planning strategies for 2025 – Tax efficient profit extraction
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In recent years, the changes in Corporation Tax rates, National Insurance, tax-free dividend allowance and dividend tax rates, has altered the advice each business owner requires to ensure their company profits are extracted in a tax-efficient way.
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March 5, 2025
Why do I need fee protection insurance / tax investigation insurance?
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In this blog, we look at HMRC enquiries, how they may affect you and the benefits of having fee protection insurance in place.
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November 4, 2024
The cryptic arm of the taxman
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Investors in cryptocurrencies like bitcoin should not forget the tax consequences of their digital wallets, says HMRC.
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October 28, 2024
Making way for E-invoicing
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The government wants businesses to make more use of electronic invoicing to combat VAT fraud and enhance tax collection.
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October 21, 2024
Capital gains tax receipts
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Raising tax rates is a traditional government strategy to increase tax receipts for HMRC, but this may not be the case for capital gains tax (CGT). This is because taxpayers generally have more control over when gains are realised.
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September 16, 2024
Capital gains tax: a minority sport?
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The Labour Party’s 2024 manifesto said, ‘We will not increase National Insurance, the basic, higher, or additional rates of Income Tax, or VAT.’ The absence of any comment on CGT meant that Rachel Reeves received persistent questions during the election campaign about a possible increase.
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August 30, 2024
Achieving a tax efficient business exit
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For a tax efficient exit, you need to plan years ahead to reap the benefits. Let’s look at some of the taxes and tax reliefs you need to consider.
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June 3, 2024
Have you overlooked a changed tax status?
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With allowances frozen or cut, you may have underpaid tax for 2023/24
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May 27, 2024
Daily penalties come in for late self assessment returns
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Around 1.1 million taxpayers who failed to submit the self assessment tax return for 2022/23 on 31 January 2024 now face a £10 daily penalty charge by HMRC.
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May 6, 2024
Buy-to-let owners selling up
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While the higher rate of capital gains tax (CGT) on residential property disposals has dropped by 4%, from 28% to 24%, from 6 April 2024, the vast majority of landlords who sell up are facing a higher CGT bill when compared to two years ago.
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