C3 engagement deadline 31st October 2013 due to the Autumn Statement on the...
You may have seen by now that Chancellor George Osborne has announced that this year’s Autumn Statement will be held on Wednesday 4th December 2013. We have increasingly seen in recent years, that...
View ArticleThe UK is a cut above the rest
In April 2013, the UK cut its top rate of Income Tax from 50% to 45%. When looking at average rates of income tax, the cut was not in keeping with other countries around the world most of whom had...
View ArticleHMRC tax coding errors shame
As anyone connected with the accountancy and taxation professions will attest, we have heard much in the last couple of years about the evils of taxpayers not paying their ‘fair share’. The...
View ArticleCotter v HMRC and avoidance schemes
The case of Cotter v HMRC has been rumbling on now for some time, working its way through the court tiers during which time both sides have chalked up victories. In the most recent instalment the case...
View ArticlePawson: tax issues for holiday homes
As the summer season around the country draws to a close as winter finally starts to bite, we look at the income, capital gains and inheritance tax position for those individuals* who own and operate...
View Article2013 Tax Prat of the Year puts her foot in it…….. again!
It pains to once again comment on another ‘foot-in mouth’ diatribe from the current holder of the ‘Tax Prat of the Year’ title, Margaret Hodge. It is now the best part of a full year since no less a...
View ArticleAutumn Statement 2013. What is in the Red Box?
With the Autumn Statement imminent Chancellor George Osborne’s second most important speech of the year, the Autumn Statement to be heard tomorrow on the 5th December 2013. This is the Chancellors...
View ArticleAutumn Statement 2013
Many of you will by now have either heard or read the Government’s Autumn Statement which was delivered earlier today. For those of you who have not and wish to read the statement you can do so by...
View ArticleDes non-res: the practicalities of tax exile
The concept of becoming a tax exile is well-established, and whilst no one has yet taken it to the extremes of rock star Hotblack Desiato in Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe,...
View ArticleBlack Friday Proposals – A Call to Arms!
Normally, when we communicate via this medium we make every effort to deliver a balanced position on whatever proposals or actions have been taken by the Government in tandem with HMRC, on which we are...
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