2 April 2020
The amount of capital gains tax small business owners can potentially save when they sell their business has been cut by 90% for 2020/21.
Entrepreneurs’
relief allows people to pay a reduced 10% flat rate of capital gains tax on any
gain made from…
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1 November 2018
Although the tax legislation contains an exemption to prevent employees from suffering a benefit-in-kind tax charge on the staff Christmas party, the exemption is limited in scope and application. It is unwise to assume that there will be no tax to pay…
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30 October 2018
Going into Budget 2018, between leaks and political instability, few expected Chancellor Philip Hammond would have surprises left to spring.
How wrong we were.
Under pressure to support No 10’s ’end of austerity’ message, bolstered by revised growth forecasts from the Office of Budget…
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23 November 2017
Introduction
Chancellor Philip Hammond said he’d take a “balanced approach” to his second Budget of 2017.
Once again the speech was light on headline-grabbing finance changes and there were no ‘giveaways’ or major surprises.
Instead, the chancellor focused on measures to prepare the economy for post-Brexit life.
Raising productivity is key to boosting…
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11 September 2017
The next Finance Bill will include legislation to reduce significantly the taxable benefit on the provision of low CO2 emission cars from April 2020.
From 2020 there will be a 2% benefit in kind for company cars that emit no CO2 such as…
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HMRC have recently updated their toolkit dealing with the reporting of expenses and benefits provided to employees and directors in the light of significant recent changes in this area.
HMRC toolkits are designed to help minimise the risk of errors in returns and computations and their use, although voluntary, will…
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Last month we reported that the government had announced the delay of Making Tax Digital for Business (MTDfB) to 2020 at the earliest but that quarterly VAT reporting, using the new system will be mandatory from 2019.
Surely we are doing that already you might say. However, currently businesses are…
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The Finance Bill due to be debated in early September will finally include the new rules for the set off of company losses that were originally announced in March 2016.
As a result of the first Finance Act being rushed through due to the snap General Election the legislation to…
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