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The Annual Investment Allowance will now remain at £1 million permanently rather than reverting to £200,000 from 1 April 2023. This change of plan may mean that businesses will want […]

To help businesses that suffered losses during the Covid-19 pandemic, temporary measures were introduced to increase the period for which certain losses could be carried back. This is helpful as […]

Where a person has a property portfolio, they may consider giving away one or more of their investment properties during their lifetime to reduce the inheritance tax payable on their […]

If you are a VAT-registered business you must charge VAT when you make taxable supplies. You must also pay over the difference between VAT you have charged and the VAT […]

To save work, employers can pay employees a mileage allowance if they use their own car for business journeys. The Government have recently cleared up confusion as to what can […]

TAX INCREASES AND PUBLIC SPENDING CUTS  The new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt had warned the public and the financial markets that his Autumn Statement would include “eye-watering” cuts in public spending […]

To ensure that a business does not pay more income tax than it needs to, it is important that a deduction is claimed for all allowable expenses. The rules on […]

The Chancellor’s recent mini-Budget and subsequent U – turns threw a number of spanners into the works as far as profit extraction strategies are concerned. Initial revisions to profit extraction […]

Inheritance tax is often described as a voluntary tax. While most of us do not know in advance when we are going to die, there are steps that you can […]

If you are an employer, it is beneficial for both you and your employees if your workforce is healthy. Consequently, you may want to offer benefits to help employees spot […]

You must register for VAT if your VAT taxable turnover for the last 12 months exceeded the VAT registration threshold of £85,000, or if you expect your turnover in the […]