Tax

A look at the strategies available to companies that are looking to minimise their corporation tax bill. The UK has one of the lowest rates… Read More »Minimising corporation tax in 2016

Stamp duty land tax (SDLT) on additional properties such as buy-to-let investments and second homes will be 3 percentage points higher than current SDLT from… Read More »Higher stamp duty rates for buy-to-let property

A guide to changes to the inheritance tax nil-rate band and strategies to reduce your liability. We all like to think that our nearest and… Read More »Minimising inheritance tax

The what, when, how and why of completing your self-assessment tax return. At the end of the year, most people have other things on their… Read More »Self-assessment: an introduction

A guide to tax when buying, renting out and selling property. When the Chancellor George Osborne announced that he was curbing tax breaks for landlords… Read More »Property and tax

This year we left organising our Christmas party late, and after we finally booked the venue, I started to think about Christmas gifts, parties for… Read More »Christmas and Tax – the financial festivities

HMRC has revealed how it plans to introduce digital tax accounts over the course of the 2015/16 tax year. First announced in Budget 2015, news… Read More »Digital account timeline overview

The chancellor George Osborne wasn’t exaggerating when he said he was undertaking a “major and long overdue reform to simplify the taxation of dividends” in… Read More »Understanding dividends