Inheritance tax is usually charged at 40% on the value of your estate over the £325,000 nil-rate band. This includes your property, money and possessions. There’s an additional allowance of up to £175,000 if you pass on your family home to children or grandchildren. If you’re married, you can effectively combine your thresholds and transfer[…]
After a challenging year as a UK residential landlord, you might have read about improvements to the buy-to-let mortgage market in recent weeks. In the three months to 31 May 2021, the average interest rates for a residential landlord have declined. A two-year fixed-rate buy-to-let mortgage fell 0.10 percentage points to 2.95%. A five-year fixed[…]
With everything that’s happened so far this year, it might be easy to forget your obligations to file a tax return for 2019/20 by midnight on 31 January 2021. The coronavirus pandemic and subsequent economic crisis has caused chaos with businesses up and down the country, most of which closed entirely during April 2020. The[…]