Tax for Professionals
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Here are some of the topics we cover:
Accounts
- Bad debts
- Basis period
- Case law
- Checking
- Errors
- Fees
- FRS
- Generally accepted accounting practice
- Investigation
- Miscellaneous
- Writing off
Agriculture
- Averaging election
- Herd basis
Bank accounts
- Funding
- Interest
- Investigations
- Joint accounts
- Offshore
- Personal
- Returns
Benefits
- Assets
- Benefits-in-kind
- Cars
- Company-owned
- Earnings limit
- Miscellaneous
- P11d notices
- Personal
- Reclaiming VAT
- Records
- Remuneration package
- Travel
- Trivial
- Vans
Brexit
- Brexit
Business status
- Incorporation
Capital allowances
- Annual Investment Allowance
- Business property relief
- Business purchase
- Cars
- Construction
- Enhanced capital allowances
- Environmentally beneficial
- First year
- Fixtures and fittings
- Industrial buildings allowance
- Intangible asset
- Miscellaneous
- Plant and Equipment
- Writing down
- Year-end planning
Capital gains tax
- Allowances
- Annual exemption
- Antiques
- Business property
- Case law
- Distribution on winding up
- Divorce/separation
- Domestic property
- Enterprise investment scheme
- Entrepreneurs' Relief
- Exemption
- Foreign exchange gains
- Gifts
- Goodwill
- Holdover
- Home as office
- Husband/wife
- Indexation Allowance
- Joint ownership
- Losses
- Market value
- Miscellaneous
- Negligible value
- Offshore funds
- Part disposals
- Private residence relief
- Reporting
- Roll-over relief
- Shares
- Social investment tax relief
- Taper relief
- Tax bands
- Tax breaks
- Valuation
- Wine
- Year-end planning
Cars
- Advisory fuel rates
- Allowances
- Authorised Mileage Rate
- Benefits-in-kind
- Capital allowances
- CO2 emissions
- Family members
- Leasing
- Loans
- Miscellaneous
- Private use
- Scale charge
- Vans
- VAT
Children
- Bank accounts
- Child benefit
- Childcare vouchers
- Company car
- Education funding
- Gift
- High income child benefit
- Inheritance tax
- Investments
- Personal allowance
- Tax credit
- Tax planning
- Trusts
Civil partner
- Divorce
Companies
- Associated
- ATED
- Close
- Companies House
- Corporation tax
- Demergers
- Dividends
- Foreign
- Incorporation
- Loans
- Miscellaneous
- Moving profits
- Offshore
- Purchasing
- Selling a company
Contractors
- CIS scheme
Coronavirus
- News
- Support schemes
Corporation tax
- Accounting period
- Allowances
- Annual return
- Associated companies
- Deductions
- Disincorporation
- Gifts
- Goodwill
- Joint companies
- Losses
- Miscellaneous
- Offshore
- Payment bands
- R&D relief
- Relief
- Sponsorship
- Tax bands
- Transfer pricing
- Year-end planning
Cryptoassets
- Capital Gains Tax
- Corporation tax
- Income tax
- Inheritance tax
Dividends
- Distribution
- Husband and wife
- Illegal dividends
- Maximum
- Miscellaneous
- Non-corporate
- Timing
- Vouchers
- Waivers
- Year-end planning
Domicile
- Allowable capital losses
- Non dom
Employees
- Allowances
- Benefits
- Capital allowances
- Casual
- Children
- Contractors
- Directors
- Disabled
- Dividends
- Employment status
- Expenses
- Foreign
- Freelancers
- Gifts to
- Income tax
- Loans to
- Maternity leave
- Miscellaneous
- National Insurance
- P11D
- P35
- Parental leave
- PAYE
- Records
- Self-employed
- Statutory maternity pay
- Statutory sick pay
- Tax codes
- Temps
- Termination
- Training
Enquiries/investigations
- Assessments
- Bank account enquiries
- Fishing letters
- Inspectors' visits
- Interest
- Investigations
- Miscellaneous
- Penalties
- Taxman's rights
- Tribunals
Entertainment
- Allowances
- Business
- Case law
- Employees
- Expenses
- Miscellaneous
- Tax-free limits
- Third party
- VAT
Expenses
- Allowances
- Annual returns
- Benefits-in-kind
- Case law
- Dispensations
- Home as office
- Medical
- Miscellaneous
- Payment
- Records
- Repairs/renewals
- Travel
- VAT
Finance
- Raising finance
Gifts
- Capital gains tax
- Charitable
- Children
- Employee
- Gift aid scheme
- Inheritance tax
- Miscellaneous
Green taxes
- Plastic packaging tax
HMRC
- Administration
- Announcements
- Appeals against
- Budget
- Clearances
- Dealing with generally
- Enforcement
- Errors
- Forms
- Guidance
- Identity theft
- Interest rates
- Internal review
- Making tax digital
- Miscellaneous
- Payments
- Procedure
- Repayments
- Self-assessment
Husband and wife companies
- Dividends
- Divorce
- Income shifting
- Income splitting
- Inheritance tax
- Interest split
- Joint property
- Miscellaneous
Income tax
- Allowances
- Assessments
- Capital gains tax
- Cars/fuel
- Case law
- Children
- Codes
- Deadlines
- Dividend timing
- Gift aid
- Gifts
- Loans
- Losses
- Miscellaneous
- Overpayment
- Payment methods
- Payments on account
- Penalties
- Personal allowance
- Rates
- Relief
- Repayments
- Returns
- Scottish rate of income tax
- Student loans
- Tax avoidance schemes
- Tax credits
- Underpayment
- Welsh rate of income tax
Inheritance tax
- Agricultural property relief
- Annual exemption
- Business property relief
- Case law
- Deeds of variation
- Enduring power of attorney
- Exemption
- Gifts
- Insurance
- Joint accounts
- Marriage
- Miscellaneous
- Nil-rate band
- Offshore
- Potentially exempt transfers
- Pre-owned assets
- Property transfers
- Quick succession relief
- Returns
- Syndicate agreement
- Trusts
- Using a will
- Valuation
Insurance
- Bond
- Claim
- Fee protection
- Life
- Permanent health
- Recovery
Investments
- AIM stocks
- Allowances
- Bonds
- Capital gains tax
- Enterprise investment scheme
- Exemptions
- Help to save
- Interest
- ISAs
- Offshore
- Scams
- Social investment tax relief
- Trust funds
- Unit trusts
- Venture capital trusts
- Woodlands
- Year-end planning
IR35
- Definition of
- Factors indicative of
- Payment of tax
Loans
- Bank
- Benefit-in-kind
- Directors
- Employees
- Family
- Interest
- Loan accounts
- Miscellaneous
- Mortgages
- Student loans
Making tax digital
- General
Married couples
- Marriage allowance
National Insurance
- Age exemption
- Bands
- Benefits
- Class 1A
- Class 2
- Class 3
- Earnings periods
- Earnings threshold
- Employee status
- Employment allowance
- Enforcement
- Errors
- Late payment
- Miscellaneous
- Overpayments
- Rates
- Rebate
- Rental income
- Self-employment
- Six-year rule
- Voluntary payments
News
- Capital allowances
- Capital gains tax
- Cars, vans and fuel
- Coronavirus
- Corporation tax
- Expenses
- HMRC enforcement
- Income tax
- Inheritance tax
- Making Tax Digital
- National Insurance
- News
- Pensions
- Property
- Returns, forms and admin
- Sole traders and partnerships
- Stamp taxes
- Status
- VAT
Offshore
- Amnesties
- Capital gains tax
- Companies
- Homes abroad
- Income tax
- Investments
Partnerships
- Limited liability
- Tax returns
PAYE
- Construction industry scheme
- Employees' obligations to pay
- Overpayments
- P11Dd
- Payment of via deductions
- Payroll software
- RTI
- Taxable earnings
- Underpayment of tax
Payments
- Direct deductions
- Payment options
- Repayments
- Tax summaries
Penalties
- Appealing against
- Careless or deliberate
- CIS scheme
- Interest
- Money laundering
- RTI
- Self employed
Pensions
- A-day
- Allowances
- Annuity
- Auto enrolment
- Contribution limits
- Pension input periods
- Personal
- Relief
- Schemes
- SIPPs
- SSAS
- Tax-free lump sum
- Tax rebate
Practice admin
- Agent authorisation
- Client contact
Profit extraction
- Benefits-in-kind
- Bonuses
- Capital gains
- Dividends
- Miscellaneous
- Remuneration package
- Salary
- Shares
Property
- Annual tax on enveloped dwellings
- Business asset taper relief
- Buy-to-let
- Capital allowances
- Capital gains tax
- Disadvantaged areas
- Funding
- Holiday lets
- Home as office
- Inheritance tax
- Joint ownership
- Lease
- Letting's relief
- Lettings relief
- Main residence
- Miscellaneous
- Mixed-use
- Option to tax
- Overseas
- Rental income
- Repairs/renewals
- Self-build
- Stamp duty
- Transfer
- VAT
Residency
- Tests
Returns
- CIS returns
- Company
- Corporation Tax
- Deadlines
- Enforcement
- Entries
- Errors
- Incentives
- Late submission
- Miscellaneous
- Online
- Paper
- PAYE
- Penalties
- Personal
- Posting
- Quality standard
- VAT
Self assessment
- Penalties
- Procedure
- Trading and property allowances
Shares
- Buy-backs
- Capital gains tax
- EMI scheme
- Employer share schemes
- Gifting
- Husband/wife
- Inheritance tax
- Loss relief
- Miscellaneous
- Negligible value
- Valuations
- year-end planning
Stamp Duty
- Miscellaneous
- Penalties
- Rate
Succession planning
- Family
- MBO
Tax
- Income tax
Tax credits
- Tax credits
- Working tax credits
Tax liability
- Determination
- Special relief
Trusts and estates
- Self assessment
Vans
- VAT
VAT
- Agents
- Allowances
- Appeal
- Assessments
- Bad debt
- Barter trade
- Benefits-in-kind
- Capital goods scheme
- Case law
- Cash accounting
- Charities
- Construction
- Deposits
- Deregistration
- E-commerce
- Education
- Entertainment
- Errors
- EU sales
- Exempt supplies
- Flat rate
- Global accounting scheme
- Groups
- Holding company
- Input tax
- Late returns
- Margin scheme
- Membership fees
- Miscellaneous
- MOSS
- Option to tax
- Output tax
- Partial exemption
- Payment
- Periods
- Prompt payment discount
- Property
- Rates
- Reclaiming
- Records
- Registration
- Returned goods
- Returns
- Schemes
- Self billing
- Staff clothes/equipment
- Standard rate
- Stock value
- Surcharge
- TOGC
- Tribunal
- Unjust enrichment
- Voluntary disclosures
- Zero-rated
Wages/salaries
- Benefits
- Bonuses
- Directors
- National Insurance
- National minimum wage
- PAYE
- Pay in lieu of notice
- Payroll
- Remuneration packages
- Sacrifice schemes
- Sick pay
- Spouses
- Tax codes
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In the most recent issue you'll find advice on...
Year 11 - issue 8 - 09.01.2025
ANTI-AVOIDANCEParticipator loan loophole closedAnother tax measure announced at the 2024 Autumn Budget affects close company clients and their director shareholders. What’s the full story? |
BENEFITS IN KINDPreparing clients for compulsory benefits payrollingPayrolling of benefits in kind provided to all employees will be mandatory from 2026/27. Although April 2026 might seem a while into the future, what steps should your clients be taking now to make the transition as seamless as possible? |
DOMICILEIHT opportunities for non-domiciles from 2025The 2024 Autumn Budget saw confirmation of the intricacies of inheritance tax (IHT) reform which will be based on residence from April 2025. Who are the winners and losers and what should you be advising your clients? |
DEALING WITH HMRCShould clients consider ADR?One of your clients has just had an HMRC review of a decision they didn’t agree with. It won’t budge, despite your client having a very strong case. Why might alternative dispute resolution (ADR) be worth looking at before to going to the tax tribunal? |
INCORPORATIONIncorporation: sidestep a trap with capital allowancesOne of your new clients is looking to incorporate their partnership. The fixed asset register and paperwork from their previous advisor suggests there could be issues with capital allowances. What can you advise to help mitigate these? |
SHARE REWARD SCHEMESIssuing shares to employees: tax and beneficial electionsOne of your clients wants to issue shares in the company to a key employee. What are the tax implications to be aware of and why might it be a good idea for them to make a “s.431” election? |
VATHelp clients make the VAT cash go furtherOne of your clients is finding it difficult to pay their quarterly returns on time and has asked if there are ways to help their cash-flow problems by using VAT schemes or other methods. What options are available? |
TAX CASESLate receipt of sale proceeds: reasonable excuse? |
TAX CASESWhat was loan taken out for? |
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