This is an absolutely crucial question if you’re not going to lose an unacceptable chunk of any development profits that you might make...

Stamp Duty Land Tax or SDLT, still commonly colloquially referred to as Stamp Duty, is a good example of the sneaky, creeping way that...

This might seem like an odd question to ask. After all, those working for HMRC are – mostly – human beings, and deserve to be treated...

If you’re tempted to yawn and scroll down the page when you see anything with “Pensions” in the title we can’t say we blame you. But the...

As big brother’s grip gets every tighter on all of us, we’ve now got a new requirement: to register all trusts, even just bare trusts...

I don’t know about you, but I’ve noticed that there are a lot more people about on the roads, and on public transport, now than there has...

Or rather Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT), which you now pay when you buy property. From being a comparatively minor annoyance when buying...

Called by some “the ultimate form of tax planning”, emigration from the UK can have a seriously beneficial effect on your worldwide tax...

A couple of months ago, we wrote an article for the Schmidt Tax Report about ways of saving national insurance entirely legitimately by...

It’s probably the central issue of owner managed business tax planning – you’ve got a company has got cash in it, and you want to get...

PPPublishing is delighted to add a new title to its business bookshelf with The Business Start Up Guide, a short, punchy and practical...

In case you thought otherwise, let us assure you that national insurance is in reality just another tax like all the others. Whatever the...

Financial Expert - The UK home of responsible financial journalism. Founder and editor-in-chief Simon Oates has been informing private...

It’s not surprising that working at home and the tax and other aspects of this are hot topics at the moment, but one surprising thing is...

As I’m an accountant myself, I think I’ve got a licence to be as rude as I like about the profession! The truth of the situation is that...

It could have been worse. As I sit down to write this blog, we’ve only got the main headlines rather than all the gory detail of the...

Alan Pink looks at how to start with a tax advantage over your competition, when you set up a business … Right in the midst of what is...

Ada died in 2020 having made gifts of £1.4 million in the previous seven years. As her estate was still fairly big even after these...

Capital gains tax is an oddball and very nasty tax in many ways, and one which deserves to be better understood. It repays a bit of...

The most straightforward way of reducing your potential inheritance tax liability is making lifetime gifts.