If you transfer your business to a company in return for shares, You may be able to delay paying Capital Gains Tax. Incorporation Relief means you will not pay any tax until the shares a sold or disposed of. To qualify for Incorporation Relief, you must: be a sole...
The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) has warned self assessment tax payers to keep their Government Gateway login details safe from tax refund companies. The warning follows LITRG’s discovery of taxpayers who have seemingly issued ‘inappropriate’...
The payment period for capital gains tax (CGT) on residential property has been doubled from 30 days to 60 days. Despite the measure not being announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak in the Autumn Budget, it was included in HM Treasury’s Budget publication. The...
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has carried out a study which shows that small firms are losing £25 billion per year due to increasing compliance costs and time lost to dealing with tax admin. The government’s Making Tax Digital (MTD) initiative has...
Millions of workers were able to keep their jobs over the pandemic due to the government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS). The scheme is ending 30 September. At a cost of around £70 billion, the wages of more than 11 million people were subsidised for...
HMRC has announced that the introduction of Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Income Tax self assessment (MTD for ITSA) has been delayed for a year. The government says that the change is in response to the difficulty faced by many UK businesses throughout the COVID-19...
