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How to minimise IHT liability on your home
For most taxpayers, the family home is an asset you have paid for slowly, with hard-earned cash, probably after working for many years. You have paid plenty of tax already on the money you have invested, and you want to be able to keep your home indefinitely, passing it on to your family for the future. That is not an unreasonable expectation.
Seven tax incentives to use across the business lifecycle
By Lesley Stalker, head of tax, RJP LLP The Government is always keen to encourage start-ups and help them flourish so HMRC offers a number of reliefs to encourage business owners, often in the form of entrepreneur-friendly policies. Right through the business lifecycle, whatever the stage of development, there is something available. Phase 1: Starting up SEIS For very young companies, SEIS (Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme) provides reliefs to help make the company attractive to funders.
Tax Relief And The Showgirl
An investigation into why you can't claim tax back on a suit, but you can on nipple tassels. If you work from home or run a home-based business and are reasonably well informed, you will be well aware of what you can and can’t claim as business expenses. In a nutshell, you can claim for phone calls (B2B and calls to customers and suppliers) but calling auntie in Melbourne is a definite no-no. Then there’s your place of work.
Three types of capital gains tax relief for business owners and investors
Investing in a business can be one of the most tax efficient ways to grow your capital. This activity can take many forms, from starting your own company with a view to making an eventual exit, to investing in someone else’s business. The latter is especially popular amongst higher rate taxpayers seeking to reduce their income tax liability. Each of the different options comes with different qualifying conditions and offers different pros and cons.
Knowing the pitfalls involved in EIS and SEIS schemes
The opportunity for companies to attract external capital investment through the tax advantaged EIS and SEIS schemes has made a huge difference to SMEs and startups over the years. It may appear hard work to secure the required advance assurance, but thousands have benefited since EIS was first launched in 1994.
10 ways #Budget2017 is good news for business owners | Current Issues
According to Phillip Hammond, a new start up is spawned every single hour in the UK. As business owners, we all know that the UK’s 5.5m SMEs are the economic backbone of this country and they play a very significant role in boosting the economy.
Employee ownership trusts: is a tax-free business exit really possible?
For shareholders looking to exit from their companies, many challenges arise in finding the right buyer on the right terms, whilst continuing to operate the business throughout a sale process which may or may not eventually complete.
Boring Budget hits the self-employed where it hurts most
There was speculation before today’s Budget hinting the Chancellor would do something to equalise levels of taxation between those who are employed and the self-employed. The increase in the number of self-employed workers has been exponential in recent years, rising from 3.8 million in 2008 to 4.6 million in 2015. This apparently costs the Treasury £4bn in lost revenues, as reported in our recent blog, so it’s not surprising.
How can company directors mitigate the new dividend tax increase?
The new £5,000 dividend allowance will add considerable complexity to the personal tax regime from 6 April 2016. For almost everyone who receives dividend income – company directors and equity investors in particular - it will mean higher taxes in the future. Those affected may want to reconsider how their personal income is structured to mitigate the effects.
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