CHRISTMAS IS COMING! – NEW RULES FOR GIFTS TO STAFF From 6 April 2016 new rules were introduced to allow employers to provide their directors and employees with certain “trivial” benefits in kind, tax-free. The new rules are a simplification measure so that certain benefits in kind will not need to be reported to HMRC, […]
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LIQUIDATING A COMPANY – IS IT A CAPITAL GAIN? One of the anti-avoidance measures being introduced by the latest Finance Bill potentially changes the way that certain payments to shareholders will be taxed. This may result in payments following some company liquidations being taxed as dividends instead of capital gains. The Government is concerned
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NEW RULES FOR BUY-TO LET LANDLORDS The 2016 Finance Bill sees the introduction of important tax changes for property investors that were originally announced in the 2015 Budget. From 6 April 2016 onwards there are important tax changes affecting the replacement of furnishings for buy to let landlords. 6 April 2017 will see the start
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Clients have always been mystified when we contact them to file their Annual Return to Companies House. “But my accounts aren’t due for 6 months” they say! The Annual Return was an Annual Filing that stated the standing data of the Company and was due annually on the anniversary of the incorporation date of the
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We often get asked for SA302’s by clients who are applying for mortgages. An SA302 is an HMRC-generated form with a breakdown of income. An example is shown at the bottom of this post. The unfortunate issue is that the mortgage lenders typically insist on this type of income proof and will not accept a
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The Flat Rate VAT Scheme (FRS) is a scheme that allows businesses with a turnover of under £150,000 to pay VAT on a fixed percentage of their gross turnover rather than the amount of VAT received less the amount paid out. This is supposed to reduce beaurocracy as the calculation of the VAT return is
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We often get the question from our contractor clients or other small Limited Company clients about whether they have to comply with auto enrolment at all. The answer is not necessarily but they still need to consider their situation and let the Pension Regulator know what they are doing. The first thing to do is
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With the advent of Auto Enrolment pensions, all Employers are going to become more familiar with the ins and outs of pension tax relief! Unfortunately just to complicate a complicated system even more there are two fundamental ways that the Employee contributions can be calculated. If a worker has agreed to the minimum contribution which
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We often get asked about what an employee or Contractor (who is an employee of a Ltd Company) can claim in the way of expenses while on business travel away from their normal place of work. Firstly it is important to understand if the employee is away from their permanent place of work or at
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Summer has finally arrived in the Central Belt. And along with press stories of sunburn and ice creams are a number of stories about the Pensions Regulator clamping down on Companies who have not complied with their workplace pension requirements. An example of this is a story in the Herald today Herald Story on Auto
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