To help meet the costs of health and adult social care, a new levy, the Health and Social Care Levy, is introduced from 6 April 2022. Payment of the levy, which is set at the rate of 1.25% of qualifying...
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Electric Company Cars – Are They Still Tax-Efficient?
Tax policy is used to influence behaviour as well as to collect revenue. One example where this is the case is the company car tax rules which tax high emission cars heavily and reward drivers for choosing electric and low...
Reporting And Paying Tax On UK Residential Property Gains
Reporting and paying tax on UK residential property gains Where a chargeable gain arises in respect of a UK residential property, since April 2020, the gain must be reported to HMRC and a payment made on account of the associated tax...
Autumn Budget 2021: What You Need To Know
On the 27th October 2021, Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled the contents of his Budget in the House of Commons. Setting out the government's tax and spending plans for the year ahead, Mr Sunak said his plans were focused on the...
March Budget 2021: What You Need To Know
In the Chancellor’s second real Budget on 3 March 2021 he announced that he had to level with people about the state of the UK economy. Rishi Sunak has chosen a fine line between raising taxes to start paying down the...
The Office Of Tax Simplification Calls For Capital Gains Tax Overhaul
The Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) is recommending aligning capital gains tax (CGT) rates with those attributable to income tax as well as sharply reducing the annual exempt amount in order to increase tax revenues and create a more equitable...
IT Consultant Held Contract For Services
HMRC’s application of the IR35 rules remains ambiguous after an IT contractor successfully appealed to the First Tier Tribunal (FTT) against a tax charge arising under the intermediaries' legislation. In RALC Consulting Ltd v HMRC [2019] TC 07474, the FTT allowed...
Does The High-Income Child Benefit Charge Apply?
The high-income child benefit charge (HICBC) applies to claw back child benefit from either the claimant or his or her partner where at least one of them has income of £50,000 or more. The charge is perhaps one of the...
Make Use Of The Capital Gains Tax Inter-Spouse Exemption
There are a number of tax concessions available to married couples and civil partners which recognise that their financial affairs may be interlinked. One of these concessions relates the transfer of assets between spouse and civil partner for capital gains...
Utilising The 2019/20 Dividend Allowance
The dividend allowance is quite unusual in that it is available to everyone and everyone has the same allowance. For 2019/20 the allowance is set at £2,000. In common with many allowances, it is a case of use it or...