04/02/2025
Taxpayers can adopt several simple strategies to preserve and grow their wealth, and seeking financial advice can be an invaluable resource for providing peace of mind while helping people to achieve their goals and prepare for all scenarios.
04/02/2025
And, with clients and advisers working to maximise their savings, use their allowances and refresh their plans before the tax year-end, now is the perfect time to have these discussions.
04/01/2025
The state pension is currently set at £11,502.40 – just £1,067.60 below the personal allowance threshold of £12,570.
03/27/2025
That leaves the UK potentially only one year away from pensioners having to effectively hand a portion of their state pension back to the Exchequer in tax, which to many would seem perverse.
03/26/2025
Tax rules mean UK government debt portfolios are equivalent to 7% cash savings accounts for higher earners.
03/20/2025
The DTA allows the Swiss network of double taxation agreements to be expanded into Southern Africa.
03/17/2025
Relocating to Spain can be highly lucrative for professionals due to tax advantages.
03/17/2025
"Previously, small farms could be passed down through generations without IHT liability."
03/12/2025
Women still shoulder a far greater amount of caring work than men
03/06/2025
Fiscal pressures on the Chancellor grow
02/21/2025
The upcoming reforms to Agricultural Property Relief and Business Relief could force more family farms and small enterprises into difficult decisions about their futures.
02/21/2025
This rise in IHT receipts contributed to gross HMRC tax and national insurance contribution receipts rising to £719bn in the period ending January 2025.
02/19/2025
HMRC launched 430 new criminal investigations into suspected tax evasion in 2023/24
02/18/2025
Among the wealthy, confidence in the economy has fallen to 48 per cent, down from 84 per cent just six months ago.
02/18/2025
That’s money that we could be using to fill potholes, fund schools and hospitals, improve access to the police and ensure GPs are accessible.
02/18/2025
For dual nationals, if none of the above lead to a clear answer, the US and UK tax authorities will agree between them how to tax the individual.
02/10/2025
The Court of Appeal held that payments made by the taxpayer to settle a regulatory investigation were not penalties and thus were fully deductible.
02/07/2025
The total disclosed deal value also rose from €36.3bn in 2023 to €52.0bn in 2024 – with 10 deals above €1bn in value last year.
01/29/2025
The implementing jurisdictions should also be able to check whether the tax calculations of MNE groups are correct.
01/24/2025
Robson will be left with a hefty tax bill after losing part an appeal at the First Tier Tax Tribunal.