Employment Law Bulletin: November 2014
Holiday pay and overtime: You won’t have missed the headlines in the newspapers announcing...
Parties urged to come clean on tax plans
The Institute of Public Policy Research claims that the three main political parties are...
Property valuation
The base value of an asset held on death for CGT purposes is the...
Balls spells out mansion tax details
Labour’s Ed Balls has offered further details of the party’s plans to introduce a...
Boris defends overseas investment
Boris Johnson, speaking at the UK MIPIM property conference, has defended the injection of...
Labour promises new homes for locals
‘Under a future Labour government, local first-time buyers would be given priority on half...
Non-dom tangle
What is the correct IHT and pre-owned assets income tax (POAT) treatment of a...
Scotland’s own mansion tax?
Scottish finance secretary John Swinney has introduced the land and building transaction tax –...
Accountants must be smart to survive
BKL’s David Landau is quoted by the ICAEW’s Economia magazine, in an article on...
Labour grandees unimpressed by mansion tax
Prominent Labour party figures have continued to criticise Ed Miliband’s proposals for a ‘mansion...
An entertaining question: what’s deductible?
The cost of “business entertainment” isn’t tax-deductible. The following question from a client and...
Employment Law Bulletin: October 2014
Babies born or placed through adoption on or after 5 April 2015 will trigger...