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Building a home studio: understanding the tax implications

Guidance for entertainers on the tax consequences of paying for and owning your home studio.

Hippodrome and VAT partial exemption: standard method or only method?

Hippodrome v HMRC (2025) reinforced the difficulty of convincing HMRC to approve partial exemption special methods (PESMs) to calculate residual input VAT recovery.

Piyush Patel

Indian bank interest: the UK tax consequences

Guidance on the UK tax implications of any Indian bank account interest received, and your responsibility to disclose this income to HMRC.

Chesspiece

Year-end tax planning: top 10 tips for 2026/27

Prepare yourself and your finances for the 2026/27 tax year.

UK lower midmarket M&A outlook for 2026

Thinking of buying or selling a UK business? Review key 2024–25 developments and the forces shaping the year ahead.

Luigi Lungarella

VAT treatment of overage payments in the property sector

HMRC guidance in relation to the VAT treatment of overage payments may affect your property sale.

Why your EBITDA is about to change in 2026

With the amended FRS 102 accounting standard effective from 1 January 2026, many companies will see a noticeable shift in EBITDA.

BKL - Understanding the first year audit process - Index

Understanding the first-year audit process

How we guide businesses through their first audit by managing their risks and supporting their goals.

Taxation Readers’ Forum: Tax on a receipt to a wound-up estate

Answering a query on the inheritance tax implications of 'compensation' being paid by a bank to an estate that had been wound up.

Rolling the dice on VAT: why in-game currency isn’t legal tender

If in-game currency is bought with real money, then resold for real money, is VAT due on those sales?

BKL appoint new Corporate Tax Partner

We’re proud to announce the appointment of Kate Gott as Corporate Tax Partner.

Major changes for cross-border VAT groups

Businesses with cross-border VAT groups should review their structures urgently, so the group (or part of it) is not at risk of disassembly.

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