June 28, 2022
Making Tax Digital for Income Tax Self Assessment
Updated 19 December 2022 We’re now into the fourth year of the Government’s Making...
June 27, 2022
Tax on tax and how not to avoid it
If you’re buying a property on which the option to tax has been exercised,...
June 22, 2022
The Dower House: SDLT and multiple dwellings
Not the sort where Dowager Countesses live, but the house purchased by Mr &...
May 30, 2022
Towers and petards: SDLT and avoidance
A petard is a small explosive device of Elizabethan times which is inclined to...
May 17, 2022
Company exits and capital treatment
In a previous article we explored share buybacks: how a shareholder could exit from...
May 12, 2022
BKL completes sale of quantity surveying and expert witness business
We’re delighted to have completed the sale of Base Quantum to SOCOTEC UK. Base...
May 9, 2022
Wakelyn: more on CGT enhancement expenditure
Capital Gains Tax cases seem to come along like buses. Hot on the heels...
May 9, 2022
Cashflow and forecasting: the most important job you will do
One of the biggest myths about running your own business is that it is...
April 29, 2022
CGT: the cost of cost confusion
When you sell or otherwise dispose of a chargeable asset, Capital Gains Tax (‘CGT’)...
April 19, 2022
Settlement opportunity for remuneration trusts
HMRC have announced a new ‘settlement opportunity’ for tax avoidance arrangements involving certain ‘Remuneration...
April 13, 2022
Who to blame when tax schemes go wrong?
When a tax avoidance scheme doesn’t work, who can you blame? The designer? The...
April 11, 2022
HMRC and MSCs
It is reported in the Financial Times and elsewhere that HMRC have recently issued...