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Alternative finance for businesses: exploring your options

The past decade or so has been a rollercoaster for lending to small and...

Avoiding penalties: Portview Fit-Out

If a tax avoidance scheme which you have implemented fails to achieve its objective,...

The tax-efficient benefits of electric company cars

Writing for ICAEW TAXline, Sam Inkersole explains how electric company cars offer a favourable...

London’s fintech boom opens the door for dirty money

BKL’s fintech partner Jon Wedge has contributed to a Bloomberg News article on alleged...

Metropolitan International Schools: record decision

The First-tier Tribunal case of Metropolitan International Schools Ltd [2021] UKFTT 438 (TC) was...

Taxation Readers’ Forum: Inheritance tax

Writing for Taxation magazine’s Readers’ Forum, BKL tax consultant Terry Jordan responds to a...

Rules is rules: VAT input tax requirements

Mpala Mufwankolo ran a pub in Tottenham, renting the property from a landlord who...

Corporate munificence: beware

Using your private company to make charitable donations can be sensible and tax-efficient: donations...

Customer-funded R&D: Quinn and tax

R&D tax credits provide valuable support to businesses undertaking cutting edge projects.  The main...

Deductive reasoning: Hargreaves v HMRC

A company is in some circumstances required to deduct and account for income tax...

Crypto capital gains and share pooling explained

Capital gains summary When an individual transfers one crypto to another, or to fiat...

Ethereum and DeFi tax reporting: borrowing, lending, loans

Ethereum’s blockchain has allowed for a plethora of different protocols to be developed, leading...