June 8, 2022
Academy trusts with more than 20% revenue reserves
The ESFA (Education and Skills Funding Agency) has been requested by the National Audit...
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 16, 2022
Taxation Readers’ Forum: IHT and the ten year anniversary charge
Writing for Taxation magazine’s Readers’ Forum, BKL tax consultant Terry Jordan responds to a...
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...
April 7, 2022
Rich Mrs Sunak: Poor Mr Sunak?
You don’t get to choose your parents; nor where you are born. And, since...