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Cycle to work tax-free

Cycle to work tax-free As the cost-of-living crisis deepens, many employees are looking to save money. One option is to cut the cost of the commute by cycling to work. There can be tax benefits for this too. Exemption for employer-provided cycles...

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Five ways to save inheritance tax

Five ways to save inheritance tax Inheritance tax is often described as a voluntary tax. While most of us do not know in advance when we are going to die, there are steps that you can take to reduce the amount of inheritance tax on your estate. Here are five suggestions. ...

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Tax relief for pre-trading expenses

Tax relief for pre-trading expenses There is a lot of preparation involved in setting up a business, and costs will be incurred, which may be substantial. Tax legislation recognises that pre-trading expenses are inevitable for many businesses. Pre-trading expenses may incl...

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Using your annual exempt amount for 2021/22

Using your annual exempt amount for 2021/22 All individuals are entitled to an annual exempt amount for capital gains tax purposes. Net gains (chargeable gains less allowable losses) for the tax year are free of capital gain tax to the extent that they are covered by the a...

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Electric charging points – Is there a tax liability?

Electric charging points – Is there a tax liability? As part of the Government’s push to encourage drivers to ‘go electric’, the Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps, announced an extension to a £50 million Government fund to install electric charge ...

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Get ready for the next steps of Making Tax Digital

Get ready for the next steps of Making Tax Digital Making Tax Digital (MTD) is a government programme to move to a digital tax world. HMRC’s stated ambition is to become one of the most digitally advanced tax administrations in the world. MTD involves fundamental changes...

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How are dividends taxed?

Understanding how dividends are taxed Dividends have their own tax rules and their own rates of tax. The rules and the rates apply in the same way regardless of whether the dividends are paid from your personal or family company as part of a profit extraction strategy, or ...

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Take dividends while you can

Take dividends while you can For personal and family companies, a tax efficient strategy for extracting profits is to take a small salary and to extract any further funds needed outside the company in the form of dividends. However, while there are no restrictions on takin...

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Making a negligible value claim

Making a negligible value claim Where assets that have become worthless, it may be possible to make a negligible value claim, allowing a loss to be realised which can be set against chargeable gains to reduce the capital gains tax liability. This claim can be made either o...

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No retained profits – Can you extract cash to cover your living expenses?

What should you do if your business doesn’t have enough profits to pay a dividend? If you operate through a limited company, for example as a personal or family company, you will need to extract funds from your company in order to use them to meet your personal bills. Th...

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