Many businesses will have held Christmas parties and lunches for their staff and clients in the weeks leading up to Christmas. Some businesses will […]
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George Osborne spoke for sixty seven minutes in his combined Comprehensive Spending Review and Autumn Statement. As a rough estimate maybe two or three of
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HMRC have recently issued an estimated 30,000 letters to higher rate taxpayers it suspects of not having repaid their Child Benefit. The letters appear to
A recent article in the Mail on Sunday by Jeff Prestridge extolled the virtues of obtaining independent financial advice. Demand for advice is likely to
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Following the earlier blog on the more major changes in taxation announced in the 2013 Budget, the following (although including some taxation references) are essentially
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We’ve heard from successive governments that the UK taxation system is overly complicated and in need of simplification. In fact the current coalition government created the “Office
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Where the partnership employs others on PAYE and pays them a benefit in kind (use of a car, private health insurance etc) then no one
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In a move certain to anger the 200,000+ Brits who own property in France, newly elected President François Hollande has announced he is set to significantly
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For many years now HMRC have increased the tax costs for the company car driver and the employer. Not only by increasing the income tax
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In my last blog I mentioned the need for us to wait for the consultation papers on ‘relief capping’ in the summer to see whether
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