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What VAT can I claim on Christmas parties and gifts?

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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The Autumn Statement 2015

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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Have you had a letter from HMRC? Are you subject to the High Income Child Benefit Charge (HICBC) – or perhaps not?

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

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There’s no substitute for financial advice

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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Budget 2013 – non tax changes

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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Child benefit – adding further complexity to the tax system

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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Do Partnerships have to return benefits in kind?

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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French holiday homes under attack

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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