Use or lose the structures and buildings allowance
3rd May 2019
Posted in Articles, Capital Allowances, Corporation Tax, Featured Articles, Property Tax by Forbes Dawson
The issue A longstanding frustration of businesses is that most capital expenditure on commercial buildings does not benefit from capital allowances…
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Is Lorraine Kelly a tax avoider or a celebrity scapegoat?
29th March 2019
Posted in Articles, Featured Articles, Tax Risk and Investigations by Forbes Dawson
The papers have recently been rife with stories of how TV presenter, Lorraine Kelly, won an appeal at a First Tier…
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Year-end tax planning 2019 – reducing your tax bill
28th March 2019
Posted in Articles, Featured Articles, Private Client by Forbes Dawson
With the end of the 2018/19 tax year a little over a week away, the period leading up to 5 April…
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Are Furnished Holiday Lets (FHLs) more valuable than ever?
15th February 2019
Posted in Articles, Featured Articles, Private Client, Property Tax by Forbes Dawson
The issue Many people already know that Furnished Holiday Lets (FHLs) benefit from many tax advantages when compared to long-term rental…
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Private Client and Trusts Webinar
7th January 2019
Posted in Articles, Featured Articles, Practice News, Private Client, Property Tax, Trusts and Estates by Forbes Dawson
Forbes Dawson partner, Laura Hutchinson, will be presenting two webinars on MBL over the next few months. Details of the webinars…
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Autumn Budget 2018
30th October 2018
Posted in Articles, Budget, Featured Articles by Forbes Dawson
Autumn Budget 2018 In his Budget speech yesterday Philip Hammond marked the ‘ending of austerity’. It is fair to say that…
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2018 Autumn Budget date announced
28th September 2018
Posted in Articles, Budget, Featured Articles by Forbes Dawson
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, announced this week that this year’s Budget will be brought forward to Monday, 29…
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New cash basis for landlords
17th August 2018
Posted in Articles, Featured Articles, Private Client, Property Tax by Forbes Dawson
As we approach the 2017/18 tax return season, it is worth recalling that it is the first tax year in which…
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No 3% SDLT surcharge for inter-spouse property transfers
20th July 2018
Posted in Articles, Featured Articles, Private Client, Property Tax by Forbes Dawson
The issue A common way to mitigate tax on rental income is to transfer a rental property to a lower tax-paying…
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HMRC attack property leaseholders who buy the freehold
22nd June 2018
Posted in Articles, Featured Articles, Property Tax by Forbes Dawson
The issue As stories of homeowners being caught out by unfair leasehold practices become more common, it is likely that many…
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