Forbes Dawson names Tim Shaw as new Partner
25th May 2018
Posted in Practice News by Forbes Dawson
Forbes Dawson is proud to announce the addition of Tim Shaw as Partner. Tim joins the team with over 19 years…
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Good sense prevails in PPR claim!
23rd April 2018
Posted in Articles, Featured Articles, Private Client, Property Tax by Forbes Dawson
From time to time, HMRC has sought to apply tax legislation and their own guidance in an extremely literal and non-commonsensical way. This…
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Year-end Tax Planning – 5 April 2018
28th March 2018
Posted in Articles, Featured Articles, Private Client by Forbes Dawson
With the end of the 2017/18 tax year a little over a week away, the period leading up to 5 April…
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Lower SDLT for mixed use properties
2nd February 2018
Posted in Articles, Featured Articles, Property Tax by Forbes Dawson
The issue With more people looking to escape to the country, we have been seeing more clients who purchase rural properties…
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Dodgy excuses and expense claims
19th January 2018
Posted in Articles, Featured Articles, Private Client by Forbes Dawson
Excuses Every year, following the 31 January self-assessment (SA) deadline, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) receives a number of interesting excuses…
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The new improved Substantial Shareholdings Exemption
12th January 2018
Posted in Articles, Business Tax, Corporation Tax, Featured Articles by Forbes Dawson
The Substantial Shareholdings Exemption (‘SSE’) was introduced in 2002 as part of the government’s drive to make the UK a better…
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HMRC postpones deadline for registration of new trusts to 5 January 2018
27th November 2017
Posted in Articles, Trusts and Estates by Forbes Dawson
The issue HMRC’s online Trusts Registration Service (TRS) for agents has finally arrived after months of delay, but the latest hurdle…
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Autumn Budget 2017
22nd November 2017
Posted in Articles, Budget by Forbes Dawson
Today marked the first November Budget since 1996. Back then, Ken Clarke cut a penny off the basic rate of income tax,…
Read moreAn Entrepreneurs’ Relief muddle … resolved
15th September 2017
Posted in Articles, Business Tax, Featured Articles, Private Client by Forbes Dawson
Conflicting tax cases In May we highlighted two Tribunal decisions which looked into the issue of whether certain types of share…
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What a relief for investors!
1st September 2017
Posted in Articles, Business Tax, Featured Articles, Private Client by Forbes Dawson
Announced in last year’s Budget, Investors’ Relief (‘IR’) is a new relief available to shareholders who sell shares of unlisted companies….
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