SDLT exemption for when employer buys employee’s house!
11th May 2018 | Posted in Articles, Featured Articles, Property Tax by Andrew Marr
Attempting to relocate a key employee can often run the risk of losing that employee altogether. What can appear to be…
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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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Mind the Gap: EMI options cannot be granted now!
16th April 2018 | Posted in Articles, Employee Incentive Arrangements, Employment Tax, Featured Articles by Tom Minnikin
Last week HMRC published an Employment Related Securities bulletin that could have important consequences for companies which offer EMI options, and…
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The new regime for corporation tax losses
6th April 2018 | Posted in Articles, Corporation Tax, Featured Articles by Tom Minnikin
Happy New Tax Year to everyone! We start the first tax bite of 2018/19 on a positive note, with a look…
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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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Take care with Employee Shareholder Status (ESS) shares
23rd March 2018 | Posted in Articles, Employee Incentive Arrangements, Employment Tax, Featured Articles by Andrew Marr
The issue ESS was an arrangement under which employees entered into agreements to vary their employment rights in consideration for the…
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Dodd’s planning leaves diddy IHT bill
16th March 2018 | Posted in Articles, Featured Articles, Inheritance Tax, Trusts and Estates by Andrew Marr
The national papers have made much of Ken Dodd ‘having the last laugh’ by marrying Anne, his partner of 40 years…
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Beware of disapplied VAT option to tax
9th March 2018 | Posted in Articles, Featured Articles, VAT by Andrew Marr
Option to tax ‘disapplications’ When a commercial property is sold the default position is that this will be exempt for VAT…
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The dark side of ISAs
23rd February 2018 | Posted in Articles, Featured Articles, Private Client by Andrew Marr
Individual savings accounts (ISAs) are well known as a highly tax efficient savings wrapper. In 2017/2018 tax payers can invest up…
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Employee shareholder status (ESS) shareholders hate corporate restructuring!
16th February 2018 | Posted in Articles, Employee Incentive Arrangements, Employment Tax, Featured Articles by Andrew Marr
Background ESS was an arrangement under which employees entered into agreements to vary their employment rights in consideration for the receipt…
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