Last week the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published 2018 data on UK R&D expenditure. Research and Development Tax Credits continue to provide one of the most generous tax reliefs available to UK companies. The ONS publication must help to make sure that...
Last week was another in which readers received a Newsletter full of the “t” word, plus copious coverage of all our Political Parties’ fiscal pledges. Tax Tuesday therefore resists a technical offering today. Instead we take you down memory lane with Historical Taxes...
Until quite recently, Tax Tuesday might have outlined the options for a company owner’s “exit” in terms of a trade sale, a management buy-out, a family succession, and (in exceptional circumstances) a flotation. Since 2014, however, we have had Selling to an Employee...
It’s about saving your clients tax, isn’t it? A conversation with the MD of an engineering company last week confirmed something which the author of Tax Tuesday has long known to be true. Until a client has received good tax advice and planning, they typically don’t...
The long-term march towards an overwhelmingly incorporated UK continues unabated. Only very recently, City AM reported that 4,890 out of 10,400 UK law firms (ie 47%) are now operating as limited companies, up from 32% five years ago. Even in the professions, the...
In a week when YouGov tells us that 74% of Dads tax our own children by helping ourselves to the candy (because we’ve earned it), our blog-post offers readers a Trick and a Treat. The following is for everyone (except, perhaps, the 4% of parents who allegedly eat all...
