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We are often asked by self-employed clients to explain why their tax bills are high in proportion to the amount they withdraw from their business

The government has proposed a wide-ranging ban to prevent pension scams. The consultation listed the sorts of phone conversations that the government intends to fall

This is a question we are regularly asked by clients. Usually, the conversation is triggered when we discuss the end of year accounts. Before we

On the face of it, the rent-a-room relief is straight forward: if your gross rents from letting are not more than £7,500 in the current

Whilst it is possible to involve your children in your business, this is a strategy that should be approached with caution. Giving shares in your

We are often asked to register a trading name for an existing company. Usually, this is done so an incorporated business can develop a new

If you are employed, or receive a pension from a non-State provider, any tax you should pay is probably deducted before payment under the PAYE

Many people die without making a Will. In legal terms, this means they die “intestate”. When this happens, the estate must be shared out according

No-one is going to complain if you pay more than the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage rates – which ever applies. However, there

Making Tax Digital (MTD) is the government’s latest attempt to fully digitise the process of collecting data from taxpayers so they can speed up the

1 August 2017 – Due date for Corporation Tax due for the year ended 31 October 2016. 19 August 2017 – PAYE and NIC deductions

It is possible to claim for the cost of repairing or replacing small tools you need to do your job as an employee (for example,

There is a government department, the Office for Tax Simplification (OTS), that has been charged with investigating ways that the UK’s tax rules can be

There has been a long running tax case rumbling through the lower courts on the use of a device called an Employee Benefit Trust (EBT)