One of your friends is looking for investors in his company and has offered you shares in it. You’re going to buy them, but is it more tax efficient for you to do so through your own company or
personally?
Published 25.10.2016
Interest rates on savings are currently derisory, yet your business is paying through the nose for its overdraft facility. Can you use your personal money to save your company costs and generate
tax-efficient income?
Published 31.03.2017
Tax and financial advisors are working hard on ways to escape the new higher rates of income tax that will apply from next April. These include ideas to make use of lower Capital Gains Tax (CGT)
rates. Is this something you should consider?
Published 10.07.2009
The growing use of cyber money has forced HMRC to issue a statement regarding the tax effects for businesses and individuals. If you make a transaction in a currency other than sterling, what are the
tax consequences?
Published 20.03.2014
One of our subscribers came up with a neat plan to dodge the benefit-in-kind (BiK) rules when transferring assets from his company. He reckoned that by passing them direct to his wife he could save
both tax and NI. But was he right?
Published 15.06.2010
Your company has some spare cash that you were planning to withdraw and personally invest in quoted shares. But a colleague has suggested that your company could make that investment itself. Is there
a tax advantage here?
Published 19.06.2008
A tribunal recently considered the tax consequences of a director investing company money into his personal bank account. The judgment didn’t go well for the director, but does this ruling mean this
type of scheme can never work?
Published 13.12.2012
Gold is still the investment of choice for many. But if you want to get in on the act, what’s the best option to keep the Taxman from sharing in your profit. Should you buy Sovereigns, Krugerrands,
bullion or just shares in a gold mine?
Published 12.11.2010
If you’re lucky enough to have £50,000 in the bank, you can receive interest without tax being deducted. However, the Budget announced the end of this tax break. Are there other ways to receive gross
interest, and on much smaller deposits?
Published 18.04.2011
Your student son has started using Bitcoin. Now he tells you he’s done quite nicely buying and selling. So to prove you’re older and wiser, is there some good advice you can give him about the tax
consequences?
Published 09.04.2018