For 2016/17 using your basic personal tax-free allowance, starting tax rate and the new zero rate bands for savings income and dividends allows you to engineer up to £22,000 tax free. How is it done?
Published 28.06.2016
The end of the tax year is almost here and it’s time to check your tax position. You may have room to take more tax-efficient income from your company, or you might discover you’ve overdone it. What
steps can you take to rescue the situation?
Published 18.03.2024
Latest statistics show that many couples are overlooking their entitlement to the marriage allowance which allows the transfer of unused personal allowances between them. HMRC’s guidance might be
partly to blame. What’s the full story?
Published 02.02.2017
Towards the end of 2020 one of our subscribers claimed the marriage allowance. After several weeks HMRC responded by refusing his claim and giving bogus reasons. What steps can our subscriber take to
get the allowance he’s entitled to?
Published 10.02.2021
New tax-free allowances will be given to shareholders and investors from 6 April 2016. How might these affect your tax bill and is there any planning you can do?
Published 24.02.2016
In response to political pressure over the abolition of the 10% tax rate, the Chancellor has announced some late tax changes. How should you, in turn, respond?
Published 05.06.2008
The government has at last decided how much transferable tax allowances will be worth and how you can qualify for them. But if you don’t meet the conditions is there an alternative way you can
achieve the same or a better tax saving?
Published 15.10.2013
Mr Osborne backed up some stark warnings in his Budget with serious tweaks to the tax regime. Here’s our take on a couple of the most important changes.
Published 07.07.2010
In the last Budget the Chancellor announced age-related tax-free allowances would be phased out, but this won’t take full effect until 2015. If you’ll be 65 by next April, how can you make the most
of higher allowances while they last?
Published 25.10.2012