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One danger with a blog that runs monthly is that some juicy, relevant topics can come and go in the public’s attention before we’ve even planned the next post.  On the other hand, a view taken [...]

A couple of weeks ago, a piece in Taxation magazine got me thinking.  It was about the tax relief for selling your main home (the tax technical name is Principal Private Residence relief or PPR [...]

Below is a summary of items announced that may be relevant to FSL clients. For more detail, please refer to the GOV.UK website. Personal Tax: National Insurance threshold increase: From July the [...]

On the 1st March, the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) and the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) ran a joint online debate on the proposal for a windfall tax on the profits of North Sea [...]

Welcome to the first edition of Tax Talk.  To ease in to the series, this month we will take a general look at some of the common tax-efficient investments out there.  This is only a brief [...]

Welcome to Tax Talk, a new blog which will cover all things from EIS to OTS, written by FSL’s own Tax specialist, Alex Ranahan. This series of articles will provide Alex’s thoughts on different [...]

The Treasury have formally replied to the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) on the recommendations put forward in their May 2021 report on the review of Capital Gains Tax (CGT).  The full [...]

Though the budget didn’t include the anticipated changes to CGT as suggested in the Office of Tax Simplification’s May 2021 report, one recommendation was announced.  The deadline for reporting [...]

Below is a summary of items announced that may be relevant to FSL clients. For more detail, please refer to the GOV.UK website and the Overview of Tax Legislation and Rates (OOTLAR) published by [...]

Last week, the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) published its latest report that investigated the potential to move the date of tax year end. It examined 31st December and 31st March options, [...]