Employees (including directors) laid off due to a business being sold or closed down, can be entitled to statutory redundancy payments that are TAX FREE up to £30,000. The redundancy payment is calculated based on payroll wages, age and time worked for the business. This causes a problem for owner directors as they are most …
Given the average price of housing at the moment one of the biggest costs to moving or acquiring a buy-to-let investment is the stamp duty payable. If you are acquiring a 2nd property for say £500k the stamp duty alone would be an eye-watering £30k Wouldn’t it be great if you could reduce this, well …
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With the introduction of the S.24 mortgage interest relief restriction coming in a few years ago, the standard practice seems to be purchase any new buy-to-let via a Ltd co structure. However this isn’t always the best course of action, for example, if you were looking for a regular income from the rental profits then …
One of the effects of the Covid pandemic meant that working from has become more common. For this reason, you may wish to claim some of the associated costs of gas, electricity etc against your business or employment income. However, you may have been told that using your home as an office will mean you …
When you eventually sell your holiday home any gain made from property (sale – purchase price) is likely to be subject to CGT. However, you can use principal private residence (PPR) relief to mitigate some of these gains where you have a 2nd home. This is done by a process called an election, whereby you …
It’s an all too common scenario where friends start a business and all is well for a few years. After which they start having different ideas about the direction the business should take or concerns about who is contributing the most, so on… Now it could either be that one partner decides to buy the …
So you probably already know that once your business becomes VAT registered you can start reclaiming the VAT paid on purchases. However in addition you may also be able to recover VAT that was incurred months or even years ago. This falls into two categories: Goods/Equipment – you can claim the VAT back from the …
You might think that it is better to start a new company, as profits a generally taxed at lower rates than unincorporated businesses. However, where there are early-year losses the company can only carry these losses forward against future profits. And if the venture fails then any loss relief will have been lost In this …
Ordinarily, the mortgage interest you pay on a home is not an allowable deduction against your income for tax purposes. However, if you have built up some value in your company over the years, then with a bit of re-structuring you could get tax relief on the mortgage interest. This would work as follows: 1. …
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So you have just helped your son’s football team with a sponsorship payment from your company. In the past HMRC have declined tax relief on these payments as they argued the reason was more of a personal donation than something that would benefit their business. To avoid this situation it is advisable to ask the …
Crypto is classified as an asset which means when you come to sell them you will be subject to capital gains tax. However, with a bit of year-end planning, this can be minimised. In years gone by you can use your annual CGT allowance to effectively sell assets such as shares and buy them back …
In recent years house prices have gone through the roof and if you have owned the property for a decent amount of time then you will likely be facing a hefty CGT bill on sale. However with a bit of planning your liability could be reduced somewhat, here are a few options: If you are …
Generally, any work you do for your Ltd and you are paid for will count as employment earnings or dividends. However, if say the work was sufficiently different to your normal duties (say giving the offices a lick of paint) and you negotiated the terms of the work with the other directors then any payment …
You would love to buy that property, the problem is you don’t have that much in personal savings to stump up a deposit, as all your cash is sitting in your Ltd co bank account. Of course, you could draw this out as salary or dividends, but much of that cash would be lost to …
Are you planning to eventually buy out your business partner and co-director? Make sure you do so tax efficiently.. So you have agreed a fair price, the trouble is you now need to find the cash to pay them. Assuming you don’t have the spare funds lying around you may need to secure a loan …