In the Tory leadership contest, Boris came out with a proposal to raise the Basic Rate Tax threshold to £80,000 (currently it is £50,000). This seemed like an outrageous and impractical proposition. At the time, some commentators saw it as an example of dead cat...
Having won the quiz at Bishops Stortford a month or two previously, we were invited to take part in The Helen Rollason Cancer Charity Corporate Quiz which took place on Thursday 11 July 2019 at the CloudFM County Ground in Chelmsford. As always, we were very pleased...
Following on from Lucy Orrow’s article on “Incorporating your Rental Business”, I thought I would share some common misconceptions that are made by clients when discussing the subject of Renral Income from Residential Property. I don’t need to declare my rental income...
The Statutory Residence Test has been around since 2013 and has given a proper basis for determining residence status. Our client left the UK in 2012 and subsequently made a large capital gain on the disposal of shares in a unlisted trading company. This was not...
Much is made of the reliefs available to spouses during the tax year of separation (see previous article Separation & Divorce) but what about afterwards? Particularly where children are included in the family unit, property can be an important asset in any...
At a recent UK200Group event in London, I was discussing the demand that was in the marketplace for services like Financial Mentoring. The person to whom I was chatting agreed that it wasn’t strong but that was probably because clients didn’t recognise what it was....
