The Chancellor has delivered his Spring Budget.
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Wednesday 6 March 2024
In the Autumn Statement last year, the Chancellor delivered on rumours with a package of reductions in national insurance for the UK’s workforce. Jeremy Hunt continues to back his previous statements and further clarified his view that to improve the economy, job vacancies must be filled, and for job vacancies to be filled, employment taxes should be more straightforward and more fair
The high income child benefit charge (HICBC) operates to claw back child benefit from high income households.
A change to non-dom taxation, naturally will lead to an alteration to foreign trusts.
The 2024 Spring Budget promised ’permanent tax cuts’; an oversimplification perhaps! Firstly, because permanence in politics and economics is unrealistic, but also because the promised tax cuts do not solely relate to tax rates but also tax reliefs.
Whist the Chancellor claimed inspiration from Nigel Lawson’s announcements of 1988, some would view this as a reaction to Labour’s well publicised criticism of certain tax advantages available only to non-doms.
After a build-up of media speculation, and furnished holiday let (FHL) owners’ anticipation, the Chancellor declared the straightforward, but impactful, measure to increase the number of long term lets available to the UK residential tenant market by abolishing the FHL preferential tax regime.
The annual VAT taxable turnover threshold at which a business is required to register for VAT will increase from £85,000 to £90,000 from 1 April 2024. Read more Budget announcements on business taxes in our article.
It was a statement all about having a plan, with various accusations of Labour’s complete lack of one, in a clear push to encourage voters to not abandon the Conservatives later on this year.
Monday 4 March 2024
As a day nursery operator, and with the end of another tax year fast approaching, now is a good time to take stock and consider whether all allowances and reliefs have been maximised as far as possible.
Thursday 29 February 2024
Is this the year you decide to sell your business, tempted by new and exciting opportunities on the horizon?
Tuesday 27 February 2024
Smart Numbers Ltd, which has helped thousands of small business owners to grow their companies by providing innovative telecom solutions and trackable marketing services, has been acquired by private equity house YFM Equity Partners.
Thursday 22 February 2024
The annual tax on enveloped dwellings (ATED) rules apply to UK residential properties held in a company with a value in excess of £500,000 and an annual charge applies unless certain reliefs or exemptions can be claimed.