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Tax checklist for fans of Sgt. Pepper

31 May 2017 / Richard Curtis
Issue: 4601 / Categories: Comment & Analysis

It was 50 years ago...

KEY POINTS

  • Can music provide food for thought for tax?
  • Has there been a 20-year anniversary of an option to tax?
  • Business structures have important tax implications
  • The question of capital or revenue still causes problems.
  • When claiming losses ensure there is a commercial trade.
  • Differentiating permanent and temporary workplaces.

Readers of a certain age will know that 1 June 2017 marks 50 years ago since Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play. I know there are bigger selling records than the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and more popular ones but if we are talking about records that set a bar that others wanted to exceed this is it. The NME will criticise it for being twee and perhaps in hindsight it’s not the Beatles LP that you’d take...

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