Allocating revenue and capital expenditure between the co-owners of a property
Government plans to reduce administrative costs to business by £10bn will fail unless the complexity of the tax code is tackled, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) has warned.
Two of the UK’s three longest Finance Acts were enacted in the previous parliament, the ICAEW notes in a letter to the chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, while calling for a “one in, two out” principle to apply to tax laws.
Conditions for claiming personal tax reliefs
The problems of obtaining details of income and capital from investment managers
Changes to tax breaks designed to promote investment in small and growing firms will deter investors from taking advantage, according to the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT).
The professional body warned that new legislation creates greater complexity and denies relief to existing financiers that want to increase their investments.
How to terminate a partnership’s unfunded and unapproved pension scheme
Calculating the tax-free payment from a SIPP that holds commercial property
A trust of property was intended but not evidenced in writing at purchase
The Pensions Regulator has announced plans for a new auto-enrolment solution to help employers that currently use HMRC’s basic PAYE tools.
The proposals, set out in a consultation document, explain how pensions officials would prefer for employers to buy appropriate payroll software, rather than rely on the Revenue’s free offering, which will not be updated to provide automatic enrolment functionality.
Changes to the tax regime for unauthorised unit trusts are the subject of new guidance released by HMRC.
A trust with at least one exempt unit holder and one non-exempt unit holder for the period from 24 May 2012 to 5 April 2014 will be a mixed unauthorised unit trust, and will complete its tax return (SA900) in the same way as for earlier tax years.
Pension contributions can benefit low-earning taxpayers
Does title need to be split when building a new home in the garden of the existing one?