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Lease extensions and the 3% surcharge

The issue The 3% SDLT surcharge has been with us for eight years now and the basic rules are as follows: 1. Trusts

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SDLT on in specie distributions

The issue There are often cases where it is beneficial to transfer assets from one company to another as a distribution. When

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Child’s occupation of ATED property can lead to a n...

The issue The Annual Tax on Enveloped Dwellings (‘ATED’) is a yearly charge applying to high-value residential property which is held by

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Employee Pensions – The Most Common Unclaimed Tax Relief?

In the long list of tax reliefs that seems to be most widely misunderstood and unclaimed, employee pension contributions must be right

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Abolition of Multiple Dwellings Relief does not prevent r...

The issue On 6 March 2024 the Chancellor announced that Multiple Dwellings Relief (MDR) was to be abolished from 1 June 2024

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Foreign law matters when a non-UK resident company purcha...

The issue In UK law a company can purchase its own shares from its shareholders. The question then arises about how this

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Don’t forget about employee shareholder capital gai...

The issue Employee shareholder status (ESS) was introduced on 6 April 2013 and was a very generous employee share incentive. Broadly it

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Can you utilise your pensions annual allowance for a tax ...

The issue Most people are aware of the annual allowance which exists for pension contributions.  In years up to 2022/23 the annual

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Take a cheap mortgage from your company!

The issue Perhaps surprisingly, HMRC has announced that the official rate of interest (ORI) for employee loans will remain at only 2.25%

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Spread bet your way to a tax-free remittance?

The issue The remittance basis of taxation can apply to non-UK domiciled individuals. This means that in certain tax years they could

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Business Asset Disposal Relief (‘BADR’) for 4.9% sharehol...

The issue When shareholders seek to claim the special 10% BADR capital gains tax rate it is a fairly well-established principle that

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Double trouble when winding down unwanted offshore proper...

The issue It used to be common practice for non-domiciled individuals to hold UK residential property through an offshore company. That way,