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Registered pension scheme reforms: abolition of the lifetime allowance
The tax landscape for UK registered pension schemes has been evolving rapidly since the Spring Budget on 15 March 2023, when the chancellor announced an increase in the annual allowance and, mo
Basis period reform rules for unincorporated businesses: impact on student finances
Basis period reform means that all unincorporated businesses must move to reporting their business profits on a tax year basis from the 2024/25 tax year with a transition tax year in 2023/24.
Transfer of assets abroad: the boundaries of the rules
The transfer of assets abroad legislation (variously abbreviated to ToAA and TAA) was first enacted in 1936.
Autumn Statement 2023: how well does the fiscal arithmetic add up?
The rumours before Jeremy Hunt’s 2023 Autumn Statement were quite varied.
Plastic packaging tax: consultation on chemical recycling and adoption of a mass balance approach
Currently, recycled plastic sourced from a mechanical reclamation route can be used to evidence that plastic packaging meets the 30% plastic packaging tax (PPT) relief threshold test.
Private residence relief: a matter of construction
Private residence relief has been a feature of capital gains tax since the charge was introduced in the Finance Act 1965.
Charitable giving and tax: dispelling the myths
Only a quarter (26%) of high net worth individuals (HNWIs) say that an adviser has raised the topic of charitable giving with them in the past, yet two in five believe it is important to discu
Statutory residence test: the exceptional circumstances rule
In the July 2022 issue of Tax Adviser, I wrote about the anonymised First-tier Tribunal decision of A Taxpayer v HMRC [2022] UKFTT 133 (TC) concerning the UK residence status
