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As the end of the tax year approaches, there are a number of employer returns to be submitted to HMRC related to benefits and expenses provided to employees.

*This article was written prior to the announcement that the implementation of the Off-Payroll Working rules are being delayed to April 2021.

Woodlands are currently potentially more profitable than they have been previously, possibly more so than they have been in ‘living memory’.

Attitudes to inheritance tax (IHT) vary hugely. The strong emotions it inspires must, at least partly, be linked to deaths of parents and the value of homes.

Executors of someone UK domiciled whose surviving spouse or civil partner is, or has been, non-domiciled may need to explore the deceased’s financial history for much more than the last seven years

The introduction of Pension Freedoms brought about the widening of the range of potential beneficiaries on death in the form of the beneficiaries’ drawdown, and the removal of any cap on income wit

The British press has been full of headlines on inheritance tax this year, targeting in particular the baby boomer generation who have fortuitously increased their estates over their lifetime, larg

In January 2018, Chancellor Philip Hammond asked the Office of Tax Simplification to review inheritance tax. The key part of his letter said:

The new rules for the tax and Class 1 National Insurance contributions (NIC) treatment of termination payments took effect from 6 April 2018.

It is tempting to think of the minimum wage legislation as not being a problem for any business paying more than the following hourly rates, or equivalent annual salaries, to its employees.