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From garage to unicorn – Employment law lessons for scaling tech teams
Catherine Bourne
14 January 2015
“Tax doesn’t have to be taxing” … or does it?
In advance of the 31 January tax return deadline, HM Revenue and Customs (“HMRC”) have revealed some of the worst excuses used by taxpayers for missing the submission date.
18 December 2014
Buying and adapting a property for someone lacking mental capacity
Buying or selling a property is the most stressful aspect of modern life, worse than divorce, redundancy or bereavement, according to a recent poll. The process is even more complicated when buying a home for someone who lacks mental capacity.
4 December 2014
Changes to Capital Gains Tax treatment for purchases of residential property for non UK residents
The government has published a response to its consultation on extending capital gains tax (CGT) to non UK residents on disposals of UK residential property. The response confirms that non-residents will pay CGT on UK residential property disposals from 5 April 2015 onwards. This blog post explains these changes.
3 December 2014
Autumn Statement 2014 - Remittance basis charge changes
George Osborne MP, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has today announced changes to the remittance basis charge (“the RBC”) for non UK domiciled long-term UK residents.
The RBC is an annual charge payable by long-term UK residents who claim the remittance basis of taxation. Remittance basis taxation allows non UK domiciled individuals to pay income tax and capital gains tax on their overseas investment income and gains only if these income and gains are brought into the UK.
16 October 2014
“Death tax” and inherited pension pots – is it all about to change?
To some surprise, major changes to the tax treatment of pensions when left to another on death were announced by George Osborne MP, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at the recent Conservative Party conference.