Yesterday I was at St James’s Palace for the Silver iDEA Award launch with members of the Small Business Saturday community: It was a superb event, attended by a wide variety of people who are seeing great benefits from the iDEA awards. I have completed the Bronze and the Silver myself – also achieving the […]
Residential Property Capital Gains Tax payment timescale changes
From 6th April 2020, there are changes to how capital gains tax(CGT) on residential property is reported and paid. Rather than at present, where the details are reported in the next tax return and the tax paid the following 31st January, there will only be 30 days to submit a CGT return and make a […]
Changes to HMRC rent a room tax relief now cancelled
I reported back in July 2018 that HMRC were planning to change the rent a room relief rules so that it would only apply in cases where the owner occupied the property at the same time. However, it has just been announced in the 2018 October Budget that these planned changes have been cancelled. Rent […]
Main residence tax relief changes from April 2020
There are two allowances that will be changing from April 2020 onwards. These only affect people who have taxable gains on their main residence. 1) Lettings relief – this is an additional relief available (up to a limit of £40,000) to those who have lived in a property as their main residence that is being […]
VAT registration limit remains the same for 2 years from 2020/21
There had been worries that the VAT registration limit (£85,000pa) would be reduced – increasing costs for people not able to reclaim VAT as well as forcing more people into the quarterly tax returns that start next year for those who are VAT registered. While the position will be kept under review, there is now […]