Monthly Archive: February 2015
23rd February 2015
The freedom to take all your pension as cash on retirement has made the headlines, but the government’s scrapping of the so-called pension ‘death tax’ could have an equally dramatic effect once the implications are more widely appreciated. The so-called…
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12th February 2015
A tax tribunal has upheld a legal ruling against a Stamp Duty Land Tax avoidance scheme, protecting up to £123 million in tax. Scheme user Project Blue Ltd had appealed against an earlier First Tier Tribunal decision relating to its…
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10th February 2015
The government is intending to consult further on restricting the entitlement of non-UK residents to the UK personal allowance. No changes will be made before April 2017 and so the position should remain unchanged for the current tax year and…
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10th February 2015
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls has announced that a Labour administration would introduce a tax on homes worth more than £2 million in its first budget, so that the Treasury could begin to collect money from what is estimated to be…
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