IHT tax receipts breaks records again hitting £5.4bn
Inheritance tax receipts have increased to a record £5.4 billion in the 2018/19 tax year according to HM Revenue and Customs figures published in late April. Receipts increased by around £160 million in just a year from £5.2 billion in…
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Details of new HMRC restrictions on CGT private residence relief
HMRC has launched a consultation on changes to private residence relief from capital gains tax that were announced at Budget 2018. As from 6 April 2020, lettings relief will be restricted to owners who share occupancy with a tenant. Lettings relief…
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Tony Benn’s estate reduces estates inheritance tax by £210,000 – Planning Tip.
The archive of the late Tony Benn has been donated to the British Library under the acceptance in lieu scheme, allowing his family to reduce a substantial inheritance tax bill. The enormous collection, comprising several hundred thousand documents and recordings…
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Reform of Inheritance Tax System???
Chancellor Philip Hammond wrote to the Office of Tax Simplification in January last year asking it to review inheritance tax. In a report published in November 2018, the OTS recommended the government implement a fully integrated digital system for IHT….
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Tony Benn’s estate reduces inheritance tax by £210,000 – Planning Tip.
The archive of the late Tony Benn has been donated to the British Library under the acceptance in lieu scheme, allowing his family to reduce a substantial inheritance tax bill. The enormous collection, comprising several hundred thousand documents and recordings…
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Inheritance Tax & Agriculture: Wine & Apples!!!
A special relief from inheritance tax is afforded to land that is occupied “for the purposes of agriculture”. The term is not exhaustively defined – no doubt the parliamentary draftsman thought that unnecessary and that, like an elephant, you would…
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Half of over-45s unaware their main property is subject to IHT
The lack of awareness around inheritance tax (IHT) in the UK has increased in the last year, with half (50%) of over-45s admitting to be unaware their main property could be subject to IHT. According to Canada Life’s latest edition…
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Tax returns are often left to the last moment. But just how last minute do we actually leave it?
In a study into UK tax return statistics, GoSimpleTax have compiled a dataset of their own findings and HMRC reports to reveal the tax return habits of the UK. The company reveals that one of the times with the most…
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Business Property Relief and Property: The Latest
It is well known that HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) are very reluctant indeed to allow business property relief for inheritance tax where the business is that of letting property. HMRC have consistently taken the view that while the letting…
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