Tax | Holly Willoughby’s company settles £377k tax bill

TV presenter Holly Willoughby did not turn up at the High Court for a hearing on whether to wind up her jointly owned Roxy Media over unpaid tax bills

17 Apr 2025

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Tax | HMRC chases Canadian taxpayer for £600

The First Tier Tribunal dismissed an appeal against late filing penalties which built up against a PAYE employee who failed to show up to the hearing

16 Apr 2025

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Case Reports

Tax | What are subcontracted activities for SME R&D tax relief?

HMRC has clarified the rules on the definition of subcontracted activities in R&D tax claims by SMEs, finally dispelling the confusion, explains Richard Edwards, CEO of R&D Community

16 Apr 2025

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Tax Planning

Tax | Teething problems for HMRC’s simple assessment for tax

Stephanie Court, tax director at RSM, warns there is a risk that HMRC is trying to move too far, too fast on digital transformation, by removing more people from self assessment without always having the correct data to calculate tax liability

16 Apr 2025

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Tax | Downing Street publishes PM’s 2024 tax return

The Prime Minister paid over 35% in income tax in the 2024 tax year, while his deputy paid an effective rate of 25%

15 Apr 2025

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Tax | Q&A: tax breaks of marriage allowance

In this week’s Q&A, our Croner-i tax adviser explains the ins and outs of claims for the marriage allowance, backdating options and implications of divorce

15 Apr 2025

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Personal Tax

Tax Planning

Tax | Black box supplier loses £2m VAT dispute for third time

The Court of Appeal has thrown out a VAT claim by a provider of black box telemetry systems for young drivers, rejecting £2m claim for input tax refund, saying to rule otherwise would be ‘height of artificiality’

15 Apr 2025

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Tax | Tax bill for £1.5m Hayling Island property as annexe not mixed use

Annexe of a five-bed house in Hayling Island cannot be used as a separate dwelling as it does not have amenities fit for living and ‘not reasonable’ for guests to use the property’s pool room

14 Apr 2025

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Tax | Register for webinar on national minimum wage salary calculations

Sign up for our webinar on how to calculate non-standard salary payments for NMW on 15 April

14 Apr 2025

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Training & CPD

Tax | Over 1.1m savers already hit by tax on savings

High interest rates and frozen personal savings allowance means that more than a million extra savers could be caught by having to pay tax, as HMRC letters land on doormats

14 Apr 2025

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Personal Tax

Tax Compliance

Tax | Former chancellor Jeremy Hunt given knighthood

Jeremy Hunt has been knighted in Rishi Sunak’s resignation honours list as is former Treasury secretary Mel Stride, who at one time had responsibility for HMRC and the loan charge

11 Apr 2025

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Politics

Business | 2025 key regulatory dates you need to know

Tim Pinkney, director of professional standards at the Institute of Financial Accountants (IFA) runs through the key deadlines that will impact clients 

11 Apr 2025

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Tax | South Kensington mansion deemed residential for £500k SDLT bill

A pharmacist has lost his stamp duty land tax appeal at tribunal as the £6.6m property he purchased was deemed to be wholly used for residential purposes despite occupation restrictions

10 Apr 2025

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Case Reports

Tax | Tax tips: seven stages of self employment

Chris Thorpe, technical officer at the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) provides tips and tax advice to consider when setting up and running a new business 

9 Apr 2025

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Tax | Fraudulent claims force HMRC to close repayment phonelines

Due to suspected fraud HMRC has temporarily closed the phonelines and webchat services for self assessment taxpayers to file repayment requests but would not share details

9 Apr 2025

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