Tax | Business splitting to save VAT

Neil Warren CTA (Fellow) ATT considers the pros and cons of splitting businesses to reduce VAT liability, with a warning about HMRC’s powers to treat separate entities as a single registration for VAT purposes if they are closely connected 

20 Nov 2025

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VAT

Tax Compliance

Tax | Q&A: how to secure film tax relief

In this week’s Q&A, David Lawson, tax adviser at Croneri VIP Tax Team, explains the process for claiming film tax credits for upcoming productions filmed in both UK and overseas locations

18 Nov 2025

Tax

Business Tax

Tax Compliance

Tax Planning

Tax | Christmas hustlers risk big tax bills

People selling homemade crafts and Christmas cards at markets this December need to keep within the £1,000 side hustle threshold, or face a demand from HMRC

12 Nov 2025

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Personal Tax

HMRC

Tax Compliance

Tax | Q&A: business property relief and trusts

In this week’s Q&A, Kiya Jacobs, tax adviser at Croner-i VIP Tax Team, explains timing issues of using business property relief (BPR) before £1m cap comes into effect

11 Nov 2025

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Business Tax

Tax Compliance

Tax Planning

Tax | Tax implications of employees remote working overseas

Work location has the potential to dramatically increase exposure to tax and employment law regulations, while even triggering permanent establishment rules, warns Davyd Fisher, partner at Grant Thornton

10 Nov 2025

Tax

Employment Tax

International Tax

Tax Compliance

Tax Planning

Tax | Understanding the tax implications of buying crypto

A surge in HMRC letters to crypto investors is causing widespread concern about a lack of awareness about their individual tax liability, warns Neil Tipping, lead tax enquiry consultant at Croner-i VIP Tax Team

6 Nov 2025

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Personal Tax

HMRC

Tax Compliance

Tax | Q&A: tax and share buybacks

In this week’s Q&A, Croner-I tax adviser Vivienne Cheung explains tax implications of purchase of own shares from corporate shareholder

4 Nov 2025

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Business Tax

Tax Compliance

Tax Planning

Tax | Farmers need inheritance tax transitional gifting rule

Older farmers and family business owners should have more time to prepare for changes to inheritance tax with a transitional gifting rule as seven-year window might be too tight, warns tax experts

31 Oct 2025

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Inheritance Tax

Tax Compliance

Tax Planning

Tax | Letter blitz as HMRC cracks down on crypto investors

In a big push to improve tax compliance, HMRC sent out over 65,000 nudge letters to hobby crypto traders it suspects of underpaying tax on gains, while holders not clear about tax rules

30 Oct 2025

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Personal Tax

HMRC

Tax Compliance

Tax | Paper tax return deadline on 31 October final reminder

Any taxpayers still doing a paper self assessment tax return must file their 2024-25 forms by Friday 31 October, which means getting them in the post sharpish

24 Oct 2025

Tax

Personal Tax

HMRC

Tax Compliance

Tax | Register for webinar on pensions and tax

Sign up for our expert webinar on 28 October exploring the pension tax questions keeping you up at night

23 Oct 2025

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Personal Tax

Inheritance Tax

Tax Compliance

Tax Planning

Tax | Q&A: higher rate stamp duty on spousal property sale

In this week’s Q&A, Marsha Haywood, adviser at Croner-i VIP Tax Team, explains liability for higher rate stamp duty land tax on replacement of main residence by spouse

21 Oct 2025

Tax

Property Tax

Tax Compliance

Tax | HMRC clarifies NI calculation method for directors

Directors on PAYE are being warned to check their National Insurance contributions (NICs) are correctly calculated to reflect any changes to previous tax years as two cuts in rate occurred

17 Oct 2025

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Employment Tax

HMRC

Tax Compliance

Tax | Q&A: tax and buy to let sale

In this week’s Q&A, Ria Dhillon, tax adviser at Croner-i VIP Tax Team, explains the tax implications when selling a buy to let residential property when an option is granted

14 Oct 2025

Tax

Property Tax

Tax Compliance

Tax | HMRC Connect tool brings in record £4.6bn in unpaid tax

All powerful data analysis tool Connect raises additional £4.6bn in single year as thousands of HMRC staff use the big data network to root out non-compliant taxpayers

9 Oct 2025

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Business Tax

Personal Tax

HMRC

Tax Compliance