by David Jones | Mar 4, 2021 | Business Tax, Opinion, Personal Finance, Personal Tax Planning, Self Assessment, VAT
Charles Blondin, whose name is synonymous with tightrope walking, has a new rival in Rishi Sunak, whose budget on Wednesday was a masterclass in walking a fiscal tightrope. The Chancellor was seeing government debt shooting up to near record levels, with the...
by David Jones | Aug 6, 2020 | Payroll Services, Personal Finance, Personal Tax Planning, Self Assessment
This week’s blog, I’m looking at work-related benefits and the P11D form, what to include on the application, when you need to file it and what will happen if you don’t! What is a P11D? The P11D is a tax form filed by United Kingdom employers for...
by David Jones | Nov 8, 2019 | Comments on Global News, Personal Tax Planning
As a UK-based owner of a property in Spain, I was shocked to find out this week that owners of Spanish properties will pay higher income tax after Brexit and may also lose the right to an exemption from capital gains tax arising on the sale of a former home. I...
by David Jones | Jun 21, 2019 | Family Tax Credits, Personal Finance, Personal Tax Planning
Today it has been announced that HMRC has cancelled over 6,000 penalties issued to parents who failed to notify the tax authority that they had to pay the high income child benefit charge (HICBC). This charge is designed to claw back child benefit paid to families...
by David Jones | Apr 11, 2019 | Accounts, Business Regulation, Business Tax, Personal Finance, Personal Tax Planning, Self Assessment
The new 2019/20 Tax Year started last week and as usual there are a number of changes, which may well affect you. In most years these changes would be plastered all over the TV news or the newspapers, but unfortunately at the moment the press appears to be obsessed...
by David Jones | Jan 25, 2019 | Business Tax, Personal Finance, Personal Tax Planning, Self Assessment
Tales from the Tax Return Season Any accountant who has endured the onslaught of the self-assessment tax season has that one year that stands out in their personal hall of infamy. Yes, the stress of a mountain of tax returns is not enough; sometimes the...