The new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, delivered his first Budget speech on 11 March 2020. The Budget was understandably overshadowed by news coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. It also...
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Mark McLaughlin
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Property Tax Conference 2019 Report
Mark McLaughlin reports from our recent Property Tax Conference. Date: 27 November 2019 Location: Birmingham Speakers reported: Pete Miller, The Miller Partnership Peter...
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Taxation of Owner-Managed Businesses Conference 2019 Report
Mark McLaughlin reports from our recent Taxation of Owner Managed Businesses Conference. Date: 24 September 2019 Location: Leeds Speakers reported: Pete Miller, The Miller...
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Inheritance tax: All change?
There is a feeling amongst many practitioners and taxpayers that IHT is too complicated to properly understand and administer.
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Buy-to-let owners: an anti-avoidance trap?
Most individual buy-to-let UK residential property owners will probably assume that the straightforward purchase and subsequent sale of buy-to-let residential property is a capital transaction,...
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The Finance Bill: here we go again!
Mark McLaughlin highlights some important provisions in the latest Finance Bill and notes some other measures still to come.
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The Busy Practitioner: Pay up …sooner!
The government has made no secret of its approach that ‘sooner is better’ when it comes to tax receipts into the Exchequer. In particular, legislation is to be introduced (in Finance Act 2019)...
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IR35: The Saga Continues...
Hopes were raised that the Government would take the opportunity in the Budget on 23 March 2011 to abolish IR35 – the intermediaries legislation variously described as the ‘personal service company’...
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