Difference Between Tax Planning And Tax Avoidance Recent years have seen HMRC stepping up its efforts to reduce what is termed the ‘tax gap’ (defined as being the amount of tax that HMRC think should, in theory, be paid in comparison with the amount actually paid) which from statistics published in February for the 2019/20 […]

  Normal Gifts Out Of Income The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word ‘normal’ to mean ‘conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected’. A minor, often misunderstood inheritance tax (IHT) gift exemption uses this definition of ‘normal’ whereby payments made (however large) are deemed to be inheritance tax-exempt transfers. To succeed, it needs to

Identifying A UK Property Rental Business Where a landlord runs an unincorporated property business, the profits from that business are charged to income tax. Where the business is carried on through a company, the charge is to corporation tax. There are four different types of property business: a UK property rental business; a UK furnished