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Main residence relief is a valuable relief which prevents a tax charge arising where a gain is realised on the disposal of a property which is your only or main residence. Where a property has been an only or main residence for some but not all of the period of ownership, the gain is sheltered […]

The tax legislation contains a number of exemptions which allow benefits in kind to be provided to employees without a tax charge arising. Some of the exemptions are more useful than others. One of the more valuable ones is that for mobile telephones. The exemption enables you to provide one mobile phone to an employee

As an employer, you can pay your employees tax-free mileage payments where they use either their own car or a company car for business journeys. However, the rates that you can pay tax-free depend on whether the car is the employee’s own or a company car and, where the employee drives a company car, the

If you are self-employed, the way in which your profits are taxed is changing. As a result of this, you only have a limited window in which to claim relief for any profits which have been taxed twice. Basis period reform For 2022/23 and earlier tax years, self-employed individuals, whether sole traders or partners in