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Although there have not been many significant changes to tax legislation recently, there are still some important new previously announced policies taking…

Big changes are afoot concerning the way that VAT is calculated and paid within the construction industry, which come into effect on…

It seems that all recent HMRC initiatives have been designed to encourage taxpayers to disclose previously undeclared income, thereby increasing HMRC revenues…

Investing in a business can be one of the most tax efficient ways to grow your capital. This activity can take many…

Disguised Remuneration (DR) arrangements which have attracted the interest of HMRC have involved the payment of loans to individuals (e.g. an employee…

Running your own limited company comes with a number of freedoms. One of the most tempting is the opportunity to access company…

Over the course of 2017, our blogs giving few tax advice have helped thousands of people. Looking through the analytics for the…

For entrepreneurs looking to grow their business to the next level, there’s usually only one way to achieve this goal – by…

HMRC is currently running a card transaction amnesty programme for retailers and e-commerce merchants that accept card payments. This gives any business…

Growth by acquisition remains a very popular strategy for business owners and it inevitably attracts expenses in the form of legal and…

This month we have been looking out for interesting new books that are relevant to Livewire subscribers. There were two that caught…

Just this month, we’ve published two separate articles about recent government U-turns regarding important tax policy. Firstly there was the proposed NIC…

POLICY ON HOLD UNTIL AFTER GENERAL ELECTION One of the less widely publicised changes announced in the Budget 2017, but which has…

  Claim higher rate tax relief on pension contributions A standard pension annual allowance of £40,000 per person per year was introduced…

There are still a few weeks left of the 2016/17 tax year, which means there is still time to mitigate the amount…