Those (like me!) who appreciate the significance of the above headline will be thinking ‘Tax is Fun’ and ‘This is Fascinating’.  For the rest I challenge you to struggle on to the end. The case …

Accountants and clients used to the broad brush “commercial” approach to computing trading profits can get caught out by the different and stricter rules for calculating capital gains. Payments which may make sense, or even …

Private Residence Relief (PRR) is a very useful relief for taxpayers and prevents Capital Gains Tax from being paid on the sale of a primary residence in most cases.  There are aspects of the rules …

A recent First-Tier Tribunal raised an interesting point with regard to the rules on Termination Payments under ITEPA 2003, s.401.  These rules apply not only to compensation payments made on termination, but also a change …

A City trader recently won a case at the First-Tier Tribunal confirming that a payment of £600,000 from his former employers could be treated as tax free.  The catch comes in the fact that the …