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Budget 2012 - tax relief

Mar 22 2012

The government has set a new cap on income tax relief.

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Budget 2012 - offshore loophole closed

Mar 22 2012

The government has closed a loophole around the payment of stamp duty land tax.

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Budget 2012 - Stamp Duty land tax rate

Mar 22 2012

The government has introduced a lighter version of the proposed 'mansion tax' that will introduce a higher rate of stamp duty on properties over £2 million.

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Budget 2012 Updates

Mar 21 2012

Taxguide.co.uk takes a look at a number of changes

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CD trading VAT loophole to close

Mar 20 2012

A VAT loophole that allowed Guernsey and Jersey-based traders to avoid VAT is to be closed by the government.

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Update to rule on smartphones

Feb 22 2012

HMRC has made a change that has seen smartphones such as the Blackberry reclassified as mobile phones.

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Update on rental income

Feb 14 2012

Nicola Plant of Pemberton Greenish provides an update on changes to the way that rental income is taxed.

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Change to tax during liquidation process

Feb 10 2012

Menzies has reported on changes to the cost of dissolving small companies that it argues will increase the costs for business owners.

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Liquidation

Tax Credits and Working Age Benefits

Dec 1 2011

The Autumn Budget Statement confirmed that the child and disability elements of tax credits will rise, from April 2012, by the level of Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation in the year to the end

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State Pensions

Dec 1 2011

In April 2012 the Basic State Pension will be increased in line with CPI inflation in the year up to the end of September 2011 (5.2 per cent).

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Basic State Pension

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