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Disadvantages of Family Investment Companies (FICs)

Sep 4, 2025
| Uncategorized

Family Investment Companies (FICs) have grown in popularity as a way for high-net-worth families to manage and pass down wealth. They can provide flexibility, tax advantages, and long-term succession ...

Latest Inheritance Tax (IHT) Changes

Sep 4, 2025
| Uncategorized

Inheritance Tax (IHT) has long been one of the most debated areas of UK tax policy. While only a minority of estates currently pay it, frozen thresholds, rising property values, and major upcoming ref...

A Simple Guide to Property Rental Income Tax and Property Capital Gains Tax

Aug 18, 2025
| Tax Guides and Compliance

If you are a landlord with less than 3 properties, which you are letting out in the UK, then this guide will give you a thorough grasp of the basics of property tax and capital gains tax in the UK. If...

Principal Private Residence Relief

Jun 19, 2025
| Legal

For landlords and property owners, Principal Private Residence (PPR) Relief is one of the most valuable exemptions available under UK Capital Gains Tax (CGT) rules. It exempts gains made on the sale o...

VAT Treatment on Property Conversions

Jun 17, 2025
| Capital Gains Tax

Property conversions offer unique opportunities for preferential VAT treatment under specific conditions. While construction work is typically standard-rated for VAT purposes, certain types of propert...

Phase 2 of Making Tax Digital

Jun 12, 2025
| Legal

What Is Phase 2 of Making Tax Digital? Making Tax Digital (MTD) is a UK government initiative designed to modernise the tax system through the use of digital tools and processes. The aim is to reduce ...

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Making Tax Digital: A Guide for Landlords to Prepare for the Future

May 23, 2025
| Making Tax Digital

As a landlord, keeping on top of tax changes can sometimes feel overwhelming. With Making Tax Digital for Income Tax (MTD IT) on the horizon, understanding what’s coming and preparing early will ensur...

Comparison of Discretionary Trusts and Family Investment Companies

May 13, 2025
| Family Investment Companies

Family Trusts have long been a cornerstone of estate planning, offering a reliable way to pass wealth to future generations while potentially reducing Inheritance Tax (IHT). However, in recent years, ...

Spotlight 69: HMRC’s Crackdown on LLP Property Schemes

May 8, 2025
| Legal

In recent developments, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has issued Spotlight 69, highlighting a tax avoidance scheme involving Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs) that landlords have used to bypass ...

Understanding Deferred Consideration for Capital Gains Tax (CGT)

Apr 22, 2025
| Capital Gains Tax

When selling a business or asset, it’s common for the sale price to include future payments—these are known as deferred consideration. From a Capital Gains Tax (CGT) perspective, how these payme...

Big Tax Changes Ahead for Furnished Holiday Lettings – What You Need to Know

Apr 22, 2025
| Airbnb Landlords

If you own a furnished holiday let, there are some important tax changes on the horizon that could significantly affect your future returns. Announced in the Spring Budget 2024, the government confirm...

Apr 21, 2025
| Let Property Campaign

How to Disclose Rental Income to HMRC Through the Let Property Campaign If you’ve earned rental income from a property and haven’t declared it to HMRC—whether it was an honest oversight or something y...

Apr 17, 2025
| Let Property Campaign

HMRC’s Let Property Campaign: What Every UK Landlord Needs to Know If you’ve earned rental income that hasn’t been declared to HMRC—whether through oversight, confusion, or circumstance you’re not alo...

Leased apartments Sub Let on Airbnb – VAT – TOMS or not?

Jan 24, 2025
| Airbnb Landlords

Background The First Tier Tribunal decision, released on 5 July 2023, that use of the Tour Operators’ Margin Scheme [TOMS] was applicable in the case of Sonder Europe Ltd ([2023] UKFTT 00610 (TC)) was...

2024 Autumn Budget Summary for Landlords

Oct 31, 2024
| News

On 30th October 2024, Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered the first budget under the new Labour Government, bringing in several new measures that will directly affect landlords. The biggest of these wa...

Budget Update for Landlords

Oct 31, 2024
| News

The Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered her first budget of the new Labour Government with a number of measures that directly affects landlords. Whilst we await the full Budget Report there were a numb...

PRR: What You Need To Know About Moving Frequently

Oct 21, 2024
| 2 or more Property Landlords

Situations arise where a taxpayer ends up moving from one property to another in a relatively short period of time. From HMRC’s point of view the issue is one of whether the move from one property to ...

VAT Treatment on Property Conversions Guide

Oct 18, 2024
| Single Property Landlords

Property conversions present unique opportunities for preferential VAT treatment under certain conditions. While construction work is typically standard-rated for VAT purposes, specific types of prope...

Why You Should Separate Trading & Investment Limited Companies

Oct 16, 2024
| Limited Companies

We receive many enquiries from directors of trading companies. Typically, IT consultants are looking to use their company funds to purchase investment properties in their trading company. However, in ...

Property118 Tax Avoidance Scheme Subject To HMRC Stop Notice

Aug 6, 2024
| News

Sadly, but nonetheless unsurprisingly, HMRC has issued a stop notice to Property 118 in connection with their use of a Capital Account Restructure. The full details can be found here. Dan Needle of Ta...

Sep 9, 2024
| Limited Companies

Here’s a comprehensive list of potential benefits directors can leverage to their advantage: 1. Trivial Benefits: Directors are entitled to claim trivial benefits up to £300 per director, per tax year...

Pre-Trading Expenditure On A Buy-To-Let Explained

Jul 31, 2024
| What expenses can I claim

Discover how to claim allowable expenses incurred before your first tenant moves in. Learn about deductible costs such as mortgage interest, repairs, insurance, and more. Ensure your claims are HMRC-r...

What You Need To Know About The Abolition of Furnished Holiday Lettings

Jul 30, 2024
| News

Chancellor Reeves to abolish furnished holiday lettings relief by April 2025. Find out more about how these changes could impact you and plan accordingly.

What You Need To Know About Family Investment Companies

Family Investment Companies – What You Need To Know

Jul 8, 2024
| Family Investment Companies

With the rise in landlords buying property through limited companies, now thought to be more than 50% of all new buy-to-let purchases, the use of a Family Investment Company (FIC) structure offers lan...

Meet Arnie: The AI Chatbot Revolutionizing Property Tax Assistance for Landlords

Jun 21, 2024
| Company News

Keeping up with tax obligations and financial regulations is no easy task in the fast-moving world of property management. This is why we have launched “Arnie”, an industry-leading AI chatbot to help ...

Furnished Holiday Lettings – What You Need To Know Next

Apr 24, 2024
| News

The 2024 Spring Budget included the announcement that furnished holiday let (FHL) status will be abolished from April 2025. So what are the implications for FHL business owners who decide to continue ...

Navigating the Continued 2.25% Director’s Loan Rate into 2024/25

Apr 17, 2024
| News

To the surprise of many HMRC has kept the official rate of interest (ORI) for beneficial loan arrangements like director’s loans at 2.25% for the second year running. In a recent press release, HMRC h...

Personal allowances for non-residents and dual residents

Apr 14, 2024
| Non-resident Landlords

If you are living abroad, or you are a foreign national, and you own property in the UK in your personal name, you are still entitled to the UK personal tax allowance depending on your nationality and...

What Is an Associated Company?

Mar 22, 2024
| Limited Companies

An associated company refers to a situation where two or more companies are connected in a way that allows one to influence or control the other. Here are the key points you need to know: Definition: ...

A Closer Look at the Recent Capital Gains Tax Cut

Mar 21, 2024
| Capital Gains Tax

Finally, the main event. The moment we had all been waiting for. The Chancellor announced a cut to Capital Gains Tax on the sale of residential property. Property gains, the one type of gain that attr...

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