Author: Tony Shackleford

Making Tax Digital

Written by Tony Shackleford on August 18, 2025.

Making Tax Digital for Income Tax (MTD) commences in April 2026. This impacts on indivduals who have property rental income (gross) and sales income from self-employment of £50,000 or more per tax...

MTD, MTD for Income Tax, Number caught by MTD

HMRC Target Companies For Corporation Tax Errors

Written by Tony Shackleford on August 13, 2025.

HMRC have announced that they are undertaking a campaign to target companies which have understated their corporation tax liabilities as a result of miscaclulating the number of associated...

Associated companies, Corporation tax, Corporation tax and associated companies

HMRC investigations Into Wealthy Individuals

Written by Tony Shackleford on August 4, 2025.

There has been a significant increase in the number of tax enquiries into wealthy individuals, partially as a result of HMRC investing £100m into this area. HMRC will obtain information from...

Divorce and tax, HMRC Enquiries, Wealthy individual Tax Enquiries

Making Tax Digital for Corporation Tax

Written by Tony Shackleford on July 22, 2025.

HMRC has today announced that Making Tax Digital for Corporation Tax will not now be going ahead.

Making Tax Digital for CT tax, MTD, MTD for corporation

Tax Avoidance Case HMRC Wins

Written by Tony Shackleford on July 7, 2025.

In a recent tax case a dentist has lost out to HMRC following a decision by the Cout of Appeal. The dentist traded through a Limited company and on the advice of a solicior, for which a 10%...

Loans by company, Tax avoidance

Companies House Accounts Filing Changes

Written by Tony Shackleford on June 30, 2025.

From 1 April 2027 all company accounts will need to be filed using software. The ability to submit accounts in paper form or using the Companies House site to siubmit the account digitally, will...

Accounts software, Companies House Accounts, Filing accounts, filing accounts to companies house

Inheritance Tax and HMRC

Written by Tony Shackleford on June 16, 2025.

The number of estates affected by Inheritance Tax (IHT) is being forecast to increase by 50% by 2030. The government is forecasting that taxation rasied by IHT will increase from £5.5 billion in...

IHT, IHT and HMRC, Inheritance Tax, Inheritance tax raised, Tax enquiries IHT

HMRC Chnages in Spending Review

Written by Tony Shackleford on June 13, 2025.

The Chancellor announced several changes to HMRC in her recent spending announcement . The 3 most significant changes were: Spending £1.7bn over a 4 year period to employ 7,900 additional HMRC...

HMRC compliance, HMRC debt collection, HMRC Digital, HMRC postage

Companies House ID Verification

Written by Tony Shackleford on June 11, 2025.

In Autumn 2025 Companies House are introducing a system whereby all directors are going to be required to be ID checked. Foe most directors this will entail them using the Companies House Onelogin...

ASCP, Companies House, ID check

Inheritance Tax £1m Business Property Relief Exempt Band

Written by Tony Shackleford on June 4, 2025.

Further details are gradually emerging of the changes concerning Business Property Relief within Inheritance Tax (IHT). The significant changes to BPR relief with in IHT, which are due to come into...

BPR, Business Property Relief, IHT

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