If you are a Santander shareholder, you should have received correspondence from Santander regarding the final dividend for the 2019 financial year. What this means The May 2020 dividend (subject to shareholder approval) will be partly paid as a normal cash dividend...
With the top rate of income tax at 45% and employees national insurance of 2%, wealthy individuals can lose almost half of their pay if they are domiciled and tax resident in the UK. We have for many years wanted to attract wealthy foreigners to settle in the UK and...
There is a lot of guesswork surrounding how the new digital reporting regime will work in respect of the capital gains relating to the sale of residential properties by UK residents. Having listened to the HMRC webinar recently on this very subject, I am now much...
In the tax world, proposals often get made and legislation gets introduced and then gets deferred. This was true with Making Tax Digital and many other high profile changes to the tax profile system including the Class 2 abolition. However one piece of legislation...
Inheritance tax usually kicks in when the value of an estate exceeds the tax-free threshold of £325,000 and each year, an increasing amount of estates are having inheritance tax deducted before what’s left is distributed to any beneficiaries or causes. Total...
As part of my service to clients, I try and check out, periodically, that the client has strategies for: Retirement income Critical illness cover Life cover Income replacement It is nice to have all bases covered but sometimes one has to prioritise, especially where...
