Archive: Tax Planning

Tax breaks for ex-pats working in the UK

Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

TAP INTO TAX Iss. 2 The purpose of this series of blogs is to highlight innovative tax planning ideas, which you can ‘TAP’ into; we hope you find them useful. If you are resident and domiciled in the UK for tax purposes you are subject to tax on your worldwide earnings as they arise. If

University Fees Planning

Monday, May 23rd, 2011

TAP INTO TAX Iss. 1 The purpose of this series of blogs is to highlight innovative tax planning ideas, which you can ‘TAP’ into; we hope you find them useful. It has been widely reported in the press that UK Universities will now charge tuition fees of up to £9,000 per annum from the 2011/12

GAAR: A Step Too FAAR?

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

One of first taxation related announcements of the new Conservative/Liberal coalition government was that they would start an informal consultation on the introduction of a General Anti-Avoidance Rule (GAAR). In fact it has started to become a recurring theme for a new UK government to look at whether a GAAR is the way forward, as

To Avoid Tax, Or Not To Avoid Tax, That Is The Question

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

“Spotlights” is HM Revenue & Customs’ initiative to warn the public about what they perceive the be questionable tax planning arrangements that are available as tools to avoidance UK taxes. Spotlights is published periodically by HMRC to assist the public in understanding and identifying the types of tax planning arrangements which HMRC are likely to