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The Corporate Interest Restriction: 30% of EBITDA, £2m Door

The corporate interest restriction caps how much interest expense UK companies can deduct against taxable profits: broadly, 30% of tax-EBITDA, for groups whose UK net interest costs exceed £2…

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Investors' Relief: 18% CGT for Outside Investors

Investors' relief is the capital gains tax break for outside investors in private trading companies — the angel's counterpart to Business Asset Disposal Relief. Subscribe cash for new ordinary…

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Year-End Tax Planning: The Checklist That Beats the Calendar

Year-end tax planning is mostly the discipline of using allowances that die at midnight on 5 April and positioning for changes you already know are coming. Almost nothing on the list below is…

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UK Pension Age: What Rises When, and Who Should Act

The UK pension age is moving right now: the state pension age is climbing from 66 to 67 between 2026 and 2028, the earliest age for touching a private pension rises from 55 to 57 in April 2028…

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Lease Accounting: FRS 102 Brings Leases On Balance Sheet

Lease accounting in the UK just crossed its watershed: for periods beginning on or after 1 January 2026, FRS 102 puts lessees' leases on the balance sheet — the office, the vehicle fleet, the…

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Corporation Tax Payments on Account: The QIPs Regime

Most companies pay corporation tax nine months and a day after their year end. Cross £1.5 million of profits and the rules invert: you become "large", and the tax is due in quarterly instalments…

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Section 166 Skilled Person Reviews: Surviving One Well

A section 166 review — the "skilled person report" — is the FCA or PRA requiring an independent expert to examine part of a regulated firm and report back, at the firm's expense. It sits in the…

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The Super Deduction Is Gone: Capital Allowances in 2026

The super deduction — the 130% first-year allowance that dominated capital spending decisions in 2021 and 2022 — is gone, but it refuses to be history: it ended in April 2023, left a disposal tail…

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The Employment Allowance: £10,500 Off Your Employer NIC

The Employment Allowance knocks up to £10,500 a year off an eligible employer's National Insurance bill — claimed with a single flag on a payroll submission, worth the equivalent of employing…

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Furnished Holiday Let Tax After the FHL Regime

The furnished holiday let tax regime is gone — abolished from April 2025 — and with it went every advantage that made holiday lets the favoured child of property taxation: full mortgage interest…

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LLP Meaning: How Limited Liability Partnerships Work

LLP stands for limited liability partnership — a hybrid built from the two halves its name promises: taxed like a partnership, protected like a company. Members share profits and pay income tax as…

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