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Principal private residence relief is the reason selling your home does not trigger capital gains tax: a dwelling occupied as your only or main residence throughout ownership is fully relieved…
Read articleA community interest company (CIC) is a limited company built for social purpose: it trades like any business, but a statutory asset lock stops its assets and profits leaking to private owners…
Read articleIR35 decides whether a contractor working through their own limited company is, in substance, an employee of the client — and therefore whether the engagement gets taxed like employment. Who makes…
Read articleMost fraud investigations start the same way: an anomaly that will not reconcile, a tip-off nobody wanted to hear, a supplier that turns out to share a director's home address. What happens in the…
Read articleIf you have lost money to crypto fraud, the most important thing we can tell you comes first: the "recovery expert" who just contacted you promising to get it back is almost certainly the second…
Read articleA COP9 letter is the most serious civil communication HMRC sends: it means the Fraud Investigation Service suspects you of tax fraud, and it offers you a one-time deal — the Contractual Disclosure…
Read articleLTIP stands for long-term incentive plan — the umbrella term for share awards that vest over several years if the recipient stays and performance targets are met. Unlike EMI or CSOP, an LTIP is…
Read articleGrowth shares are a separate class of shares that participate only in value above a hurdle — set at or above what the company is worth today. Because the existing value is walled off, the new…
Read articleLending money to family is one of the most common financial transactions in Britain — the Bank of Mum and Dad advanced £9.6 billion in gifts and loans in a single recent year, helping over half of…
Read articleAn earn-out is the part of a business sale price that depends on how the business performs after completion: the buyer pays, say, £6 million now and up to £4 million more over the next two or…
Read articleEnterprise value is what a business's operations are worth to all its capital providers; equity value is what is left for shareholders after debt-holders take their slice. The bridge between them…
Read articleUK charitable giving is one of the few areas of tax where the reliefs are genuinely generous and genuinely underclaimed: Gift Aid adds 25p to every pound you give, higher-rate taxpayers can claim…
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