Total value of UK exports reach “record high” despite global headwinds

Month: July 2019

Incorporation no longer automatically resets the two year requirement for sole traders

Entrepreneurs’ Relief (ER) entitles a business owner to significant relief from Capital Gains Tax (CGT) on the disposal of their business, often halving the consequent tax bill. To qualify for ER, the company must normally have been the business owner’s personal company for the whole of the last two years and they must have been …

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More than 150 chief financial officers and senior finance executives personally fined by HMRC last year

Research by law firm, Pinsent Masons, has found that more than 150 chief financial officers and other senior finance executives have been fined personally by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) in relation to tax accounting issues during the last financial year. This is an increase of 22 per cent on the previous year when 125 …

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