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Sharing salary with your partner
Personal TaxYou’re a director with a substantial salary and your partner isn’t working right now. If you could split your salary with your partner the tax saving would make a real difference. How can you legitimately share your salary to improve the overall tax position?
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Are you including too much income in your calculations?
VATYour business is partly exempt and you claim input tax on your mixed costs and general overheads by using the standard method based on turnover splits. What income should you exclude from the calculations?
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Directors’ fees - can you escape PAYE?
Personal TaxYou’ve been asked to join the board of a company in a purely advisory role. For tax and NI efficiency you want your fees to be paid to your own company. Does this arrangement fall foul of HMRC’s off-payroll rules?
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Is it really the end of tax relief for homeworking?
Business TaxIn her 2025 Budget the Chancellor announced the end of tax deductions for “non-reimbursed homeworking expenses”. How might the loss of the deduction affect you and is there an alternative tax relief you can take advantage of?
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Get ready for Making Tax Digital for Income Tax
Business TaxIf you’re one of the (un)lucky individuals who need to join Making Tax Digital for Income Tax (MTD IT) from 6 April 2026, you probably know that this involves submitting regular, digital records to HMRC. But what do you need to do to prepare?
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Homeworking: claiming input tax on subsistence expenses?
VATSome of your staff work remotely, but their homes aren’t suited to it. You have agreed to pay for rented office space, or for refreshments if they work from, say, a café. Can you claim input tax on these expenses?