Kaplan Success Story – Chengai Ruredzo !

Kaplan Success Story – Chengai Ruredzo !

Are you feeling discouraged with your lack of progress in life? Do you feel that the obstacles you face are too much to bear? Many of us feel this way. Why not listen to Chengai’s story? She is one of our Kaplan success stories and an amazing person. Listen to her...
Neil’s Tax Tips : IHT Death Estate

Neil’s Tax Tips : IHT Death Estate

One aspect I felt many tax students neglect is the IHT death estate. You need to put all assets into the death estate including exempt assets for CGT. Deduct any agricultural property relief on farms (100%) and business property relief (100%) on unquoted shares....
Tax Tips -Residency Rules For Individuals

Tax Tips -Residency Rules For Individuals

One area I expect will feature in September’s Advanced Tax and Tax exams is overseas aspects for individuals. You need to learn the automatic residency statutory tests Automatically non-resident if in the UK for less than 16 days (leavers), less than 46 days...
Portugal To Start Taxing Crypto Gains

Portugal To Start Taxing Crypto Gains

The pandemic provided the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to evaluate their working lives and the time to dabble in cryptocurrency. In the UK, crypto is a chargeable asset and the gains are taxed as your top slice of income. However, the first £12,300 of...
Rishi Or Liz For Low Tax ?

Rishi Or Liz For Low Tax ?

Will the REAL Slim-Tax Shady please stand up? As Conservatives prepare to vote in our next Prime Minister, the key issue is tax cuts. Rishi has increased the tax burden for families to the highest level it has been in 70 years. This alongside with record inflation has...
HMRC Clamp Down On R&D SME Claims

HMRC Clamp Down On R&D SME Claims

In order to encourage innovation in the UK, HMRC offers SMEs an extra 130% deduction on R&D revenue expenditure including staff costs, materials, software, utilities, and 65% of subcontractor costs.SMEs have less than 500 employees and a turnover of fewer than 10...