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Retiring early is the dream for all of us, it is a chance to do more of what you enjoy, yet unsurprisingly the majority of us have never tried to calculate how much money we will need to save to live comfortably in retirement.  Your likely income needs will depend upon whether in retirement you…

  So you have been successfully running your business for a number of years and now HMRC have introduced a making tax digital initiative which is going to change how you do things for the future.   You are now expected to start keeping digital records of your accounts, so what is the next step…

Green Finance: Santander now lending on energy efficient CapEx. Santander, through their partners Macquarie Equipment Finance, have recently announced that they will lend on the following energy efficient asset purchases: Batteries/storage Biomass Boilers Boilers (condensing/gas) Building Management Systems CHP systems Energy Efficient Lighting (LED) Gas turbines Heating/ventilation air conditioning systems Metering Power factor correction Roof ventilation Solar…

Health Professionals Targeted in New HMRC Campaign. People in the health and wellbeing professions who have taxable income that they have not told HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) about are being targeted in a new campaign. The Health and Wellbeing Tax Plan offers health professionals a time-limited opportunity to bring their tax affairs up to…

Chancellor delays Christmas. Don’t go splashing out on new medical/dental toys before Christmas; wait until the January “tax sale”! The Annual Investment Allowance is to increase from 1st January 2013 to £250,000 for a two year period. Therefore careful planning pre and post 31st December 2012 could accelerate a claim for allowances and reduce the…

Certain payments made by businesses on behalf of employees are tax free, so are useful for profit extraction and within flexible remuneration structures: Employer pension scheme contributions (up to £60,000 per employee per annum, plus potential ‘catch-up’ from previous 3 years. This assumes your personal income is not above £260,000 and you are not already…