Tax News

If you own some properties in your own name and others within a Limited Company, please read this Case Study and share it with any other landlords who might be in a similar position. Mr X owns UK...

Tax Efficient Extraction of Profit From Companies For 2018/19 For many years accountants and tax advisers have suggested that director/shareholders should extract profit by paying themselves a low...

Our Hon. Legal Counsel, Mark Smith, Head of Chambers at Cotswold Barristers will be presenting an overview of several landlords tax strategies at the pin Belfast Meeting property networking event...

If you are due to pay tax on your finance costs by 31st January 2019 I have some very bad news for you, and some potentially very good news. I will begin with the bad news. Unless you make some...

Two scenarios regularly pitched to me during tax planning consultations are:- 1) We want to sell some of our properties which are low yielding and replace them with higher yielding properties. 2) We...

Our Hon. Legal Counsel, Mark Smith, Head of Chambers at Cotswold Barristers will be presenting an overview of several landlords tax strategies at the LANI General meeting Wednesday 16 January 2019.

Freezer shares provide an opportunity for owners of property companies to cap the value of the shares for IHT planning purposes by transferring future growth in value of the company outside their...

Our Hon. Legal Counsel, Mark Smith, Head of Chambers at Cotswold Barristers will be presenting an overview of several landlords tax strategies at the J6 Property Professionals & Investors meet on...

Did you know that UK landlords do not have to pay tax on their UK dividend income from incorporated rental property businesses if they live in Portugal? Have you ever heard of the Portugal...

A common question I am asked by landlords who are considering incorporation of their property rental business is “what does washing out Capital Gains Tax (CGT) on incorporation actually...