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Weekly tax update - Latest issue

The Tax update provides a round-up and explanation of the latest tax issues.

If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch with your usual Smith & Williamson contact or Richard Mannion at the email address given below.

Email Richard Mannion (Director of National Tax)
T: 020 7131 4252

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Briefing note: Property Investors – Have you claimed all your capital allowances?

The note highlights expected future deadlines for making capital allowance s198 elections in respect of fixtures.

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Personal tax checklist 2011/2012

In advance of the end of the tax year on 5 April 2012, there are a number of planning points that you may wish to consider.

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Specialist tax advice to classical musicians

Classical musicians face many challenges and uncertainties in a fast-changing world, from public funding cut-backs to constant technological advances in public access
to recordings.

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Briefing note - Starting in self-employed business

Checklist of tax consequences for an individual starting in business.

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Tax factsheet: Business Record Checks

HMRC is introducing a programme of business record checks to review the adequacy and accuracy of SME records.

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Tax factsheet: Pensions: reduction to the lifetime allowance

The lifetime allowance upper limit on the amount of pension and for lump sum from pension schemes that benefit from tax relief is being reduced from 6 April 2012, subject to a ‘fixed protection’ election

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Tax factsheet: New partner/member - introductory guide

Outline of the practical issues to consider when joining a partnership or LLP.

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IHT: Excepted estates and the changes from 1 March 2011

Certain estates do not require a full IHT account to be made to HMRC. Those ‘excepted estates’ are generally those with as IHT liability but there are exclusions to this note and these exclusions changed from 1 March 2011.

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Briefing note - Disclosure, Information Notices and Discovery

Considers the rules for discovery assessments and the level of disclosure required to prevent discovery.

 

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Budget 2010 (Ireland) - 10 December 2009

"We've had to make some very tough choices" - one of the statements from the speech by Ireland's Minister of Finance, Mr Brian Lenihan TD, in his Budget 2010 speech to Dail Eireann on 9 December 2009.

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