Tax

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Tax is hard to avoid and can take a big slice from your investment returns. Every investor should understand the basics to make sure they are not giving too much of their hard-earned cash to the government.

Recent articles (3)

Tax advice of the week: Claim pre-incorporation expenses

(06 November 09)

If you spend money setting up a business before you have formed a company, the person who runs up the expenses must be the one to claim the tax relief. That's a problem if your company wasn't formed when the expenses were incurred. So what's the solution?

Tax advice of the week: Get a business partner

(30 October 09)

If your business is run as a partnership between un-related individuals, you could double the amount of profits that attract corporation tax at just 21%.

Tax advice of the week: Claim back VAT on business costs

(23 October 09)

If you are VAT-registered, and making VAT-rated sales, then you can claim VAT back on most business-related expenses.