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Tax

If tax credits are your salvation, what about the families they've damned?

Published: 01 April 2007

The 10p tax is going, so can a derided system take the strain for low earners?

Brown exits amid smoke and mirrors

Published: 25 March 2007

The Chancellor may have made 2 per cent vanish from the basic rate of tax but his generosity was something of an illusion

Sam Dunn: A fog of confusion obscured the Chancellor's red box

Published: 25 March 2007

Accountants were left to unravel the real facts of the Budget

Money News: Wealthy homes targeted in official report on council tax

Published: 25 March 2007

Homeowners in the biggest properties should subsidise council tax bills for those in small homes, an inquiry commissioned by the Government has recommended.

Family finances: Take action now, or you could lose out

Published: 24 March 2007

A review of your family's finances may be needed. David Prosser offers a checklist

How to leave your assets to your heirs, not the taxman

Published: 24 March 2007

More families are being caught out by inheritance tax. David Prosser has tips on avoiding it

Property Taxation: Commercial property industry condemns 'stealth taxes'

Published: 22 March 2007

The commercial property industry yesterday rounded on Gordon Brown's new "stealth taxes" on the sector. Although Mr Brown did not put up stamp duty, as some had feared, the withdrawal of property tax benefits announced yesterday would raise more than £1.3bn annually for the Treasury by the 2009/10 year.

Sam Dunn: He shoots! He scores! My fantasy line-up for Gordon's last Budget

Published: 18 March 2007

For all its faults, inheritance tax is a useful social tool

Ask Sindie: A family under one roof, but is there a tax shelter?

Published: 18 March 2007

A reader asks about the implications of a complicated property purchase

Outraged by your bill? Think before you jump on the council tax bandwagon

Published: 04 February 2007

A TV show alleged recently that many households overpay. But mounting a challenge is a perilous option

Private Investor: I tried to file my tax return - honest I did

Published: 03 February 2007

Not a great week. This year, for the first time in the past, say, five, I failed to file my tax return on time. By "on time" I mean the deadline that expired last Wednesday evening.

Get your skates on: it's 10 days to the tax meltdown

Published: 21 January 2007

A specialist offers guidance to those yet to file their self-assessment returns

Tax Evasion: 'Sledgehammer' cracks income tax scam

Published: 07 December 2006

Gordon Brown was accused yesterday of "overkill" in the way the Treasury has framed new measures to stop employees dodging tax.

One day, son, all this could be the taxman's

Published: 01 October 2006

It's the new national obsession: what can we do to avoid being clobbered by inheritance tax?

Private Investor: There'll be tax return tears before bedtime

Published: 30 September 2006

It's that time of year again. Today is the deadline for filling in your tax return if you want HM Revenue & Customs to calculate your tax liability for you. It's a time that I dread.

Some would like to murder it, but we can live with inheritance tax

Published: 10 September 2006

Got an estate worth over £285,000? With good planning you can protect a legacy

Treasury pockets record amount of inheritance tax

Published: 26 August 2006

The house price boom means more families are facing bills, reports David Prosser

World Cup partygoers could face painful tax penalties

Published: 17 June 2006

Thousands of workers enjoying generous World Cup hospitality from employers desperate to keep them at work could face a nasty tax headache according to a leading accountant. Blick Rothenberg, the London-based tax specialist, is warning that employees could have to pay tax on the value of food and drink provided by their bosses at World Cup parties.

Out of the financial comfort zone

Published: 04 June 2006

In the first of a new series on the self-employed, we look at the initial challenges of going it alone

Money News: Call for 'impact tax' to stop local people losing out

Published: 21 May 2006

A new "impact tax" levied on second homes in Britain's rural hotspots would help ease the housing crisis for local residents, a government-commissioned report has proposed.

Last chance for savers to avoid offshore tax penalties

Published: 06 May 2006

Thousands of savers with offshore bank accounts are under extra pressure to declare the interest they earn to HM Revenue & Customs, after a court ruling this week against Barclays Bank.

Brown refuses to back down on tax timebomb for families

Published: 22 April 2006

David Prosser looks at claims that Gordon Brown's attempt to beat tax-dodgers has badly missed its mark

Fears raised of a bonfire of the family trust funds

Published: 09 April 2006

Amid dire warnings, will millions of us really be caught by a clampdown on tax shelters?

Prudently populist: the treats and the takeaways delivered by Gordon Brown

Published: 26 March 2006

There were no radical reforms from the prime-minister-in-waiting. But from newborns to grandparents, what he had to say affects all of us

Sam Dunn: Inheritance tax has the common touch and that's no virtue

Published: 26 March 2006

It isn't just the well-heeled who get whacked by IHT
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