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Broking Breakfast: Sharing the shortcomings in Wind-Down Planning and delving into CASS 5 hot topics
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Watch our on-demand webinar to discover about the shortcomings in wind down planning, and delve into CASS 5 hot topics.
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UK VAT: how to keep your natural resources company ahead of HMRC
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It’s easier than you think to fall foul of the complicated VAT rules for natural resources holding companies. We help you steer through the obstacles.
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Extracting the profits of extraction: withholding taxes on oil, gas or mining extraction funds
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We explore the regulations and offer guidance on how natural resources companies can minimise the effect of withholding taxes on their extraction funds.
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Transfer pricing in the natural resources sector
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The industry is beset with its own complexities. We offer advice to multinationals on how to navigate transfer pricing at a time of increased scrutiny.
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From the boardroom to the greenhouse
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Sarah Morrison was a Partner in our Not for Profit team. In this interview, Sarah explains how she was able to combine her passion for the charity sector with the intellectual challenge of working in a leading accountancy practice.
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CapitalQuarter – Spring 2024
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Welcome to our Spring 2024 edition of Capital Quarter – the newsletter for listed businesses and their advisors.
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Salary sacrifice: what benefits offer the best savings and what are the common pitfalls?
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Not all benefits can be provided using salary sacrifice and some deliver more savings than others, for both employers and employees. We explain how to get the best from the arrangement.
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Newsbite: National Insurance Contributions
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HMRC have now further extended the deadline for making voluntary National Insurance Contributions for the years April 2006 onwards.
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Rewarding your employees through a company share scheme
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Have you considered implementing a company share scheme as a way of rewarding your employees?
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Beware of social security rules for teleworkers in European countries
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Employers that have employees working from Europe need to be aware that the UK has opted not to sign up to the new EU Framework Agreement on social security for teleworkers. We explain.
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What’s the best way to incentivise your workforce with equity?
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A large number of businesses use equity as a way of incentivising and rewarding their employees. In this article we look at different mechanisms for equity incentivisation and some common pitfalls.
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Do you see eye tests as an employee benefit?
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A company eye test is increasingly being seen as part of an employee’s compensation. We take a look at how it can fit into a company’s benefits package, and when it becomes taxable.
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Options in effectively obtaining a share of your company’s growth
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Phil Clayton sets out the pros and cons of the different share option schemes and highlights some potential tax pitfalls.
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Share schemes to become less bureaucratic
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Following the 2023 Spring Budget, HMRC’s tax advantaged share schemes have had a quiet makeover, Tafara Golding explains some of the key changes.
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R&D Tax Relief on blockchain technology
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Blockchain Technology is an area in which there is constant innovation and improvement in the baseline technology, and is therefore an area where the availability of R&D tax relief should be strongly considered.
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PESMs: are you applying yours correctly?
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Insurers should consider how their investments impact their VAT partial exemption calculations before HMRC beats them to it.