Students starting university this year are being warned by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) that they could be targeted by a fresh wave of tax scams. As new students start the academic year, they can be particularly vulnerable to cybercrime. With universities taking a blended approach to online and face-to-face tuition this year, and an […]
HMRC has published some interesting research into capital gains tax (CGT). Here are three CGT questions for you to ponder: 1. How many individuals made enough capital gains in 2018/19 to face a CGT bill? The answer is just 256,000, according to the latest provisional figures from HMRC – 9,000 fewer than in the previous […]
The main US stock market index hit several new all-time highs in August. So far, the US has had a difficult 2020: Its performance in the battle against Covid-19 has been widely criticised. In the first part of August the country was still experiencing around 50,000 new cases each day. In the second quarter of […]
The Supreme Court has handed down a long-awaited decision on a complex case. Mrs Staveley died in December 2006, but it was only in August 2020 that the Supreme Court settled the question of the extent of any inheritance tax (IHT) liability on her pension. In the intervening 13 years, the rules relating to […]
Dividends paid by overseas companies fell less sharply than their UK counterparts in the second quarter of the year. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on corporate dividends has been dramatic in the UK. Total dividend payments from quoted companies fell by over half in the second quarter, according to research published in July by […]
‘Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.’ John D. Rockefeller To this day we can still relate to the words of American industrialist John D. Rockefeller, despite their utterance over a century ago. Be it a privately owned business or publicly listed stock, dividends come […]
