Welcome to the world of Ross Martin Tax. We are the home of a unique set of practical tax resources for accountants and advisers, and their clients.
Our comprehensive guides cover multiple taxes, including Income Tax, Capital Gains Tax, Corporation Tax, Inheritance Tax, VAT, business taxes, land taxes, and many more.
Ross Martin Tax acts as your constantly evolving intranet of tax resources and information designed to complement your practice. We offer freeview and subscription guides, client briefings, and toolkits that combine to provide practical solutions to your tax questions.
For more in-depth planning, second opinions or technical support, you can also speak to one of our highly experienced tax professionals via our Virtual Tax Partner service.
Navigating our homepage
Top menu:
- SME Tax News contains our latest news items, including coverage of court cases, HMRC updates and Budget announcements.
- Quick tip: access to the latest SME news items is also available on the right-hand side of the homepage under 'What's new?'
- Tax Data covers rates, bands and allowances.
- Explore provides assistance for navigating the site.
- Tax Tools and Calcs are our practical tax tools and calculators.
You can log in to the site via the top menu. Here, you can also find a link to register or subscribe to the site.
Our weekly SME Tax Updates are linked in the centre of the homepage for ease of access. Any other highly important issues, such as Budget coverage, will also be published here.
Our main menu is located on the left-hand side of the homepage.
Navigating our main menu
The menu to your left takes you through the life of the business, as well as looking at specific key topics. Sections include:
- Starting in Business, through being a Sole Trader, a Partnership or Incorporating your business.
- Specific topics cover subjects such as Making Tax Digital, Directors, running a Company, Capital allowances, or being an Employer.
- Check out each section: look for the 'Start here' (freeview) guides: these are some of our most popular for new users.
- In the Essential know-how sections, there are in-depth guides on a variety of topics, checklists, and toolkits.
- Each section has vast coverage of relevant topics, which are regularly updated.
- Some popular guides for new users:
| In Business? | A Director? | A Company? |
Annuals:
- Our annuals appear within the main menu topics, and cover tax updates and 'what's new' for each tax year.
- Specific topics include tax planning for directors, remuneration planning, partnerships, companies, capital allowances, private clients and trusts & estates.
- These are excellent CPD for you and your team, and are designed to provide you with a range of planning ideas for when you meet up with clients.
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Annuals: take a look at some of our favourites for 2025-26:
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Case law:
- We have extensive coverage of case law within our guides in the main menu.
- Once a case round-up has been published, it is filed in the relevant guide along with other cases on the topic.
- You can find these either in the main text or on the 'cases' tab in the relevant guide, for example:
- Click on the 'disguised remuneration zone' on the main menu.
- Click the guide 'Disguised remuneration loan charge'.
- Click the 'cases' tab.
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Cases: take a look at some examples of our case libraries in these guides. EIS: Enterprise Investment Scheme (Subscriber guide) PPR: Private Residence Relief Discovery Assessments SDLT: Residential property higher rates Grounds for Appeal: Reasonable excuse |
Other popular sections in the main menu:
- Land & Property covers all the key areas in advising property owners, landlords, and developers and contains detailed guides to Stamp Duty Land Tax.
- Overseas & Residence covers non-residence issues for individuals and corporates, including the Statutory Residence Test, the abolition of the non-domicile regime and other matters specific to non-UK residents with UK property, assets and income.
- Devolved Taxes are also covered as they continue to evolve.
- Our Penalties, compliance and appeals zones cover everything compliance-related. Two of our most popular guides in this section:
- How to appeal an HMRC decision: an indispensable guide to pain-free tax appeals, formed from years of detailed analysis of tribunal and court decisions.
- How to appeal an HMRC penalty: a handy guide covering most types of penalty and the key steps in making a successful appeal.
- Investigations and enquiries highlights HMRC Spotlights and announcements, and also considers current disclosure opportunities.
- More Tax Guides: here you can find our amazing Rolling Tax Planners, which bring you an at-a-glance update to new measures and key announcements in Finance Acts. They also provide a really useful what's new in any of the key areas of tax.
Tips for navigating SME News Articles
To access our most up-to-date news items, you can either:
- Click on SME News in our top menu, or
- Use the What's New? menu on the right-hand side of the homepage.
We cover a wide range of news items, including Employer Bulletins, HMRC Agent Updates, consultations, and of course, our popular court case reviews.
Each article will include:
- Relevant links to guides or topics on our website. If you see a phrase underlined and hyperlinked within the article, this will open a new window to one of our guides.
- At the end of each article, you will find 'useful guides on this topic'; these have been handpicked to suit the topic covered in the article.
- 'External link' will take you to the external source of the article.
Tips for navigating our Newsletters
Weekly Newsletters are issued every Thursday and can be found on the homepage, or you can sign up for these by registering here.
Each Newsletter:
- Has an introduction outlining the tax highlights of the week.
- Links to this week's quick news articles and editor's choice articles.
- Links to various guides on our site.
- Links to this week's round-up of court cases.
We are continually evolving as a website, and nothing is more important to us than ensuring our users achieve the best from the site. Feedback from those who use the site is critical in allowing us to continue to progress. If you have any suggestions to help us improve, please do let us know.