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: Last Updated: 28 March 2014

With the new tax year only days away the race is on to meet clients and discuss tax mitigation strategies. This time: Part 1 of a new guide: Is it worth restructuring to save tax? A new checklist for shareholders: Company year-end planning An update: Companies: Compliance review returns & payments Lots more updates (see below). Subscribe before 31 March to freeze your subscription for a second year. Kind regards Nichola Nichola Ross Martin FCA Tax Director www.rossmartin.co.uk Your online Virtual Tax Partner: practical support for accountants, tax advisers and their clients
Updates, new tax guides and checklists For PAID subscribers only (because you're worth it :) Is it worth restructuring to save tax? This is the first part of a new case study exploring some practical tax mitigation options that are open to the owner-directors of a service company. New and updated Practical Tax Toolkits for companies: Tax-efficient extraction of profits An interactive checklist for shareholder and directors with links to detailed guidance notes, tips and tools and examples. Company year-end planning This checklist covers the main issues that you need to explore with the company and its owners ahead of the year-end. Compliance review returns & payments A handy memory jogger. Furnished holiday letting Updated: VAT treatment...More Capital allowances ALL CHANGE (since last week): want to know all about integral features? Over 200 people have clicked on a new guide on the topic...since Monday! We have moved all guides and checklists to their own Capital allowances section. New guides cover plant, fixtures and integral features. In the news HMRC rethinking Agent fraud legislation Back to the drawing board for a better definition of "tax agent" and "fraud". Measures will not be included in the 2010 Finance Bill. Footballers' companies under investigation Shifting income using companies or IR35? HMRC is taking a keen interest in the tax planning schemes of some of some UK based footballers and sports stars. Gov't publishes new tax framework for business Proposals for large business in order to provide greater certainty about the development of tax policy. What about a similar policy for SMEs? Residency tests: what now? Robert Gaines-Cooper lost his final appeal in his residency court battle. The case illustrates the difficultly in advising clients in this area. We have created as quick guide on this topic. Recent new guides & updates NEW Tax penalties: grounds for appeal A handy little resource for you to bookmark. UPDATE: Unlawful, illegal and ultra vires dividends NEW: a worked CASE STUDY illustrates the different treatment for different types of connected persons. NEW Do ALL directors need to complete a P11D? A concise explanation of the rules. UPDATE PAYE dispensations Updated as a result of new guidance, links to employer guides to benefits and expenses and tax penalties...More
KEY Reading this month: Employers' Quarterly Tax Briefing Top tips, tools, links and planning ideas for 2010/11 and beyond...More Quarterly Tax Refresher (for advisers only) This essential tax tool is an excellent source of online CPD. Download this onto your mobile, train staff, and of course brief your clients...More Employment: taxing leaving payments All the rules, in one place, at last. Unfair dismissal Employees have numerous grounds for claiming unfair dismissal. Don't get caught out in this minefield. FREE news, guides, notes and checklists You have to pay to subscribe to unlock the full content in www.rossmartin.co.uk. Here is some of our free material: Recommendations: what do our subscribers say about us? Free guides You have two options: 1. Explore the site (then click on the menus and you will soon see what is free) 2. See a small sample. PBR 2009: tax planner A handy tax planner for 2010/11 and 2011/12 Tax Data Bookmark this on your mobile Missed an edition? See Nichola's SME Tax News Archive. Subscribe to the Practical Tax Database to UNLOCK your internet Virtual Tax partner: Our special introductory rate ENDS on 31 March. We are offering a single user subscription from £255 + VAT per year (that is a mere £21.25 (+ VAT) per month). What do you get? Open access to the entire Practical Tax Database which contains over 220 tax and legal guides packed full of essential know-how for advisers. Our regular Email update when there are new guides and tax issues that we think you MUST read. Nichola’s monthly SME tax news summary (we do the reading and cherry pick the best of the press, magazines and websites for you). NEW our Quarterly Tax Refresher (for advisers ONLY) + our Quarterly Employer Briefing. A 25% discount to our NEW tax webinar-update service). You can also commission guides and checklists for your own practice, post comments and upload your own articles. You can access the Virtual Tax Partner service for FREE quick calls, or just a chat.