Posts Categorized: Friday Tax Tip’s

You can get a bike and cycling equipment worth up to £1,000. Here’s how . . . The HMRC “Cycle-to-Work” scheme allows you to enter into a hire agreement with your employer or your business in order to pay back the amount. This is typically done through monthly salary sacrifice over the period of 12… Read more »

  6 Things You Need To Know 1. Season ticket loan If you are a commuter, you can ask your employer if they can give you a tax-free loan to buy your season ticket. 2. Pool cars Use a pool car for occasional business travel if your employer provides these. 3. Childcare schemes and tax credits… Read more »

The approved HMRC mileage allowance payment is a maximum of 45p per mile. This means that you can pay your directors and employees the maximum amount for using their own vehicles for business journeys. You can also pay your employees more than the HMRC’s approved rates of 45p for the first 10,000 miles and 25p… Read more »

6 Things You Need To Know Transfer Assets – If your wife or husband is paying a lower rate of tax than you do, you can transfer your savings and investments to them in order to pay less income tax. Dividend Allowance – The first £5,000 you receive in dividends is tax-free. Basic-rate taxpayers will pay 7.5%… Read more »

7 Things You Need To Know   Rent-A-Room – Rent-a-Room Relief that lets you receive £7,500 in rent, each year tax-free. It applies if you rent out furnished accommodation in your own home. This includes landlords, bed & breakfasts, and guest houses. The income limit covers everything that you charge your tenants as part of the rental service including… Read more »

The Pension Tracing Service is a useful resource service for savers concerned about forgotten pensions. A million people have now used the free government service in order to track down their lost pension savings. The service has links to more than 320,000 pension-scheme administrators which you can use to search for your forgotten pension. You can search… Read more »

The average cost of staying in a care home is around £30,000 a year and many won’t be able to rely on the state to pick up the bill. Alongside with this, is the increase in ageing population and longer life expectancy. This means that you might end up facing some hefty bills in your… Read more »

The government’s Rent-a-Room scheme allows you to earn up to £7,500 per year tax free by letting out furnished accommodation in your home. You don’t have to do anything as you will be automatically exempted from tax on your rental income.   You can also opt in to the scheme at any time if: you… Read more »

Life Insurance offered by employers is considered an employee incentive as it provides peace of mind that their families will have some financial assistance if they were to die. However, one problem with Life Insurance is that it gives rise to a taxable benefit-in-kind.     The tax-efficient alternative for this problem would be to look at… Read more »

Your employer can pay for two trips per tax year for your spouse and children when you have to work abroad for a continuous period of at least 60 days without any charge to tax on the costs arising on you. If necessary, you should delay or bring forward a trip to be able to… Read more »