What your accountant should be doing for you
If the only time you hear from your accountant is when something is due, you are paying for filing and calling it advice.
Moving to Dubai: the UK tax that follows you
The zero percent is real. So is the ten year tail, the day count, and the corporate tax the UAE introduced in 2023.
Making Tax Digital and your limited company: what actually applies
Most of the panic about Making Tax Digital is aimed at the wrong people. Here is what applies to a limited company director, and what does not.
Does the UK have a wealth tax?
There is no single wealth tax in the UK. There are several taxes on wealth, most of them already in your bank statements.
Your director’s loan is now taxed at 35.75%
The rate went up in April, the gov.uk page still showed the old one for months, and the charge lands nine months and a day after your year end.
How to pay yourself from a limited company in 2026/27
Salary, dividend, loan or expenses. Four doors, four sets of rules, and one of them gets picked for you if you do not pick it first.
Leaving the UK to cut your tax: the 10-year rule nobody plans for
Leaving the UK does not switch off UK inheritance tax straight away. Here is the long-term resident rule, the 3-to-10-year estate tail, and the two clocks you have to run.
Pensions and inheritance tax: the 2027 change, and the legal ways to plan for it
From 6 April 2027 most unused pensions count towards inheritance tax. Here is what changes, the up-to-64% worked example, and six legal ways UK directors can plan ahead.
How did Philip Green’s family receive a £1.2bn dividend with no UK income tax?
The 2005 Arcadia dividend went to Tina Green, a genuine Monaco resident. Non-residents' UK dividends are disregarded for UK income tax; Monaco charges none.
What actually makes money on Clarkson’s farm?
Not the crops. Diddly Squat made £144 farming in year one. The shop, the pub and the show are the business, and the land is the appreciating asset.
Why did Gary Lineker win his £4.9 million IR35 case against HMRC?
Lineker contracted directly with the BBC and BT Sport through a partnership, so IR35 could not apply as a matter of law. The real dispute was about £300k.
Why did James Dyson buy 35,000 acres of farmland, and what changed in April 2026?
Dyson's farmland enjoyed uncapped 100% IHT relief. Since 6 April 2026 that relief is capped at £2.5m per person, and the same cap hits company owners.