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Bucks County Show 2024
Ellacotts will be at Bucks County Show on Thursday 29 August 2024
Year-end tax planning 2024
In this Webinar the Ellacotts team discuss: Dividend allowance, Personal savings allowance, ISA allowance, Personal allowance, Pensions allowance, Inheritance allowance, Capital Gains Tax allowance and EIS/VCT.
Please contact us. if you have any questions or would like to discuss the webinar in more detail.
Pre year end tax planning 2024
The UK tax year ends on 5 April 2024, so March can provide a good opportunity to consider your finances and potentially save tax with careful end-of-year tax planning. In this free 30-minute webinar, our tax and financial planning experts explain ways to minimise your...
Important upcoming tax deadlines calendar
Find out all of the important dates that you need to be aware of for your tax deadlines.
Autumn Statement 2023 Webinar
In this Webinar the Ellacotts team discuss: Business Taxes, Full expensing, Merger of R&D Schemes, National Insurance, Personal Tax, Pensions, Retirement Planning and ISA’s.
If you have any questions or would like to discuss the webinar in more detail, please contact us.
New Employee checks
HMRC is publicising a new way that employers can be provided with an employee’s National Insurance number
(NINO).
Child Benefit – watch the sting in the tail
If you or your partner get Child Benefit, keep the High Income Child Benefit charge (HICBC) in mind.
HMRC detective work means tax bill for eBay trader
Online sales: one of those areas where awareness of tax is often low.
Do you need to file a Self Assessment tax return?
You have until 31 January 2024 to file your Self Assessment tax return online. This might seem like an age away, but the deadline always comes around much quicker than you would expect.
Employee Ownership Trust
An Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) is a type of employee trust used to encourage shareholders to set up structures such as the John Lewis model which facilitates employee ownership.
What is Business Protection Assurance and do you need it?
Business Protection Assurance helps protect a business against possible financial losses when terminal or critical illness or death affects the owners or their employees.
Using pensions as an Inheritance Tax planning vehicle
Contributions to registered pension schemes for others offer significant potential benefits for IHT planning.
Tax-efficient children’s savings
Rather than buying yet more toys for your children or grandchildren, why not consider setting up a tax-efficient Junior ISA for them?
Tax consequences of withdrawing money early from your pension
Withdrawing money from your pension pot may seem like a quick cash-flow solution, however, there are complex tax rules to consider.
Maximising your pension contributions
Even now, given the current market volatility, pensions remain one of the most tax-efficient investments you can make.
Legitimate ways for high earners to reduce their tax bill
If you are a higher-rate taxpayer and have not carefully developed a tax planning strategy, then you run the risk of missing out on key tax allowances and paying more in taxes than you need.
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We are proud to be recognised as a Top 100 Accountancy firm in the Accountancy Age 2023 survey. We are longstanding and active UK200Group members, and affiliate members of AGN, an international association of accountants. We have One Star Best Companies status, reflecting our commitment to being a great workplace. As a Xero Platinum Partner, we are dedicated to supporting our clients in online accounting.
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