Summertime and the livin’ is easy. Well, if you’re lucky it is. If not exactly easy, then perhaps easier. Maybe it’s the warmer, dryer weather and the longer days that allow us to get more done. Life can seem a lot more chilled and less
Read moreYou may not have paid any Capital Gains Tax so far. It’s not as common as Income Tax, National Insurance or VAT. And you may not be planning to pay Capital Gains Tax for some time yet, but one day that may change, so it
Read moreHaving just filed your 2023/24 Self Assessment tax return, hopefully ahead of the 31 January online filing deadline, you probably don’t want to have to think about your next tax return for a good while. That’s perfectly understandable. However, according to Mike at GoSimpleTax there
Read moreWell, after no less than four delays since it was first announced in 2015, it now looks like the first phase of the introduction of Making Tax Digital for Income Tax Self Assessment (MTD for ITSA) will finally go ahead at last. If you’re a
Read moreOK, so yet again you’ve left sorting out your Self Assessment tax return until far too late, despite promising yourself that you wouldn’t ever let it happen again. Tut, tut. The online filing deadline, which is midnight on 31 January, is now fast approaching and
Read moreSome 5.5m expat Brits are estimated to live outside of the UK, with 1.3m living in Australia alone. The other major English-speaking countries, New Zealand, the USA and Canada are also hugely popular with expat Brits, while a reported 400,000 expats live in Spain and
Read moreSo, you’ve finally decided to up sticks and go and live overseas. Maybe it’s the British weather, the cost of living or simply that you can no longer resist the appeal of living in another country (probably one with sunnier weather). Perhaps you’re already living
Read moreJust how quickly has this year flown by, eh? It’s something that you may well have heard, if you haven’t said it yourself. Maybe it’s something that you notice more the older that you get. The Olympics are a distant memory (great weren’t they?), the
Read moreThis week, Mike from GoSimpleTax gives Landlord’s the low down on tax planning for retirement. According to the Centre for Ageing Better, life expectancy has tripled over the course of human history. In 1840, when infant and child mortality rates were still very high, the
Read moreOK, admittedly, fun is a bit of a stretch. And probably the only sense of enjoyment you’ll get is when you’ve actually filed your Self Assessment tax return and it’s off your plate for another year. However, here’s what Mike at GoSimpleTax thinks you can
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