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Six steps to help get yourself ready for MTD for Income Tax

mike@gosimpletax

Making Tax Digital for Income Tax – you’ve heard of it, right? You know how it will impact you, when it’s being introduced and how it will change things? You may even have received a letter from HMRC telling you about it. None of that

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Two thirds of UK landlords plan to sell properties due to rising costs and regulation

mike@gosimpletax

According to GoSimpleTax, seven in ten UK landlords (69%) are planning to sell at least one property in the next 12 months, new research shows. The findings come amid rising costs, with landlords citing changing regulations, taxation, and a less attractive overall return as key

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Why summer is the perfect time to get your Self Assessment tax return sorted

mike@gosimpletax

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

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15 things every UK landlord should know about Capital Gains Tax

mike@gosimpletax

You 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

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Tax

Why file your Self Assessment tax return in April?

mike@gosimpletax

Having 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

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Tax

Yikes! MTD for ITSA introduction not far off!

mike@gosimpletax

Well, 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

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Tax

How to avoid the usual 31 January Self Assessment deadline panic

mike@gosimpletax

OK, 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

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Tax

How to file your UK Self Assessment tax return if you’re an expat

mike@gosimpletax

Some 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

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Money

Registering for Self Assessment as an expat

mike@gosimpletax

So, 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

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Tax

Time is fast running out to file your Self Assessment!

mike@gosimpletax

Just 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

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