Tax

How to avoid the usual 31 January Self Assessment deadline panic

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

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

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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Time is fast running out to file your Self Assessment!

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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Retirement tax-planning options for UK landlords

This 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

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Make completing your Self Assessment tax return fun!

OK, 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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Completing a Self Assessment tax return for previous tax years

Mike over at GoSimpleTax provides answers to frequently asked questions about completing and filing Self Assessment tax returns for previous tax years. Why might I submit Self Assessment tax returns for previous years? A common scenario is where HMRC has issued a notice to file