Judge Boots Out HMRC Bid To Set Minimum SEIS Investment
Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme investors have no minimum barrier before they can claim tax relief on their stake in a start-up company, a tribunal has ruled. HM Revenue & Customs had tried to...
View ArticlePitfalls Waiting For Unwary SEIS Investors
Potential profits and generous tax breaks are a heady brew that tempt many investors to plough cash into start-ups with the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme. But it’s easy to ignore the pitfalls that...
View ArticleSEIS tax breaks and investments under Whitehall scrutiny
The Treasury is scrutinising how the money raised for Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme is being spent, according to a leading civil servant. Donald Stark, head of investment tax at the Treasury says...
View ArticleWhere To Invest If You Have Maxed Out Your Pension
Around this time of year a lot of serious investors realise that they have maxed out their pension and ISA tax allowances. With three-quarters of the financial year gone, where can they put any...
View ArticleQuick Guide To Making A SEIS Investment
The Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) is considered a world leader in raising start-up cash for entrepreneur with new business ideas. Investing is straightforward and offers some generous tax...
View ArticleSEIS Raises £800 Million For Start-Up Entrepreneurs
An investment scheme offering generous tax breaks has raised more than £799 million for start-up companies, according to the latest data. The Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) has helped 8,840...
View ArticleTax Breaks Boost Profits For The Smarter Investor
Smart investors want their cake and to eat it too – that means looking for great returns that are boosted by tax breaks. UK taxpayers have a range of choices for tax-free returns on investing their...
View ArticleVCTs Lure Savers With Maxed Out Pension Tax Breaks
An increase in the number venture capital trust (VCT) investors is probably because they are looking elsewhere for tax breaks after maxing out their pension savings. HM Revenue & Customs suggests...
View ArticleHMRC Doesn’t Know What It’s Doing With £155 Billion Tax Reliefs
The tax man is doling out billions in tax reliefs but doing little to monitor where the money is going, says a watchdog report. Tax reliefs add up to around £155 billion a year and were introduced as...
View ArticleHMRC SEIS Approval Is No Guarantee For Investors
Start-ups on crowdfunding platforms try to tempt investors to stake their cash with them by flagging they belong to the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) – but what does this mean? SEIS is a tax...
View ArticleSeed Enterprise Investment Scheme 2016
The Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) is aimed at attracting venture capitalists to inject cash into start-up businesses and in return they receive tax incentives. Chancellor George Osborne set...
View Article£60k Pension Tax Relief Up For Grabs To Top Earners
Complicated tax rules can mean top earners miss out almost £60,000 in tax relief when they pay into a pension. From April 6, additional rate (45%) income taxpayers earning more than £150,000 will see...
View ArticleRed Tape Strangling SEIS And EIS, Claims Expert
Complicated red tape can see investors lose valuable tax breaks offered by companies in the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS), according to experts. Investors are lured to SEIS by the promise of...
View ArticlePension Switch Expats Face Unexpected Tax Bills
British expats in New Zealand could be hit by unexpected tax bills for switching their pensions from the UK. Tax demands have gone out to expats following a New Zealand Inland Revenue review of pension...
View ArticleWatch Out For SEIS Investment Pitfalls
Investors in start-ups and fast-growing companies can benefit from some generous tax breaks – but can lose out because the companies fail to keep within HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) rules. Tax...
View ArticleSEIS On Track To Smash £0.5 Billion In Investment
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has published the latest Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) statistics – including new data about advance assurance requests. SEIS is the government’s flagship tax...
View ArticleCan Foreign Companies Raise SEIS Investments?
British investors are increasingly looking for the chance to invest in overseas companies while collecting generous tax breaks. Lots of overseas companies have realised that the rules of British tax...
View ArticleSEIS v VCT for investors
If you have maxed out your pension contributions for the year and still have cash to invest, where’s the best place to look for a better than average return? To attract money into start-up businesses,...
View ArticleSEIS And EIS Shake-Up If Tories Win Election 2017?
Business angels may pick up some extra tax breaks if the Tories win Election 2017. Britain already has the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) and Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS), which both...
View ArticlePension Tax Relief Honeypot Is A Lure For Chancellors
Pension tax relief is a £38.6 billion honeypot that may a future Chancellor may find too much of temptation to resist. The relief is money the government pays to top up pension contributions into...
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