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Are you planning on, or in the process of, developing a video game? Have you considered one of HMRC’s creative industry tax reliefs, Video Games Tax Relief (VGTR) – you could be missing out on additional tax relief of up to 20% of qualifying development costs!

Free money!! Every company director loves a tax rebate, particularly when you have incurred expenditure on a project and someone tells you that not only is this expenditure tax deductible but for the same money spent you can get additional tax relief of 130% on the expenditure and either get a lovely big tax rebate by trading in losses at 14.5% or reduce your tax liabilities down significantly.

Residential rental income is an exempt supply for VAT purposes, and so as a rule VAT cannot be charged on this income or reclaimed on related expenses. However, if you’re in a situation where you’re a landlord, but also run a VAT registered business making taxable supplies as a self-employed individual, then there may be a way you can reclaim VAT on your rental expenses too through your VAT Returns.

Higher rate tax payer? Looking to build wealth? Thought about creating your own property investment company? Pros and cons.

This blog looks at which investments are tax efficient and how you can minimize the tax payable on your financial investments.

Property has been a popular investment for many years and some people view their property portfolio as their retirement pot, particularly where their conventional pension is unlikely to produce sufficient income for their lifestyle. Buy to lets, commercial property investment and furnished holiday lets are all popular, but recently they have been joined by a ‘new kid on the block’ the serviced accommodation and this sector is growing substantially.

In a recent blog we looked at using a company to hold property investments, however an alternative (and sometimes overlooked) vehicle for ownership of all family investments, property or otherwise, is through a trust structure.

With energy costs going through the roof it could make sense to make small eco-friendly improvements to your property which can reduce running costs and also add value to your property.

I’ll start this with the same thoughts that many of us all had back in early 2020, a vision of the world going just a little bit crazier every day. For me it initially evoked an emotion of fear, of the anxiety of the unknown and what might happen, the day-to-day monitoring of numbers of infections, the responsibility to keep a team safe, the tenuous and treacherous emotional reliance I placed on the preparation of our government to guide us through the virus and the emerging clarity that came with half-baked solutions and a gaping chasm of guidance that came from the ‘solutions’ offered.