Tax returns news

For growing numbers of people, the 9-to-5 job is giving way to five to nine mini-jobs at once. With technology allowing for multiple income streams, it’s vital for ‘gig-workers’ to take better control of their personal tax and financial planning.

Is Sherlock Holmes’s hat tax-deductible? Does Mary Poppins claim for professional indemnity insurance? The tax returns of fiction’s greatest heroes and villains have been a closed book – until now! We bring you the most page-turning guide to self-employed expenses you’ll ever read. Article by Nick Green.

This year the UK public is set to waste around £4.6 billion in unnecessary tax. A similar figure was frittered away last year. Why is this happening, and is there anything we can do reduce this waste? The unbiased.co.uk and Prudential campaign TaxAction 2016 launches today, in a bid to do just that. If asked

They should really offer classes in tax at school – after all, it affects everyone. But perhaps the government doesn’t mind if you accidentally pay more tax than you need to? You, on the other hand, definitely should mind – so Ajay Naik of Bankfield is back with another valuable lesson. (If you missed part

The kids have gone back to school, but one thing they won’t learn about there is income tax. An alarming number of people in the UK still don’t understand all the ways in which they’re taxed. IFA Ajay Naik of Bankfield makes it his mission to help clients save money in this oft-neglected area. If

It seems a far cry from Wall Street, with young city men eating, sleeping and drinking money. New research suggests young men are a lot less enthusiastic about finance than their female peers. We can reveal that women under 35 are more likely to do their financial homework and financial planning ahead of time. This

Tax Action 2013 sponsors TaxCalc share their top Tax Action tips, starting with personal pension relief… Are you missing out on your pension tax relief? It is estimated that around 250,000 higher rate taxpayers are failing to make the most of their tax relief because they mistakenly believe they receive it automatically. Did you know