Category Archives: Personal Tax

Have you thought how increasing interest rates will impact your tax exposure?

For a long time, interest rates have been held at historic lows, arguably benefitting borrowers...

Rewarding Employees… without bankrupting the employer? Take some of the Taxman’s slice back!

The cost-of-living crisis, alongside constant news headlines covering strikes and pay awards, is heaping pressure...

RG Personal Tax Awareness Week

To mark Personal Tax Awareness Week at RG, during the month of July we challenged...

Are you maximising the IHT exemptions available to you on death?

In recent years you may have read the headline that couples with a combined estate...

Basis Period Reform

New rules will accelerate and increase taxation for many individuals who operate as sole traders...

Tax treatment of forfeited deposits

It is possible, albeit unfortunate, to lose a deposit and never own the asset to...

Gordon Wilkinson, Senior Manager, goes under the spotlight!

What is your role within RG? I am a Senior Manager in the Personal Tax...

Changes to the rules on Capital Gains Tax (CGT) for separated and divorcing couples

We have previously published articles explaining the tax implications of transferring assets between married couples...

Holiday Occupation

The Covid pandemic, coupled with a change in the rules around business rates, has left...

“Just like that”

Many people dream of turning a hobby into a business, either as a way of...

Pension Recycling

“70 is the new 60” or so they say.  More of us are choosing to...

Claire Charlton, Personal Tax Partner, goes under the spotlight!

What is your role within RG? I am head of the Personal Tax service line;...

Am I a Trustee and do I need to register the trust?

In simple terms, a Trustee is someone holding assets in their own name on behalf...

Struggling to pay tax – What should you do?

In a month when people may already be struggling to pay their Christmas credit card...