Income Tax

  • BusinessAOL

    Self Assessment: what you need to do right now

    Not filed your tax return yet? The deadline for sending in a paper self assessment tax return by post has already passed, but you have until January 31 to file an online return, and make your first payment for the 2014/2015 tax year - That

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    How to pay tax like Facebook

    How do you feel about the fact that social media behemoth Facebook probably pays less tax than you? Probably a bit mad; but I don't want you to get mad, I want you to get even and reduce your tax bill too. Apparently Facebook paid

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  • BusinessAOL

    Watch out for these stealth taxes

    The Conservatives have been eager to convince us they're the party of lower taxes for the middle classes, but a variety of stealth taxes would suggest otherwise. The key tenet of the Tory party manifesto was to give hard-working people more

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  • PoliticsAOL

    Income tax and NI merger: a fair and honest way to tax

    Not content with reforming pensions taxation, the government has taken a step closer to merging income tax and national insurance (NI). There have already been scare stories that one straight-forward income tax would be a chance for the

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    Budget 2015: don't expect more money in your pocket

    The summer Budget is nearly upon us and predictions are rife as to what chancellor George Osborne will take his axe to. He has set himself the mammoth task of finding £12 billion of cuts and while it is expected that welfare benefits will be for

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    Lawson: cut top rate of income tax

    Former Tory chancellor Lord Lawson has urged George Osborne to use his first all-Conservative Budget next month to cut the top rate of income tax to 40p. Lord Lawson said the move would attract business to Britain while costing the Exchequer

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  • PoliticsAOL

    Will you pay less tax under a Tory government?

    The shock Conservative election win has left us all reeling, markets are up, business leaders are smiling and if you're a higher rate taxpayer or homeowner you may be smiling too. We were all gearing up for another hung parliament and

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