This document contains a short explanation of Capital Gains Tax, the allowances available in the 2024/25 tax year, and how you can use it in your year end tax planning.
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This section contains miscellaneous & general financial information that you may find useful when dealing with certain life events.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) does not regulate Taxation and Trust Advice, some Buy to Let Mortgages, Estate Planning or Inheritance Tax Planning.
Civil partnerships in the United Kingdom, granted under the Civil Partnership Act 2004, allow couples to obtain essentially the same rights and responsibilities as marriage. Initially the Act permitted only same-sex couples to form civil partnerships. This was altered to include opposite-sex couples in 2019. Though from March 2014 full same-sex marriage was legalised in England, Scotland and Wales, civil partnership remains available. Designed to be very much equivalent to marriage for same sex couples, a civil partnership carries both rights and responsibilities, in very broad terms, attracting the same legal and tax protections/advantages/disadvantages as a traditional marriage. This article explains further.
UK News
The chancellor indicates that moving closer to the EU on trade is a bigger priority than the US.
The forecast fall in the cost of energy would reverse three consecutive increases in the price cap.
Sales rose for the third month in a row in March as warmer weather helped to boost trade.
New powers mean law-breaking executives can be sent to prison for up to two years.
Not owning crucial code has meant it has been unable to replace the system that led to a scandal.