Our Spring Tax Update will be taking place across the region between the 8th and 10th March 2017.
The update will include the following:
•An update on the latest HMRC consultations
•Analysis of the tax announcements in the 2017 Budget
•A review of the current property tax environment
•The latest on Making Tax Digital and interaction with cloud accounting
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Staff update – newly appointed Partners
Holly Bedford became Tax Partner on
1 December 2016
• Corporate and personal taxation expert
• Leads the tax team in the Plymouth office
• Previously with Arthur Anderson in Chicago
and EY in London and Edinburgh
Lucinda Coleman will become Business
Recovery Partner on 1 April 2017
• Licenced insolvency practitioner and
Company Voluntary Arrangements expert
• Joined PKF Francis Clark as a graduate
trainee in 2003
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Staff update – newly appointed Partners
Jason Mitchell will become Partner on
1 August 2017
• Specialises in providing accountancy and
advisory services to the legal sector
• SRA Accounts Rules expert
• Provides a wide range of accountancy
services to SMEs across the region
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• Budget day changing to autumn from 2017
• This update will be in March again next year
More convenient timing for attendees
We have better information to share
Access to consultations and draft legislation
Spring tax update
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Programme for today
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Budget overview John Endacott, Head of Tax
Making tax digital John Endacott, Head of Tax
Business tax update Adam Kefford, Tax Consultant
Personal tax update Helen Lewis, Tax Partner
Financial planning update Andrew Welch, Chartered
Financial Planner
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• Worries over the economy – Brexit
• Digitisation and automation
Making tax digital (MTD)
Fourth industrial revolution
Productivity (or lack of it)
• Changing employment patterns
Attacks on self employment
Concern over incorporations
• Pressure on property owners – business rates
• Crackdown on evasion and ‘bad’ avoidance
Spring tax update - themes
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Making tax digital
New HMRC initiative revolutionising the way businesses file
online
• Landlords and unincorporated businesses with turnover over the
VAT registration limit start to file from 5 April 2018
• VAT will be filed via MTD from 5 April 2019, and businesses with
turnover below the VAT registration limit will start to file quarterly
• Corporates and large (> £10m) partnerships 5 April 2020
• Run-off of existing returns, plus any other income where HMRC
doesn’t receive details through third parties
• First years will have multiple deadlines to meet
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Making tax digital
• Deadline for submitting quarterly returns one month after the quarter
end
• Deadline for submitting final adjustments for year will be the sooner
of ten months after the year end, or 31 January following the year of
assessment (the existing tax return deadline)
• Applies to the first accounting period that begins after 5 April 2018,
so 5 April year ends’ first quarterly reporting date is 5 July 2018, and
first MTD deadline on 5 August 2018
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Making tax digital
Government has given some assurances regarding small
businesses, and the digitally excluded:
• Businesses can use spreadsheets for record keeping, but must file
via MTD-compliant software
• Businesses eligible for three line accounts can submit quarterly
updates with only three lines of data (income, expenses and profit)
• Free software will be available to businesses with “the most
straightforward affairs” – in practice, this will mean those under the
VAT registration limit and with no employees
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Making tax digital
• No need to scan in invoices
• Where more than one property is owned, only one update for the
entire property business required – originally appeared to be per
property
• Accounting adjustments not needed at quarterly updates – can be
made in final adjustment for year
• Declaration of partnership splits now optional for quarterly updates –
must be notified in year end adjustment
• Partnerships must return all income and gains i.e. investment
income as well as trading income
• Will not include CIS returns for the time being – current quarterly
return system will continue
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Making tax digital
• Government has yet to decide on de minimis limit below which MTD
will not apply
• £10,000 is too low (below the personal allowance) but unlikely that a
limit as high as the VAT registration threshold will be considered
acceptable
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• New funding designed to help the UK compete in science
and innovation includes:
£300m for research talent, including 1,000 PhD places for
STEM subjects
£270m for robots, driverless cars and biotech
£16m for a 5G mobile technology hub
£200m for fibre broadband
Science, 5G and robots
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Research and development
• SMEs – tax relief on allowable R&D is 230%
• £4,600 tax saved for £10,000 of spend
• Can also obtain a repayable tax credit of 14.5% on R&D losses -
net saving of 33.5% on qualifying R&D spend
• Large companies now must use ‘research and development
expenditure credit’ scheme – RDEC
• Taxable credit of 11%
• Net saving of 8.8% on qualifying expenditure
• Receive a tax credit – ‘above the line’
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• UK likely to remain in support of the OECD’s base
erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) project
• EU parent-subsidiary directive, EU interest and royalties
directive, EU merger directive
may be the case that full relief for all withholding taxes, whether
on dividends, interest and royalties is not available in some
cases
sections of the EU merger directive relating to EU member
shares would no longer apply to the UK and this could give rise
to increased tax costs in the UK for businesses undertaking
mergers
Brexit
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Corporation tax – interest deduction
• New rules will restrict each group’s net deductions for interest to
30% of EBITDA taxable in the UK or, if higher
An amount based on the net-interest to EBITDA ratio for the
worldwide group
If the group’s net interest deduction is below £2m then a full
deduction will be given regardless of the fixed ratio or group
ratio limits
• Existing debt cap legislation repealed and replaced with a modified
debt cap
• Ensures that the net UK interest deduction does not exceed the
total net interest expense of the worldwide group
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Corporation tax – interest deductibility
Foreign
Holdco
UK
Tradeco
100%
Lent £50m –
interest at
10%
Equity funding - £50m
• The groups interest charge is £5m.
• Group EBITA £8m therefore
allowable interest deduction is
capped to £2.4m.
• Disallowance of £2.6m which is
carried forward and available for
potential relief in future periods.
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Corporation tax - losses
• New rules will increase flexibility for relieving corporate
tax losses
• Losses arising from 1 April 2017 can be carried forward
and offset against other income streams
• Losses can also be carried forward and group relieved
• Companies with profits > £5m – only 50% of profits in
excess of £5m can be relieved by losses brought
forward
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Substantial shareholdings exemption
• SSE can apply to exempt gains on companies selling
shares (10%)
• Changes to SSE following consultation:
Removing investing company trading condition
Making it easier to sell shareholdings in multiple tranches
Removing post disposal investee trading condition
Broader exemption for companies owned by qualifying
institutional investors
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Liquidations and entrepreneurs’ relief
• 10% tax rate possible on liquidating trading company
• Members’ voluntary liquidation (MVL)
• Now have targeted anti-avoidance rules to catch:
Money boxing
Phoenixism
• Are you carrying out a similar trade or activity within two
years?
• Those caught treated as receiving a dividend
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Transactions in land
• Tightening of rules aimed at taxing gains on
development of land as trading income, not capital
• Previous rule – ‘sole or main object’ was to realise a
gain on disposal of land
• New rule – ‘main or one of main purposes’ is to realise
a gain
• Applies where other property (e.g. shares) derives
50+% of its value from land
• Impact on solar SPVs?
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Corporation tax – transactions in securities
The Government has confirmed that it will make no further
amendments to the legislation on company distributions at
this time, beyond the changes to the Transactions in
Securities anti-avoidance included in Finance Act 2016
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• ‘Nudge’ letters
• Increased HMRC data-collection powers
• Tougher sanctions for those in the hidden economy
• New fixed 30% VAT penalty for claiming input VAT which
the trader ‘knew or should have known’ was connected
with VAT fraud
No reductions for cooperation
Company officers may be personally liable
Liability engaged irrespective of the type of knowledge obtained
Anti-avoidance - onshore
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• Recent Press articles about ‘unfairness’ of self employed
paying ‘lower’ tax
• No recognition that they do not have any of the
employment protections enjoyed by employed workers
Maternity / paternity leave and pay
Holidays and holiday pay
Requirement for public liability / professional indemnity
insurances
• Government also considering incorporations – will there
eventually be a ‘look through’ to tax undistributed profits
of close companies at rates effectively equivalent to
income tax rates?
Employment vs self employment
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• IR35 aims to stop incorporation as way of achieving
PAYE/NIC advantage over directly employed individual
• From April 2017 – changes for those engaged by
public sector bodies apply when:
Worker personally performs services for end client
End client is public authority
If the contract had been directly with the end client the worker
would have been regarded as an employee
• Workers engaged in public sector via their own
‘personal service company’ will have their employment
status reviewed by public sector end client
IR35 public sector bodies
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• Increase in business rates from April 2017 -
revaluation of the rating list
• “Increase in rural rate relief to 100%, giving small
businesses in rural areas a tax break worth up to
£2,900 a year” Chancellor of the Exchequer, November 2016
• Transitional provisions failing to ease burden, too
narrowly focused
• Rural businesses unfairly treated because insufficient
thought given to the impact on them. Need to review
rateable values, and dispute them with the VAO
Business rates
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• £435m for firms affected by increases in business rates
• £300m hardship fund for small businesses worst affected
will be allocated to local authorities for discretionary use in ‘hard
cases’
• Pubs with rateable value of less than £100,000 to get a
£1,000 a year discount on rates they pay
• Any business losing existing small business rates relief
will not pay more than £50 a month extra
Business rates announcements
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• Currently 9% on earnings between £8,060 and £43,000
• NIC for the self-employed will rise by 1% (to 10%) from 6
April 2018, and
• By a further 1% (to 11%) on 6 April 2019
• Class 2 abolition already announced
National insurance for the self-employed
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• Dividend tax rates increased from 6 April 2016
• From 6 April 2016 individuals also have £5,000 tax free
dividend allowance
• From 6 April 2018 this will reduce to £2,000 a year
• Who is this targeted at?
Reduction in the dividend allowance
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Residential landlords under attack
• ATED for companies (2013)
• Non—resident CGT (2015)
• Increases in SDLT (2016)
• Increased capital gains tax rate on residential property (2016)
• Restrictions to the deduction of interest relief (2017)
• Payment dates for CGT (2019)
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• Deduction of full interest cost from profits to be
phased out
• Replaced with a phased in 20% tax reducer
• Some surprising (unexpected?) knock-on effects
Tax Year Interest relief
2017/18 75% of interest costs deductible against rental income, 25% tax
reducer
2018/19 50% of interest costs deductible against rental income, 50% tax
reducer
2019/20 25% of interest costs deductible against rental income, 75% tax
reducer
Interest relief
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Interest relief – an example
2016/17 2020/21
Rental income 45,000 45,000
General expenses (10,000) (10,000)
Allowable interest (30,000) -
Rental profit 5,000 35,000
Tax at 40% 2,000 14,000
Tax reducer at 20% - (6,000)
Tax payable on rental income 2,000 8,000
Net after tax income 3,000 (3,000)
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• Full interest relief
• Corporation tax rate 19% from 1 April, reducing to 17%
• Tax costs of setup
• capital gains tax; and
• stamp duty land tax
• Reliefs may be available to mitigate tax costs
• Profit extraction
Incorporation of rental business
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Stamp Duty Land Tax - residential rates
Main
residence
Second
home
or buy to let
Up to £40,000 Zero Zero*
Up to £125,000 Zero 3%
The next £125,000 (the portion from £125,001 to £250,000) 2% 5%
The next £675,000 (the portion from £250,001 to £925,000) 5% 8%
The next £575,000 (the portion from £925,001 to £1.5 million) 10% 13%
The remaining amount (the portion above £1.5 million) 12% 15%
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• 3% surcharge for additional residential property
purchase
• Applies to any acquisition of residential property by
a company
• Commercial and mixed use properties are
unaffected
• Furnished holiday lets included
• Multiple dwellings relief
Stamp duty land tax
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Residence nil rate band
• When a residence is passed on death to a direct
descendant:
• Unused band is transferable between spouses – potential
for £1 million IHT free
Tax year Rate of RNRB
2017/18 £100,000
2018/19 £125,000
2019/20 £150,000
2020/21 £175,000
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ISA limits from 6 April 2017
Reduction to tax free dividend allowance from April 2018
– increases benefit of ISA
• Cash and stocks & shares - £20,000 (2016/17 £15,240)
• Lifetime - £4,000 plus Government bonus 25%
• Help to buy - £1,200 in first month + £200pm thereafter plus
Government bonus of 25%
• Junior - £4,128 (2016/17 £4,080)
• Innovative finance - £20,000 (2016/17 £15,240)
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Focus on lifetime ISA
Alternative to pension?
• Dual purpose – save for first home and/or retirement
• 25% Government top up
• Open to 18-40 year olds (can continue to age 50)
• Access before age 60 results in loss of Government top up and
investment growth unless
Using funds to buy first property up to £450,000
Terminal illness
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Focus on junior ISA
Wealth transfer idea?
• Available from 0 to age 18 (becomes adult ISA at 18)
• Parents, grandparents, friends etc can contribute
• Using a calculator from Fidelity we can see that saving
£340 per month from birth to age 18 could produce a
fund of £101,322 assuming 5% annual growth
• An excellent way of transferring wealth down through
the generations with no tax consequences
• Could fund university fees or a property deposit
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NS & I bond
Interest rate confirmed at 2.2%
• Available to everyone over age 16
• £3,000 investment limit
• Three year term
• Available from April 2017 for 12 months
• Said to be ‘market leading rate’
• Open market shows Atom Bank offering 2.2% three
year fixed rate with FSCS protection up to £85,000!
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Pension update
Key changes/considerations
Budget confirmed reduction of annual allowance to
£4,000 from 6 April 2017 if money purchase annual
allowance triggered
What triggers it?
• Uncrystallised pension fund lump sum (UFPLS)
• Flexible access drawdown (income taken), but not if
just tax free lump sum
• Exceeding the income cap in capped drawdown
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Pension update
• From 6 April 2016 tapered annual allowance applies if
‘adjusted income’ exceeds £150,000
• Lifetime allowance reduced to £1m
• Individual protection 2014 deadline is 5 April 2017 for
those who had pension funds valued at more than
£1.25m at 5 April 2014
• Pension scams – consultation closed in February,
feedback due later this spring
• Aiming to tackle cold calling
• Giving powers to schemes to refuse pension transfers
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Pension carry forward
• Carry forward still available from previous three tax
years
• Useful for those caught by tapered annual allowance
• Be aware that 2013/14 carry forward (£50,000) drops
away on 6 April 2017
• Can only carry forward if you had a registered pension
plan in place for the tax years used in carry forward
• No pension plan but may want to save in future? Start
one now to ensure full scope of carry forward is open
to you when you need it
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Non earners’ pension contributions
• Can contribute up to £3,600 per annum gross
• Net cost £2,880 per annum
• Tax relief each year of £720
• Can contribute for children
• Pension funds generally free of inheritance tax
• In a low interest rate environment, 25% instant uplift in
value is significant
• Wealth transfer opportunity, grandparents contributing
for grandchildren?
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Pension allowances restricted?
• Venture capital trusts
• High risk but with significant tax advantages
• HMRC approved
• £200,000 annual investment limit
• 30% up front tax rebate
• Tax free growth and dividends
• Must be held for five years to retain tax benefits
Alternative tax efficient investing
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Editor's Notes
Part of our on-going commitment to progress and invest in our staff and acknowledging the experience and expertise they bring to the firm
Investing in new recruits across the tax practice, focussing on specialisms that our clients are requesting and who we believe will add significant value
So why cloud accounting?
Building upon the previous slide:
As the image shows, get away from the desktop. Mobile. Access anytime, anywhere.
And anyone. We advocate giving your accountant access = proactive advice.
Sharing servers = more processing = do more with it.
Machine learning: Artificial intelligence is like teaching a child,
Do it once, do it twice, then software remembers and recommends actions.
This cuts down input time, reduces errors and increases consistency.
APIs: Creating a joined up business solution.
Connect EPOS, stock, payment processing, CRM, etc. to accounting software.
And a bit about our software partners:
Platinum partners with Xero and QuickBooks.
These are the high street vendors aimed at the SME OMB market and cost c.£25 per month, before partner discounts.
Most people pay more for a telephone contract these days…
Exact sit in the space between these vendors and larger offerings like NetSuite and Oracle.
They have product sweet spots in manufacturing, wholesale & distribution and time & fees.
The average OMB is likely to see the owner doing the record keeping.
This could be at least an evening a week of their personal time,
Or during the day eating in to their chargeable or business development time.
By automating the input of bank transactions and invoices this allows you to focus your time on the business.
Then use that time to make business decisions based on real time data.
Either from a real time snapshot,
Or more detailed management accounts.
Let’s move on to a demo…
If you would like to know more…
Unfortunately Darren is currently away with Exact working on a joint plan for the next 12 months.