Our Spring Tax Updates will be taking place across the region in March 2018. The update will include the following: • Comment on the latest legislative changes • Provide practical advice • Help to prepare for the end of the tax year • Give thoughts on the current tax policy

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March 2018
Spring tax update

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Scott Bentley, Partner
Chair’s welcome

3. Housekeeping
@pkfFrancisClark
#FCSpringTax18 #Truro
A copy of the
slides will be sent
to you by email
shortly

4. Staff update – New Tax Partner
Daniel Sladen will become Tax Partner based in our
Truro office on 1 April 2018
• A corporate and business tax specialist
• A particular focus on property investment and
development, technology, and business restructuring
• Joined PKF Francis Clark in 2016, having qualified as
a tax adviser with a ‘Big 4’ firm, before working in the
City of London for 15 years

5. Spring tax update 2018
Business tax update – Daniel Sladen
Private client update – Steve York
Financial planning update – Andrew Newcombe

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Hammond’s Spring Statement
• Light at the end of the tunnel?
• Mission accomplished on the deficit?
• Any chance of tax cuts?
• UK productivity – how do we improve real living
standards?
• R&D – unleashing inventors & discoveries
• Corporate tax & digital economy consultation

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The Corbyn factor
• Clients are concerned
• Many feel that wealth is under attack
• Non-residence being considered by some
• Succession – a good time to pass the
business on?

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A good tax environment for SMEs?
Capital gains tax on
trading businesses
10% tax up to £10m
Capital gains tax generally 20% or 28%
Inheritance tax 100% business &
agricultural property relief
Corporation tax 19% reducing to 17%

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Daniel Sladen,
Tax Director
Business tax update

10. Business tax update
• Gig economy
• Employment intermediaries
• International taxes
• Business incentives
• Corporation tax reform
• Making tax digital

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Gig economy
• ‘Gig economy’ – reliance on self-employed labour
• No PAYE/NIC & limited employment law
• Taylor review of Modern Working Practices - July 17
• To act on all but one of the 53 recommendations
• ‘Millions to benefit from enhanced rights as
government responds to Taylor review of
modern working practices’

12. Employment intermediaries
Employer
Mr A (employee) Mr A (shareholder and director of A Ltd)
Client
A Ltd
Employee paid a salary subject
to:
• PAYE 20/40/45%
• Employees’ NIC 12/2%
• Employers’ NIC 13.8%
Client engages A Ltd:
• Pays fees
• No NIC, no PAYE
A Ltd pays Mr A:
• Salary (below NIC level)
• Dividends (no NIC, lower IT)

13. Employment intermediaries
• IR35 failed to work as intended
• IR35 - onus on intermediary
• April 2017 - provisions for services
provided to the public sector
• Moves onus onto public sector body
• Extension to private sector

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International taxes
• Reducing global corporate tax rates
• Multilateral Instrument (MLI)
• Requirement to correct – Sept 18
• Public register for overseas owners of UK
property
• ‘There are around 97,000 properties in England
and Wales held by overseas firms, as of
January 2018’ BBC
• Changes for non-UK resident entitles holding
UK property

15. Overview of tax changes - property
April 2013 April 2015 July 2016 April 2017 April 2019
Introduction
of ATED
NRCGT
introduced
Transaction
in land rules
Non-dom IHT
reform
Extension of
NRCGT
&
CT charge on
UK rents

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Business incentives
• Lowest CT rate in G20
• VAT threshold is the highest in the OECD
• RDEC increased from 11% to 12%
• SME R&D - 230% (£4.4k tax saved for £10k spend)
• Tax efficient investments (EIS limits doubled)
• Capital allowances (removal of IA)

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Corporation tax reforms
• Corporate interest restriction
• Restriction where UK net interest exceeds
£2.0m
• Rules are complex & continue to be refined
• Is the limit modest?
• Corporate losses regime
• More favourable for SMEs
• Restriction if b/f losses > £5.0m
• Effects of innovative finance?
• Nominated company & group allowances
statement
• Effect on structures
• Impact on tax cash flows
• Ensure financial models reflect changes
• Compliance and due diligence

18. Making tax digital
• Digital approach to tax compliance
• April 2019 launch date – VAT only
• Businesses with a turnover above £85k:
• Need to keep their records digitally
• Provide VAT return information through
MTD compatible software
• No change to submission deadlines
• Further information to follow
• Extension to other taxes?

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Steve York
Tax Director
Private client update

20. Private client update
• Review of inheritance tax
• Non resident capital gains tax
• Changes to non-dom rules
• SDLT recent changes
• Residential property owned by
companies

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• HMRC research paper on the use of APR &
BPR
• Published in November 2017
• General objectives were found to be that of:
• Tradition
• Succession of wealth
• Preservation of business
• Reducing IHT - generally secondary
• Is it going to get any better?
Review of inheritance tax

22. Review of inheritance tax
OTS REVIEW OF IHT
Increasing asset values
NRB £325k since 2009
Annual exemption still £3k
RNRB - too complex?
Decision
distortion?
PETs - encourage gifts
Trust taxation
Simpler, fairer and better?
HMRC challenge
use of reliefs

23. Non resident capital gains tax
• NRCGT in force since April 2015
• NRCGT return & payment within 30 days
• Many have not been aware of requirements
• Substantial penalties levied

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Non resident property gains
• To apply to all types of UK property from April
2019
• NRCGT rules
• Residential property
• Commercial property
• Scope to be extended to include indirect
disposals
• Reporting requirement for UK advisers
• Transactions in land – broadened to capture
more property transactions

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Non-dom tax reform
• Significant change to the taxation of non-
doms
• The concept of ‘deemed domicile’ is, with
effect from April 2017:
• Extended to apply to all taxes (not just IHT)
• UK resident in 15 / 20 tax years
• Returning non-doms - UK dom when UK
resident
• Residential property no longer excluded

26. SDLT recent changes
• Growing in complexity
• Additional 3% charge
• Multiple dwellings
• Residential or mixed use?
• Multiple purchasers
• Relief for first time buyers

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Declaration of trust
• Often used for income tax purposes
• Mortgage transfer = consideration
• Rules changed for spouses
• No SDLT on mortgage < £125k
Property incorporation
• Income tax relief on mortgage interest
restricted to basic rate
• CGT – holdover gains if there is a
business
• SDLT – normally chargeable on market
value
• No SDLT if partnership
SDLT practical examples

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• Annual tax on enveloped dwellings
• Companies which own UK residential
property valued > £500,000
• Valuation 1 April 2017 is required
• Reliefs must be claimed
ATED
2018/19 returns and tax due by
30 April 2018

29. ATED – why claim reliefs?
Avoid paying
ATED charge
Penalties if
ATED form
not completed
Avoid ATED-
related CGT
on sale (28%)
Avoid 15%
SDLT rate – 3
year clawback

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Andrew Newcombe
Chartered Financial Planner
Tax saving with no worries

31. Agenda
• ISA innovations
• Pension perks
• Inheritance Tax saving plus
‘income’ solution
• Enterprise Investment Scheme
rule change

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Innovating ISAs
• Allowance now £20,000 per annum
• Four types
• Cash
• Investment (including AIM)
• Innovative
• Lifetime ISA (LISA)
• Growth free from CGT and Income
tax free
• New flexible feature, take money out
and put back in without losing
allowance/tax benefits

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Innovative Finance ISA
• Investing in
• Peer 2 Peer Lending
• Crowdfunding debentures
• Higher risk than cash, potentially
higher returns, tax free status useful if
investing in this area already
• Can’t transfer existing
P2P/Crowdfunding assets to ISA
• Can split your £20k across Cash,
Investment, Innovative and LISA (LISA
if you are under 40)

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• Rising by £30,000 and will increase by CPI each year
Pension Lifetime Allowance
• Increasing on 6 April after years of reductions

35. Tapering Annual Allowance – use it or lose it
• Tapering for those with Adjusted Income > £150,000
• Annual Allowance of £40,000 reduced by £1 for every £2 of
income > £150,000
• £210,000 of Adjusted Income = £10,000 annual allowance
• Carry Forward might be available from unused allowances in
previous 3 tax years
• Carry Forward becoming restricted as more previous years will
be affected by Tapering
• Still opportunity to use 2014/15 and 2015/16 tax years for
unrestricted Carry Forward

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Pension contributions for non-earners
• Non earners can still contribute £3,600 pa to pension
• Net cost only £2,880
• Tax relief of £720 added by HMRC, 25% uplift!
• Build up funds for non-earning spouse, children, grandchildren
• Tax free growth, flexible access from age 55
• Valuable method of passing assets down through generations
• Future generations less likely to have quality pension schemes

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IHT saving plus ‘income’
• Place funds in a Discounted Gift Trust
within an Investment Bond wrapper
• Generally available to those up to age 90
(subject to medical underwriting)
• Immediate ‘discount’ given removing assets
from your estate for IHT purposes
• Tax deferred income of up to 5% of initial
investment for up to 20 years

38. Discounted Gift Trust
Investor age 75
(Settlor)
Discount
£49,200
Retained
fund
£50,800
Investment
Bond
£100,000
Assignment Payment
Trust
OR
Regular
withdrawal
£400

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Enterprise Investment Scheme changes
• Effective from Royal Assent of Finance Bill expected this
week
• New principles-based test to be introduced
• To ensure investment directed towards companies seeking
investment for long term growth and development
• Tax motivated investments where tax relief provides all or
most of the return no longer eligible
• Message – EIS still attractive but risk now higher

40. No responsibility can be accepted for any action taken as a result of information contained in this presentation. We therefore strongly
recommend that no action should be taken before obtaining detailed professional advice.
Past performance is not a guide to future returns and the value of investments and income from them may go down as well as up and an
investor may not get back the amount invested.
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Chair close

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Takeaways
• Digital & gig economy in the sights
• Innovation will be supported
• Interest relief continuing to be restricted
• Property wealth being targeted
• Pension reliefs being restricted
• Consider succession planning
• Now may even be a good time to pay some tax

43. Contact us
For all of your taxation advice
Truro office: 01872 276477