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Frozen income tax thresholds are quietly raising billions without a single rate change. Here's how fiscal drag actually works, and what to check this year.
With easy-access accounts paying 4-5%, a basic-rate saver can breach their Personal Savings Allowance with around £20,000. How the PSA works, the £5,000 starting rate nobody mentions, and how HMRC quietly collects the tax.
What sole traders can claim against HMRC: the wholly-and-exclusively test, simplified flat-rate expenses, the costs people forget, and the ones that simply aren't allowable.
If you sold a few hundred pounds of unwanted clothes online last year, you almost certainly owe HMRC nothing — but
There is a tax break worth £252 a year that around two million eligible UK couples never claim, and it
The ISA is the most useful tax shelter most UK savers have, and the rules are simpler than they look. Here's how the £20,000 allowance works and which ISA suits you.
MTD for ITSA is live from 6 April 2026 above £50k. Five housekeeping moves before summer that prevent January 2027 panic and the 60% marginal tax trap on the £100k-£125k band.
The annual CGT exemption fell to £3,000 from April 2026 — but the change everyone missed was the simultaneous tightening of trading vs investing rules for resellers. eBay flippers, Vinted closet-clearers, even concert-ticket resellers are now in HMRC's CGT crosshairs.
Earning between 100,000 and 125,140 in the UK in 2026/27? Your marginal tax rate is 60% — and over 100% if you use funded childcare. The honest guide to the trap, and four HMRC-approved escapes.
Most UK small businesses dodge VAT registration until HMRC forces the issue. Sometimes that is the wrong call. The 2026/27 guide to voluntary registration, the Flat Rate Scheme, and the Limited Cost Trader trap.
The dividend allowance is £500. The basic rate is 8.75%. The higher rate is 33.75%. Owner-managers are rebuilding their pay structure for the 2026/27 year.
Pension tax relief is generous until it isn't. A working guide to the tapered annual allowance, salary sacrifice and the traps catching high earners.