Specialist Tax Regulatory Materials
HMRC has published new guidance for stakeholders. Subjects covered in this guidance include how to send excise goods by parcel from Great Britain to Northern Ireland and how to apply the excise duty off-set calculation to any excise goods being sent as a parcel from Great Britain to Northern Ireland. While the Brexit transition/implementation period ended at 11 pm on 31 December 2020 (IP completion day), the government continues to issue new and updated Brexit webpages and guidance documents on the associated legal and practical changes. Further guidance may continue to be issued, so stakeholders are advised to monitor these pages for updates.
Jurisdiction(s): England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and European Union
SEIS and EIS 鈥� overviewThe seed enterprise investment scheme (SEIS) and enterprise investment scheme (EIS) are very similar schemes which offer substantial tax incentives to investors in companies which qualify. The tax incentives for SEIS and EIS investments are intended to encourage investment in
Settlor-interested trustsWhat is a settlor-interested trust?A settlor-interested trust is one where the person who created the trust, the settlor, has kept for himself some or all of the benefits attaching to the property which he has given away. A straightforward example is where a settlor
Taxation of dividend incomeIntroductionA dividend is a distribution of profit by a company to its shareholders.A dividend is not only a payment in cash. It can be the issue of new shares in exchange for forfeiting the right to a cash payment (a stock dividend). For more detail, see the Cash
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