Many tax advisers will be familiar with the ‘split-year’ residence treatment offered by ESC A11. This will include cases where an individual leaves the UK to work under a full-time employment contract abroad (spanning at least one UK tax year). A word of warning as some have not looked at the small print of the concession. It does not affect the UK tax treatment of dividends paid after someones leaves for the purposes of a long term employment contract abroad. ESC A11 specifically says that the concession does not apply to for the purposes of s811 ITA 2007 which applies to limit UK tax on UK dividends etc received by a non-residence. This only applies for complete UK tax years and is not therefore subject to the ESC a11 split year treatment. This can have an important impact on the timing of UK dividend payments after someones goes abroad and claims non-resident status for the remaining part of the UK tax year of departure. Overseas tax and treaty relief also needs to be factored in.
Monthly Archives: December 2011
Tax Planning for Family & Owner Managed Companies (TPFOMC) – 2011/12
I am happy to announce that the 2011-12 edition of TPFOMC, published by Bloomsbury Professional, has just been published and now available from the publishers, Amazon and all other good book stores.
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Welcome to my new website and blog which goes live today!
I practice as an independent tax consultant. My main specialisms are corporate tax, company reorganisations, corporate finance tax (including company sales and acquisitions) and all aspects of owner managed business taxation.
I’ve worked at BDO LLP for nearly 20 years, acting most recently as their National Tax Technical Partner.
I am widely-recognised as a tax author and lecturer and I regularly contribute to the professional press. I won Taxation’s ‘Tax Writer of the Year’ award in 2002 and was shortlisted for the award in 2008, 2009, and 2011. Also, in 1994, I won the Chartered Institute of Taxation Fellowship Thesis prize for my thesis on “Selling companies for a deferred consideration (with particular reference to earn-outs)”.
I currently chair the ICAEW Tax Faculty’s SME Business Tax Committee.
I will be blogging here regularly so please check back anytime for news.
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Peter