R03 Flashcards
Total Income - Appropriate Deductions e.g.?
=?
PACI: PCs, Allowable Business Losses, Charity, Interest Payments
Net Income
Limit on Income Tax Reliefs?
Reliefs include?
Greater of £50k, or, 25% of Adjusted Total income.
SPIT: Trade Losses, Property Loss Relief, Share Loss Relief, Interest (Qualifying Loans)
How does gift aid work?
Charity reclaims 20%, Donor has BR/HR limits increased by grossed-up amount.
Beneficial Loans?
Taxable Benefit = (‘Official’ (2%) - Actual Interest Rate Charged) x Loan Amount
<£10,000: Not taxable
Married Couple’s allowance?
Either born before 1935.
£11,080 at 10%, reduced by £1 for every £2 adjusted net income over £37k. Minimum £4280
Taxable Income Rates?
£0-£37.7k –> 20%
£37.7 - £150k –> 40%
>£150k –> 45%
Order in which income is taxed?
To remember?!
NSDO(n):
Non-Savings
Savings (+ Offshore Gains)
Dividends
Onshore
N-SDOn (N-Zone)
Child Benefit?
High income CB Charge?
£25.60, or, £16.95 for additional children.
Reduced by 1% for every £200 >£60k.
Gift Aid reciprocal benefits from charity cannot exceed?
<£100: 25% of Donation
>£100: Sum of 25% + 5% XS over £100
Tax relief of charitable giving?
Pre-Eminent Objects?
Charity: Donation Market Value taken from Taxable Income. No CGT.
Pre-Eminent: 30% object tax-reduction, against IT/CGT over next 5 years.
Annual Allowance? Carry forward?
Reduced AA if?
£60k, up to 3yrs.
Tapered (AI >£240k, TI <£200), MPAA (£10k)
RElief at Source? Types of pension using R@S?
REclaimed after tax.
Personal Pensions
Net Pay arrangement? Pensions using NPA?
Paid from gross income before tax paid.
Occupational Schemes
Relief by making a claim?
RACs
Net Income - Personal Allowances =?
Tax reducers?
Taxable Income
- EIS, VCT, SEIS
Self-Employed taxation?
Yrs?
Via ‘Basis of Assessment’ periods, do not need to coincide with tax year.
1st: Part of profits taxed
2nd: 12mths, or, accounting period ending that year
3rd: As per accounting period
Overlap from 1st/2nd Yrs as tax relief
Fringe Benefits:
Cash Equivalent/Non-Cash/Company Cards: Employee taxed at cost to employer.
Assets: Taxed at ‘Annual Value’; 20% of market value at purchase.
In-House: Marginal Cost to Employer.
‘In-House’ Benefits with No Taxable benefit examples:
Employees pay wholesale
Teachers pay 15% or more
Prof Services
Non-Displacing Rail/Bus fares
Car Benefit?
Electric: % rate on range
Diesel: 4% surcharge if doesn’t meet RDE2 (Max 37% charge)
Petrol: Now via WLTP
Car Benefit example?
- List Price £27k
- Discounted Cost to Employer £28k
- Accessories £4.5k
- CO2 143g/km (32%)
32% x (27k + 4.5k) = 10,080
Classic cars (15 or more yrs old)?
% based on engine size X Current Market Value (Not original price)
Car benefit: Capital contribution limit?
Employee can contribute up to £5k, which will be deducted from list price before benefit calculated.
Free fuel for private use tax?
Car Benefit % x Fuel benefit Charge (27,800 for 23/24)
Mileage Allowance rules?
Rates?
Commuting to usual place of work: Not taxable. Temporary place: Taxable.
Cars: 45p for 10k miles, then 25p
Motorbikes: 24p
Bikes: 20p
Passengers 5p
Company Vans?
Taxable benefit of £3500 for employees + £757 for fuel
Calculating beneficial loans?
Cheap/Interest-Free <£10k?
Difference between ‘Official’ and ‘Actual’ Interest rate.
Not taxable.
E.g. £20,000 x (2%-1%) = £200 charged
Taxable Benefit: Accommodation?
Additional charge if?
Owned >6yrs before employee use: XS of market value over £75k x ‘Official’ Interest Rate
Owned <6yrs: Greater of ‘Annual Value’ (Expected if rented), or, Rent actually paid by employer.
> £75,000 –> XS over £75k x ‘Official’ Interest Rate, added
Taxable Benefit: Furnished Accommodation?
Additional 20% of Market Value of Furniture/Equipment added
Employers Medical insurance taxation? Exemption?
Taxable, unless necessary for employee working abroad.
£500, to help employees return to work.
Examination/Screening required by employer: Not taxable
Private Medical insurance?
Premiums subject to insurance premium tax.
Benefits paid tax free.
If employer contributes; deduction against CT. Rx as Taxable BiK.
Benefits exempt from tax?
Group IP
Meals/Phones
Long Service Awards
Relocation/Removal Expenses
Homeworking (20% on £6/wk)
Workplace Childcare
Adjusted vs Threshold Income?
Adj: includes PCs
Thresh: excludes PCs
Life assurance policy gain taxation?
Full gain used to calculate Adjusted Net Income.
Top-sliced gain used for relief.
Marriage Allowance?
Can backdate?
Transfer 10% PA (£1260) BR to little/no income earner.
Up to 4 years.
PA trap?
Paying effective rate of?
PA reduced by £1 each £2 over £100k.
60% (40% ‘normal’ + 20% loss of PA)
Married couples allowance trap?
Effective rate of?
MCA reduced by £1 every £2 gross income over £30,400 down to £3530.
25% (20% BR + 5% ‘half of MCA’)
Blind persons allownce?
£3070
Starting Rate for Savings?
Reduced by?
Where savings income falls within first £5000 taxable income.
£1 for every £1 over PA.
Tax Charge?
‘IRPET’
Income (Total)
- Reliefs: ‘PACI’
- PA
- Extend Bands by PCs/Gift Aid
- Tax
- Reduce by ‘Tax Reducers’: MA, MCA
Parent £100 rule?
If capital from parents produces interest >£100 in child’s name, taxed as per parents. Unless sin a JISA.
Bare Trust
- Inputs?
- Tax?
- £100 rule apply? Regardless, benefit may be?
PETs
Income taxed as per beneficiary’s IT, via trust income on self-ax form.
Yes.
CGT charged to minor, with their allowances.
Vulnerable Beneficiaries trusts can be?
Types of Beneficiary?
Tax rules?
Bare, Discretionary, or, IIP.
Disabled or Relevant Minor.
Income/gains taxed as per beneficiaries tax position (not usual ‘relevant property’ rules).
Vulnerable beneficiaries:
- How much before proving for their benefit?
- Tax Rx?
3K/3% w/o proving for beneficiary.
Trustees income tax liability reduced by: (tax trustees would pay - tax beneficiary would pay).
LI/IIP Trust?
Trustees: Pay 20% IT for beneficiary, cannot use allowances.
Beneficiaries: Income from trust at MR, beyond 20% paid within trust. May reclaim/pay more.
Trust income form?
R185
LI/IIPs: Trustees expenses set against income before being paid to beneficiary how?
‘UFSO’
UK Dividends
Foreign Dividends
Savings income
Other Income
IIP trust created on death by will?
Chargeable transfer?
Subject to periodid/exit charges? IHT?
Immediate Post Death Interest (IPDI) trust.
Not if to spouse, but otherwise yes.
No. Included in Life tenants taxable estate.
IIP trusts created whilst settlor alive (‘Lifetime Trusts’) since 2006?
Charges? IHT on these charges?
In beneficiaries’ taxable estate?
CLTs in at 20%, grossed-up if by settlor (so 25% to account for trustees’ tax due).
Periodic + Exit Charges. 6%.
No.
IIP created whilst settlor alive (‘Lifetime Trusts’) BEFORE 2006?
Charges?
IHT?
Gifts were PETs.
No charges.
Within IIP beneficiary taxable estate.
LI/IIP Trust: Income tax on trust?
Direct to Beneficiary: Don’t report, no expenses deductible from income.
Via trust: Trustees pay BR IT (w/o allowances)
Interest payments are allowable deductions if?
Shares in company/close company
Partnership Iv
IHT
Plant & Machinery
Employee NICs paid from/to?
16 to 66 (SPA); no contributions thereafter even if working.
Employee NICs limits?
LEL: Get Benefits £123/wk
1 Threshold: Pay 8% over £242
UEL: Pay less - 2% over £957
Employer NICs?
2 Threshold: Pay 13.8% over £175
Upper 2 Threshold: For <21, pay 13.8% over £967
NICs based on what time period?
Directors?
Pay periods: Wk to mth
Annual, due to irregularity.
How are NICs paid?
Both employee and employer contributions paid monthly by employer via PAYE
NIC 1A?
Trivial benefits?
Employer contributions payable on fringe benefits/redundancy payments.
<£50 are free from NICs
NICs ‘credited’ even if not paying in?
Unemployed/Sickness
Full Time Training
Mat/Pat Pay
Annual maximum NICs?
Limit on how much NIC is at 8% between multiple employments/self-employed.
Class 2 NICs?
Nil <£6725 (Small Profits Threshold).
Wkly standard £3.45/wk above SPT.
Class 2 exceptional jobs?
Share fisherman: £4.10/wk
Sub-Postmasters: C1s from salary, C2+4s from trading profits
GCSE Examiners: ‘Self-Employed’ (Though ‘employed for IT)
Class 4?
Nil up to Lower Profits Limit £12,570 (PA)
6% up to Upper Profits Limit £50,270
- Max payable = £2262 = (£50,270 - £12,570) x 6%
2% beyond UPL
Annual Maximum Contributions: Employed + Self-Employed?
C1 + C2?
C2 + C4?
C1 + C2 + C4?
C1 + C2 = £3016 (Max payable for Main Rate C1s, i.e., £37,700 x 8%).
C2 + C4 = No restriction
C1 + C2 + C4 = Separate C4 limit: Max C4 at UEL (£2262) – Main Rate C1s paid
C3 NICs?
How long after relevant year?
Voluntary
£17.45 quarterly/monthly up until SPA.
6 Years
CGT if acquired before 01/04/82?
Market value at that date.
CGT in year of separation/not at arms length?
‘Non commercial’ transfer so market value used.
Difference in how CGT and IHT are valued?
CGT is asset valued, IHT is loss to estate. E.g. company shares may be low CGT, but high IHT if affects control.
Employed vs Self Employed contracts for?
Employed: Contract of service
Self-Employed: Contract for Services
Share options and NICs?
Payable on shares acquired under unapproved share option schemes.
- So Start Ups can face huge liability when options exercised.
Employer allowance with regard to C1 NICs? Except?
£5000
Companies where director is sole employee
Employer contributions >£100,000/yr
Married women NICs?
Receive?
Until 1977, pay reduced ‘small stamp’ rate: 1.85% on £242-£967.
Reduced Benefits
NICs if moves abroad?
Social security contributions usually in country where employee works. Though can get up to 2yrs EEA, or, 3yrs Norway period in which continue UK contributions.
Company directors with annual NIC period charged how?
£12,584 (£242 x 52) @ 0%
Up to £50,284 (£967 x 52) @ 8%
Over £50,284 @ 2%
CGT: If deferred CGT is ascertainable, but payment is >18mths since disposal?
HMRC allow payment of tax in instalments.
CGT for Chattels?
Exempt if <£6000
>£6000 chargeable gain cannot be >5/3rds of XS >£6000
Gain for property?
Gain x (Period of Occupation & Allowable Absences/Total Period of Ownership)
CGT Letting relief?
Where owner in shared occupancy to lesser of:
£40k
Exemption on part occupied by owner
CGT losses:
- Claimed within?
- Carried forward for?
Claimed within 4yrs
Indefinitely (Not carried back)
What are clogged losses?
Losses on transacting with connected parties. Can only be used against gains with connected party.
CGT taxation?
Allowance: £3000
18% on Residential Property/Others within BR Band
24% Residential Property/’Other Chargeable Assets’
28% on ‘Carried Interest’ if you manage Iv Fund
To determine income for CGT purposes in same year as chargeable gain on Life Assurance?
Top sliced gain counts as income
(NOT total life assurance gain)
Business Asset Disposal Relief:
who?
Sole Trader/>5% share in trading company for at least 2 years.
Gain taxed at 10%, to limit of £1m
BAD relief: if shares are from an Enterprise Management Scheme must have?
Bought shares after 04/2013
Been given option to buy >2yrs before selling them.
BAD relief still available if >5% shareholding?
Only if results from company raising funds by issuing new shares.
Investors relief?
Mix of BADR & EIS!
10% CGT rate up to £10m on unlisted trading company share disposal. Must’ve been held for 3 years.
Cannot be connected with company.
Gift-Holdover relief?
Defers CGT liability on to receiver of gift of Business Assets or Shares.
No CGT payable, unless, sell for less than worth or make a gain on what you paid for it.
What’s needed for Gift-Holdover of:
Business Assets?
Shares?
Sole Trader/Partner/>5% Voting Rights + Use assets in business
Not listed + Not personal company
Mechanics of holdover relief?
No CGT payable.
Donee’s acquisition cost is reduced by held-over gain –> On subsequent disposal; gain is much larger.
If receive held-over gift and leave UK?
Gain crystallises if donee ceases to be resident within 6 years
What is an EMI?
Enterprise Management initiative: <£30m + <250 FTE employees.
Trading companies giving significant tax advantages to retain staff.
How are EMIs tax advantaged?
Tax only incurred on award of schemes, NOT when exercised.
- No income tax on Exercising
- If held for 2yrs: CGT at 10%
For examples:
https://accountancycloud.com/blogs/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-emi-scheme
Is gift-holdover relief available for transfers to trust?
No
Business Asset Rollover relief?
How much?
‘Deferral of CGT’ when trading-purposed assets sold, and, new assets bought 1yr pre-3yrs post sale. Up to lower of gain or amount reinvested
Incorporation relief?
Mechanics?
When unincorporated business transferred to a limited company in exchange for new shares in that company.
Gain deducted from issue price of shares
EIS Shares reinvestment?
Relief if gain invested in to EIS shares bought 1yr pre-3yrs post sale.
- Defers gain until EIS share disposal
- Original gain then taxable, EIS gain usually exempt
- Could get 10%, 18%, 20%, 28% CGT relief, as well as 30% IT relief
SEIS reinvestment?
Reinvested gains NOT deferred, but 50% reinvested gains are exempt. Other 50% chargeable to CGT.
Limited to £100k reinvested/yr.
Share acquisitions?
- Cannot re-buy within 30 days (B&B)
- Bonus/Scrip: Rx as acquired on original holding
- Rights Issue: Cost added to share pool
- Scrip dividends: Rx as new acquisitions
What is
- Bonus/Scrip issue?
- Rights?
- Scrip Dividend?
Bonus shares given
Rights: right to buy more.
Scrip Dividend is dividend received as shares