INDEPENDENT CAPITAL ALLOWANCES SPECIALISTS

Capital Allowances Hidden Gems within Hotels

By : August 26, 2015 Comments Off on Capital Allowances Hidden Gems within Hotels

Introduction

Hotels are abundant in qualifying items of plant and machinery (P&M) and repairs. In the vast majority of cases, the total allowances are not fully identified by either the in house accountants or external advisors.

Why does this happen?

Hotels, in comparison to other commercial properties, have specific trade related plant that are not easily identifiable to […]

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Helpful Tips for Claiming Capital Allowances in Tax Returns

By : August 25, 2015 Comments Off on Helpful Tips for Claiming Capital Allowances in Tax Returns

HMRC have recently updated their “Capital Allowances for Plant and Machinery Toolkit”.  This provides a helpful guide for completing the capital allowances section in self assessment and company tax returns.

Capital Allowances toolkit

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Why Do I Need A Capital Allowances Specialist?

By : August 14, 2015 Comments Off on Why Do I Need A Capital Allowances Specialist?

Clients generally assume that their accountant or tax advisor deals with capital allowances. In fact some clients will ask their accountant if they claim allowances and they will respond that they claim all available allowances. However, as explained below, this can be misleading and they are doing their clients a disservice by not referring them to […]

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Land Remediation Relief & Capital Allowances Q&A

By : August 5, 2015 Comments Off on Land Remediation Relief & Capital Allowances Q&A

What is contaminated land?

For the purposes of this tax relief it is where the land contains substances such as asbestos, Japanese Knotweed or sulphate resistant concrete which are causing harm or could possible cause harm, pollute or possibly pollute controlled waters.

Is there a definition of contaminated land costs?

There is a general definition which is that […]

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