Taxcafe News

We've just launched a new edition of The Company Tax Changes.

This guide covers the four major tax changes that affect company owners: the increase in corporation tax, the 130% Super Deduction, the generous new loss rules and the increase in income tax on dividends.

Today we're delighted to announce the launch of the Special 20th Anniversary Edition of How to Save Property Tax.

This guide is the tax bible for landlords and other property investors. It covers income tax planning (for example, all the expenses you can claim), capital gains tax planning and stamp duty land tax.

Today we've published the 18th edition of How to Save Inheritance Tax.

The guide is packed full of practical examples and tax planning ideas. Over more than 15 years it has acquired a reputation as the most comprehensive inheritance tax planning book in the UK.

The 2021/22 edition of Salary versus Dividends is out now!

This guide is essential reading for all company owners. It also contains a huge amount of information on alternative profit extraction techniques, e.g. rental income, interest, pension contributions and lots more.

Taxcafe is delighted to announce the launch of a brand new tax guide: The Company Tax Changes

This guide covers the major company tax changes announced in the March 2021 Budget, including the increase in corporation tax.

We have launched a special 200 page guide to help you save tax during the coronavirus crisis: Coronavirus Tax Planning

It covers both simple and more advanced tax planning strategies. Key points are explained with detailed examples. All of the major taxes are covered: income tax, national insurance, capital gains tax, corporation tax and inheritance tax. There's something for everyone.

Taxcafe.co.uk was founded by Nick Braun and Aileen Smith in December 1999. Over the last 20 years the company has grown into one of the best-known tax publishing companies in the UK and has won several business awards.

Taxcafe is best known for publishing plain-English tax guides for people who are not tax professionals, including business owners, landlords and property investors, expatriates and anyone else wanting to pay less tax.

First and foremost we would like to take this opportunity to thank our customers, many of whom refer Taxcafe to their family and friends.

And, of course, we would like to thank our employees and authors for their vital contribution to making Taxcafe a success.

We are delighted to announce the launch of the 2019/20 edition of Pension Magic.

This guide is all about getting additional tax relief on your pension contributions. It explains the arcane pension rules in plain English!

This year's edition also contains two new chapters, one on the lifetime allowance and another which explains how your pension savings can be used to help your business (for example by making a loan to your business).

We have just launched the 2019/20 edition of The Big Landlord Tax Increase.

This guide explains the restriction to tax relief on mortgage interest - arguably the biggest tax change landlords have faced to date.

The guide contains a huge number of tax saving ideas that can be used to beat the tax increase.

Today we have published the latest 2019/20 edition of How to Save Inheritance Tax.

The guide is fully updated and packed to the gunnels with both simple and more sophisticated inheritance tax saving strategies.

The 2019/20 edition of Salary versus Dividends is out now!

This guide is essential reading for all company owners. It also contains a huge amount of information on alternative profit extraction techniques, e.g. rental income, interest, pension contributions and lots more.

We are delighted to announce the launch of the 2018/19 edition of Pension Magic.

This guide shows you how to obtain a lot more tax relief on your pension contributions. It also shows you how to save tax when you starting withdrawing money.

Pensions are probably the very best tax shelter around and, what's more, they have full Government blessing.

But there are many things you can do to turbo charge your returns, including timing your contributions carefully and deciding who in the family should make them.

We are delighted to announce the launch of the 2018/19 edition of The Big Landlord Tax Increase.

This guide tells you EVERYTHING you need to know about the new restriction to tax relief on mortgage interest and finance costs.

Most important of all the guide contains lots of tax planning ideas to protect you from the effects of this extremely unfair tax increase.

We are delighted to announce that the 2018/19 edition of Using a Property Company to Save Tax has just been launched.

The latest edition has been fully updated to cover the recent freezing of indexation relief on company capital gains. The detailed case studies in the guide still indicate tremendous benefits available for property company owners.

We are delighted to announce that the 2018/19 edition of Salary versus Dividends has just been launched.

This is our main tax guide for owner-managed companies and covers all the main profit extraction techniques.

We are delighted to announce that the 2017/18 editions of our three popular Property Tax guides have all be released.

These are: How to Save Property Tax (our main tax guide for landlords), Using a Property Company to Save Tax (tells you everything you need to know about using a company to invest in property) and Landlord Interest (which explains the new rules for mortgage tax relief).

We have just published the 2017/18 edition of Pension Magic.

If you are saving into a pension then this guide is a must read. It shows you how to increase the tax relief on your pension contributions significantly year after year.

We have just published the 2017/18 edition of Tax Planning for Non-Residents & Non Doms.

This guide will show you how to pay less income tax and capital gains tax when you become non-resident and contains full details of the big package of tax changes coming into force in April 2017 for non-domiciled individuals.

We have just published the 2016/17 edition of How to Save Property Tax.

This guide is the tax bible for landlords and other property investors and contains a huge amount of income tax, capital gains tax and stamp duty land tax info.

We have just published the 2016/17 edition of Small Business Tax Saving Tactics.

This guide contains a huge collection of tax saving ideas for sole traders and other self-employed business owners, eg partnerships.

We are currently updating our guides with all the tax changes announced for 2016/17.

Guides that have already been updated include Salary versus Dividends, Landlord Interest, How to Save Inheritance Tax, Keeping it Simple and Pension Magic.

Taxcafe was founded in December 1999.

We are delighted to be celebrating our 15th birthday and would like to say a huge THANK YOU to all our customers who have supported us over the years.

A brand new and completely revised edition of Small Business Tax Saving Tactics has just been published. This guide is a must read if you are self-employed.

It contains over 50 chapters with literally hundreds of tried and tested tax saving tips.

The 2014/15 edition of How to Save Property Tax has just been published and contains all the latest tax changes affecting landlords, property developers and other property owners.

The 2014/15 edition of How to Protect Your Child Benefit is now out. It shows you how to save around £2,000 per year in child benefit (two children).

The guide contains simple tax saving strategies that can be used by salary earners, landlords, company owners and the self-employed. The tax saving ideas contained in the guide will also help you save thousands in income tax and national insurance.

We've just published the 2014/15 edition of Salary vs Dividends This guide will tell you how much salary and/or dividend to extract from your company if you want to pay less income tax and national insurance in 2014/15. In this year's edition we also explain how the new employment allowance affects company owners' own profit extraction decisions.

The guide covers lots of other profit extraction techniques as well, including getting your company to make pension contributions on your behalf, pay you rent and interest and the new rules covering directors loans.

In the March 2014 Budget the Government announced huge changes to the pension withdrawal rules. From April 2015 it will be possible for pension savers to withdraw as much money as they like once they reach pension age. These changes are fully covered in the new edition of Pension Magic

Retirees will be able to save huge amounts of tax by timing their pension withdrawals carefully, taking large amounts out in some tax years and smaller amounts in others. Full details in the guide.

We are delighted to announce the publication of a brand new and completely revised edition of Non-Resident & Offshore Tax Planning

The guide contains full details of the new Statutory Residence Test and explains how non-residents can pay less income tax, capital gains tax and inheritance tax.

There are also several chapters devoted to tax planning for non-domiciled individuals and two chapters on using offshore companies and trusts.

We've just launched the 2014/15 edition of our ever popular tax planning guide: How to Save Inheritance Tax.

There have been major changes to IHT recently. The new edition contains fully updated guidance on the most popular planning techniques.

Taxcafe is delighted to announce the launch of a brand new edition of
Using a Property Company to Save Tax.

A recent tax case means that it could now be possible to transfer many existing property businesses into a company and make enormous tax savings (running into hundreds of thousands of pounds in some cases).

Full details of this and other important changes in the latest edition.

Taxcafe is delighted to announce the launch of a brand new edition of
How to Save Tax 2013/14.

Taxcafe is delighted to announce the launch of How to Protect Your Child Benefit.

We are delighted to congratulate our author Carl Bayley on being appointed Vice Chairman of the Tax Faculty of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.

Congratulations Carl!

Taxcafe is delighted to announce the launch of a new edition of Small Business Tax Saving Tactics.

Taxcafe is delighted to announce the launch of a new edition of Salary vs Dividends.

Taxcafe is delighted to announce the launch of a new edition of How to Avoid Property Tax.

Taxcafe is delighted to announce the launch of Pension Magic.

Taxcafe is delighted to announce the launch of Capital Allowances.

We are delighted to introduce our unique 'Multiple Product Discount' policy.

This means that the more items you buy, the higher the discount you will receive. 2 items get 10% off, 3 items 15%, 4 items 20%, 6 items 30% and 8 items get a huge 40% discount!

These discounts are fully automated in our shopping cart, so its really easy to see just how much you are saving.

Taxcafe.co.uk was founded by Nick Braun and Aileen Smith in December 1999. Over the last 10 years the company has grown into one of the best-known tax publishing companies in the UK and has won a string of business awards.

Taxcafe is best known for publishing plain-English tax guides for “non-accountants”, including business owners, landlords and property investors, expatriates and anyone else wanting to pay less tax.

First and foremost we would like to take this opportunity to thank our customers, many of whom refer Taxcafe to their family and friends.

And, of course, we would like to thank our employees and authors for their vital contribution to making Taxcafe a success.

Taxcafe is delighted to announce the launch of our Furnished Holiday Lets Tax Guide. The tax rules for furnished holiday lets are changing in 2010. This unique guide tells you what you should do NOW to save tax before it is too late.

Click Furnished Holiday Lets Tax Guide to find out more

Taxcafe is delighted to announce the launch of Business Tax Saver, the UK's first plain-English tax saving publication for small and medium businesses.

Click Business Tax Saver to find out more

Taxcafe have teamed up with Paypal to give our customers the ability to purchase their tax guides through Paypal. PayPal is a safe, fast and easy way to pay online.

Master Capital Gains Tax in 2 Hours - This brand new tax saving DVD launches our new line of exciting DVD products. This innovative new tax saving DVD is the most enjoyable and easy way to learn how to pay less capital gains tax on your property investments.

How to Avoid Property Tax - This updated guide explains all relevant tax changes from the October 2007 Pre-Budget Report and March 2007 Budget. How to Avoid Property Tax is completely up-to-date and contains dozens of examples and tax planning tips. More info

From the 21st to the 23rd of September we will be exhibiting at The Property Investor Show, ExCel Centre, London. Why not come along, meet the team and browse our tax advice guides!

Taxcafe is committed to providing you the latest, most up-to-date tax information. This is why our tax guides are updated and improved every year after the Budget.

The 2007 editions of ALL our unique tax guides are now available, click here to view the list.

This brand new guide explains how to double your property investment returns by using a variety of powerful tax shelters. The book tells you everything you need to know about real estate investment trusts (REITs), property pensions (SIPPs) and property ISAs.

All at Taxcafe would like to extend a warm welcome to Εlliott Ηenderson. Elliott is Taxcafe's main customer service representative and is always available during office hours to deal with any queries you may have. He is also involved in the promotion of the website.

Taxcafe would like to give a warm welcome to Νeil Νewman. Νeil is assistant to the Managing Director. He is involved in the promotion of the website as well as being available to answer customer service queries.

How to Profit from Student Property - This brand new book tells you everything you need to know about building a highly profitable student property portfolio.

From the 22nd to the 24th of September we will be exhibiting at The Property Investor Show, ExCel Centre, London. Why not come along, meet the team and browse our tax advice guides!

At Taxcafe we are committed to providing you with only the very latest, most up-to-date tax information. This is why our tax guides are updated and improved every year after the Budget.

The 2006 editions of ALL our unique tax guides are now available, click here to view a list.

The award, sponsored by Rolls Royce, recognises Taxcafe's commitment to customer satisfaction while adopting a professional and proactive approach to overseas business.

Tax Planning for Couples. How married and unmarried couples can save thousands in income tax, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and national insurance using a variety of powerful tax planning techniques.

How to Profit from Off-plan Property.This unique new book tells you everything you need to know about investing in off-plan and new-build property.

We are very pleased to announce that we have just launched our brand new affiliate programme, which offers very generous commissions for selling our award-winning products.

Affiliates are provided with their own customized Tax Bookshop to link to from their own website. They are also provided with various marketing and selling tools to help them promote their Tax Bookshop, and can track sales in real time.

At a recent awards ceremony in Edinburgh, Taxcafe was crowned Overall Winner at the Scottish E-commerce Awards 2005.

The awards, sponsored by the Department of Trade & Industry, recognise those companies which offer the best customer service, offer something unique online and make best use of internet technology.

With over 20,000 customers in over 80 countries the judges were unanimous in their decision to make Taxcafe the overall winner.

We are pleased to announce that Taxcafe is a finalist in the Enterprising Scotland E-business Award 2005, awarded by Scottish Enterprise.

We are extremely proud to announce that Taxcafe has been given the Award for E-business in the Fife Business Awards 2005, awarded by Scottish Enterprise. This award recognises our commitment to implementing E-business technologies to improve customer satisfaction.

Taxcafe.co.uk celebrates its 5th birthday this month! The website was founded in 1999 by myself and Dr Aileen Smith, with the aim of publishing affordable plain English tax information for investors and business owners and also IFAs and accountants.

From humble beginnings Taxcafe has grown to become one of the most popular tax websites in Britain. Our tax guides have been shipped to 71 countries including China, Columbia, the Falkland Islands, Romania, Swaziland and Uzbekistan. And almost 2,000 people have used our popular tax Question & Answer service.

I would like to thank all those who have helped us make the website what it is today, including our fantastic staff, our authors and tax experts, our advisers at Scottish Enterprise and our families for their tremendous encouragement and support. I would also like to thank my mentor, Martin Spring, who introduced me to the exciting world of tax publishing way back in 1989. First and foremost I would like to thank our customers without whom every business is just a pipedream.

You can expect lots of exciting new tax-saving products from Taxcafe next year and I would like to wish you all a peaceful and prosperous 2005.

Nick Braun PhD
co-founder Taxcafe.co.uk

We would like to congratulate Taxcafe team member Laura McDonald, who was presented with the Business Gateway Award for Enterprise at her recent graduation ceremony. Well Done Laura!

We are very pleased to announce the launch of a new guide this month, "Retire Rich with a Property Pension". Written by Taxcafe's own managing director Nick Braun PhD, this guide will tell you everything you need to know about property pensions,including how to buy property at a 40% discount and how you could end with over 70% more property income.
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From the 17th to the 19th of September we will be exhibiting at The Property Investor Show, ExCel Centre, London. Why not come along and meet some of our authors while browsing our tax advice guides!

"How to Avoid Stamp Duty" By Russell Eaton is launched this month. This guide shows you how to significantly reduce or even eliminate your stamp duty bill whether you are a buy-to-let investor or simply looking to buy a new home.

We would like to congratulate our web developers, Aaron and Laura , on their successful completion of their BSc Multimedia Development.

From the 18th to the 20th of June we'll be exhibiting at the Property Investor Show North at the G-Mex Centre in Manchester. We'll also be doing tax seminars at the show and you can meet and chat to our tax experts and browse our tax guides at Stand 25. Hope to see you there!

All at Taxcafe would like to extend a warm welcome to Gordon Graham, our new customer service representative. If you have any enquiries about our products feel free to contact us on (01592) 560081.

We are proud to announce that Taxcafe UK Ltd is a finalist in the Fife Business Awards 2004, awarded by Scottish Enterprise.