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Get help with savings if you're on a low income (Help to Save) - how it works, what you'll get, eligibility, how it affects your benefits and how to apply online.
Help to Save is a type of savings account. It allows certain people…
You can earn 2 tax-free bonuses over 4 years. You’ll get any bonuses…
You can open a Help to Save account if you’re receiving: Working Tax…
Saving money though a Help to Save account could affect your eligibility…
You need a Government Gateway user ID and password to set up a Help to…
Tax advantages on employee share schemes including Share Incentive Plans, Save As You Earn, Company Share Option Plans and Enterprise Management Incentives
Your employer may offer you company shares as a reward for working for…
This gives you the option to regularly save and buy shares. If you get…
This is a savings-related share scheme where you can buy shares with your…
This gives you the option to buy up to £60,000 worth of shares from 6…
A company can offer you Enterprise Management Incentives (EMIs) if it has…
To be an employee shareholder, you must own shares in your employer’s…
You can transfer up to £20,000 of employee shares into a stocks and shares…
The ‘gain’ is the profit you make when you sell shares that have increased…
Work out how much money you'll get when you retire and plan ahead - State Pension, Pension Credit, National Insurance
A pension is a way to save money for later in your life. You may be able…
You can pay into as many pension schemes as you want. It depends on how…
Workplace pensions and personal or stakeholder pensions are a way of…
The pension you get from the government (‘State Pension’) is based on your…
You might decide that you do not want to stop working when you reach State…
When planning your pension and retirement income you might need help with:…
Types of ISA available, the tax-free ISA allowance, withdrawing money and transferring ISAs
Find out if simplified expenses suits your business. Compare what expenses you can claim using simplified expenses with what you can claim by working out the actual costs.
Find out what records you must keep about trusts for tax purposes, who can access your information, and what to do if your records are lost or destroyed.
Find out about how to register a late Employment Related Securities (ERS) scheme, submit a late Enterprise Management Incentives notification, ERS end of year filing deadline, and updates to the Employee Tax Advantaged Share Scheme User Manual.
Personal pay and tax records you must keep to fill in a Self Assessment tax return: which records to keep, how long to keep records.
Find out about tax reliefs available to individuals who invest in certain companies, social enterprises, or Venture Capital Trusts.
Plan your retirement income - State Pension, improve your pension, pay National Insurance, check your State Pension age
Work out how much annual allowance you get for your pension savings for 2016 to 2017 and each later tax year.
Today the OTS has published a paper exploring ways of simplifying the taxation of individuals' savings income
Income Tax is a tax you pay on your earnings - find out about what it is, how you pay and how to check you're paying the right amount using HMRC's tax calculator.
Find out what income you need to include in your tax credits claim or renewal.
Read the Council Directive 2003/48/EC of 3 June 2003 on taxation of savings income in the form of interest payments.
Find out what to do if an agency or umbrella company offers to reduce your tax liability and increase your take home pay.
Find out about tax avoidance schemes that use remuneration trusts to reduce profits and disguise income.
Records and paperwork you must keep if you're self-employed as a sole trader or partner in a business: income, costs, profit, how long to keep records.
How to minimise your risk, and what to do if there's a terrorist attack.
Use a simpler calculation to work out income tax for your vehicle, home and business premises expenses
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