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Tax

Harry Redknapp and the dog walk free from tax case

Harry Redknapp and Milan Mandaric have walked free after a jury found them not guilty of tax evasion (posh term ‘cheating the public revenue’). My national BBC interview about the fall-out from the case is at www.YouTube.com/HustonTV

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Inside Tax

Ed Lester and the Student Loan Company tax scandal

Friday, 3 February 2012

My latest video is about the story broken by the BBC that Ed Lester (Chief Executive of the Student Loans Company) is not taxed the way a Chief Executive should be. Video is at www.Youtube.com/HustonTV .
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Tax Return penalties �10 per day from 1 February 2012

Tuesday, 31 January 2012

Stop press – HMRC staff’s industrial action will do nothing to save money for people filing a paper Tax Return on 1 or 2 February 2012.
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Redknapp & the tax-fiddling dog

Wednesday, 25 January 2012

In my YouTube video (Tax Evasion for Pets) Kim the tax fiddling collie opens her own bank account…
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Tax Help joins the YouTube age

Friday, 20 January 2012

I write this as my YouTube channel marks an important milestone. Videos on it, offering free tax advice, have now been viewed a total of 10,000 times.
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Tony Blair’s Mystery tax bill

Tuesday, 10 January 2012

The Daily Mail reports that former Prime Minister Tony Blair's earnings have soared by 42% to £12 million. Despite this the tax bill was only £315,000.
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Capital Gains – filling in the form

Tuesday, 10 January 2012

Writing this in early January I know many people have put off filing their tax returns because they had capital gains.
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Christmas holiday tax check-list

Thursday, 22 December 2011

When the dust settles once Christmas Day is over, lots of people have time on their hands and many use it to deal with tax issues which have been pushed to the side all year. What should be their priorities?
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Tax-man targets eBay, tutors, coaches and electricians...

Tuesday, 29 November 2011

Nobody likes paying tax – but it’s just part of being a proper member of a civilised society. What many people dislike, though, is that we all have to pay more tax because some people don’t pay what they should.
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Halloween nightmare for tax returns

Tuesday, 25 October 2011

31 October marks the last day on which you can file, using paper, your 2010/11 Tax Return. File it on paper after that date and you will be fined.
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Married tax allowances to return?

Tuesday, 18 October 2011

David Cameron’s speech to Conservative Conference on 5 October suggested we are to see marriage and tax linked once more. What might this mean, and how will it affect gay couples?
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HMRC targets your friends with offshore money

Tuesday, 7 June 2011

HMRC now tells us it has details of 500,000 people in the UK who have money stashed abroad. Much of it is being hidden from the tax-man and therefore is a ticking time-bomb.
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Who gets those darned Self Assessment Tax Returns?

Tuesday, 17 May 2011

At its simplest there are two sets of people who have to submit a Self Assessment tax return to HMRC:
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Tax allowance to rise

Wednesday, 23 March 2011

The income people can earn without paying tax will increase to more than £8,000 next year, George Osborne will announce in his second Budget.
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Plumbers given time to confess

Monday, 14 March 2011

Ever heard of a plumber who wanted paid in cash? Often a sign of income which won’t be declared. So has the tax-man. And he’s about to come knocking.
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Tax clampdown on plumbers and gas fitters in Northern Ireland

Tuesday, 1 March 2011

Plumbers, gas fitters and heating engineers in Northern Ireland are being targeted by the tax authorities in a clampdown on trades people failing to declare their earnings and pay tax.
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