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What Everyone Needs to Know about Tax : An Introduction to the UK Tax System
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2017
- ©2017
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (169 pages)
- ISBNs
- 1119375819, 9781119375784, 1119375827, 9781119375814, 9781119375807, 9781119375821, 1119375800, 1119375789
- OCLC
- ocn975224597, ocn974642007
- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the author -- Introduction -- Why you should read this book -- Income taxes -- Taxes on spending -- And yet more taxes -- Taxes on businesses -- Avoiding taxes -- Chapter 1: Taxes on your income and earnings -- Income tax and national insurance -- National insurance contributions -- Paying tax -- Taxes on high earners -- The Laffer curve -- Sports, prizes and betting -- With betting, the tax inspector always wins -- The poverty trap -- Chapter 2: Taxes on what you spend -- Value added tax -- How VAT works -- Zero rated and exempt from VAT -- Europe, Brexit and VAT -- Customs and excise -- Excise duties -- Fuel duty and green taxes -- Oil and gas extraction -- Green taxes -- Global warming -- Chapter 3: Taxes on what you own -- Capital gains tax -- Paying capital gains tax -- Taxes on homes and property -- Inheritance tax -- Stamp duty land tax -- Council tax -- Buy to let -- The mansion tax and wealth taxes -- Taxes on pensions and saving -- Other ways to save -- How to live comfortably while paying almost no tax at all -- Chapter 4: Taxes on business -- Taxing business -- Tax on the self‐employed and small businesses -- Tax on companies -- Personal service companies -- The tradesman's entrance -- Multinationals and international tax -- Territorial taxes -- Tax havens -- A bit of BEPS -- Where does big business make its profits? -- Tax competition -- Taxing what you can't touch -- Taxes on financial transactions -- Chapter 5: Taxes evaded, avoided and reformed -- Film finance: how governments encourage planning, avoidance and evasion -- Tax evasion -- Tax avoidance and the general anti‐abuse rule -- A changing climate -- Avoiding income tax -- The new fight against aggressive avoidance -- Tax planning -- Tax reform -- 1. Stop cutting income tax and start cutting national insurance
- 2. Start the 45% tax rate at £100,000 instead of £150,000 -- 3. Tax companies according to their accounting profits -- 4. Expand the scope of VAT -- 5. Introduce a minimum income tax rate for the wealthy while abolishing most income tax anti‐avoidance rules and incentives -- Conclusion: the Three Golden Rules of tax -- The First Golden Rule: Lots of small taxes together add up to make big tax bills -- The Second Golden Rule: No matter what name is on the bill, all taxes are ultimately suffered by human beings -- The Third Golden Rule: Taxes are kept as invisible as possible -- Index -- EULA