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Income tax relief cap: who will be affected?

Thursday, August 16, 2012 | Posted by: Francesca Lagerberg
Categories: Personal | Tags: Francesca Lagerberg, income tax, tax relief, Budget 2012, donations, budget2012, cap, income tax relief cap, income tax liability, tax losses, cap on reliefs, business losses, loss

The charitable sector has been successful in its campaign to keep unlimited tax relief for charitable giving. So, who will be affected by the proposed income tax relief cap? Following the release of the consultation document, it has become clear that the cap won’t just affect wealthy individuals but may be unfavourable for small-business owners, too.

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Income tax relief cap will cut incentive to give to charity

Tuesday, April 24, 2012 | Posted by: Chris Tysoe
Categories: Personal, Protecting your wealth | Tags: tax planning, income tax, budget, charity, tax relief, philanthropy, Budget 2012, donations, Chris Tysoe, mansion tax, cap, income tax relief cap, income tax liability, restricting, tycoon tax, minimising

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Organising your tax affairs in order to reduce your income tax liability may soon be curbed, in line with Government proposals to restrict income tax relief. But the proposed ‘tycoon tax’ is also causing a great deal of friction, as generous charitable donations by wealthy philanthropists look set to fall out of favour for tax planning (see Update on this at the end of the post). And they’re not the only ones adversely affected…

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