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  • Company Shareholders - How to Use Rights Issues and Bonus Issues of Shares

    Private companies invariably start their lives with a nominal number of shares of a nominal value. This enables the company to start trading, but as the company evolves that number may need to be increased for a variety of reasons...
  • Could your Company be Claiming Research & Development Tax Relief?

    My firm recently took on a new client in the engineering industry, and I was brought in to discuss possible tax planning ideas with them. When I mentioned ‘R&D’ (Research and Development), the engineering director said they didn’t do much R&D – he described his company’s work as ‘solving practical problems’. To cut a long story short, after much discussion we are now working on a claim for R&D tax relief that we expect to reach well over £200,000, giving a tax repayment of at least £50,000 to a company that were convinced they did not do any R&D...
  • Shareholder Exit Strategies - Company Purchase of Own Shares v MBO

    Where a private company shareholder wishes to exit as a shareholder (and usually also as a director/employee) the first notion which usually springs to mind is for the company to purchase the shares, which the Companies Act 2006 permits provided that certain conditions are met and procedures followed...
  • How to Obtain a VAT Clearance from HMRC

    A business can telephone the National Advisory Service on 0845 010 9000 to ask for information and guidance from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). That is useful for simple matters such as checking a VAT number quoted (incidentally, always state the name and address of the other business as well as the number because the full details can then be confirmed)...
  • Tax Insider: Tax Tips
  • Tax Insider: Your Property Tax Questions Answered by Arthur Weller
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Do We Have to Pay Both Class 2 and Class 4 Insurance Contributions?

We are a partnership and our main business is rental income.  Do we have to pay Class 2 Insurance contribution being self-employed and class 4 Insurance contributions on the rental income profit?  
  
Arthur Weller Replies:
This is a quotation from Tolley’s:
“Property letting will rarely be regarded as self-employment for national insurance purposes, although if the extent of the landlord’s involvement in managing the lettings and looking after the properties is substantial (which might be particularly relevant for furnished holiday lettings), it is possible that the activities will constitute a business, in which case Class 2 national insurance contributions will be payable. Class 4 contributions are only payable where income is taxed as trading income. Even though rents are now treated as being from a business in calculating property income, this is not the same as saying that a business actually exists, and it does not alter the national insurance position.”
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