News: May 2015 Manifesto tax policies of the main national political parties As it is an election year we thought that in this issue we would outline the tax policies of the main

News: May 2015 Conservative tax policies As announced in the Budget, the Conservative Party promise to increase the tax-free Personal Allowance to £12,500 and the 40p Income Tax threshold to £50,000. The Conservatives

News: May 2015 Labour tax policies Labour will reinstate the 50% tax rate for income in excess of £150,000 to help get the deficit down. They will also abolish the beneficial tax rules

News: May 2015 Lib Dem tax policies The Liberal Democrats aim to rebalance the tax system away from taxing work and towards unearned wealth. Like the Conservatives, they will raise the personal allowance

News: May 2015 UKIP tax policies UKIP plan to save £9 billion a year in direct net contributions to the European Union budget by leaving the EU. That will enable them to raise

News: May 2015 Green party tax policies The most radical tax policies are those proposed by the Green Party, such as increasing the main rate of corporation tax back to 30% and the

  Tax diary: All the main tax events for May / June 2015 Welcome to this month’s Tax Diary, providing you with all the main tax events for the next couple of months

News: April 2015 Personal allowances As already announced the basic personal allowance for 2015/16 will be £10,600. The Budget on 18 March announced that there will be a further above inflation increase to

News: April 2015 Further changes to ISAs The current £15,000 ISA limit is to be increased to £15,240 from 6 April 2015. Remember that the 50% cash ISA restriction was abolished from 1

News: April 2015 New help to buy ISA These new accounts to help first time buyers save for a deposit to buy their first home will be available from Autumn 2015. First time