We received another scam Email in our inbox which I thought we would share with you in case you had received the same one and were wondering if it was genuine. Remember HMRC never contact you by Email to let you know you have a tax refund. If something seems too good to be true it probably is. ——- Перенаправленное сообщение [...]

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Easter is this weekend and we thought it would be interesting to highlight a recent proposal to tax chocolate in the UK. Dr David Walker, who proposed the controversial tax in a similar way to alcohol and cigarettes, has seen his proposal rejected by doctors. Delegates at a British Medical Association (BMA) conference in Clydebank, [...]

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Apologies for the lack of posts. The end of the tax year has once again taken its toll on our time. Tax has been getting a great deal of press coverage recently, as the G20 met in London to discuss how it was going to deal with tax havens amongst other things. Due to the [...]

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Happy New Year. Here’s to 2009 being a better one than 2008.   With the American presidential election happening this week, we thought it apt to highlight a post from Kiplinger The post is quite interesting for both US readers, as it shows a number of tax deductions that they might have overlooked, as well [...]

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Earlier this week the UK government announced plans to change the tax rate for both businesses and higher income earners in an attempt to help the ailing economy. The main revelations form the pre-budget report include:  A New super income tax, of 45%, will be brought in for those earning £150,000 or more, starting from [...]

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I am sure that everyone has read in the press about the failure of one of Americas biggest investment banks, Lehamn brothers. A number of other companies, such as AIG, are in a similar position and could go bankrupt too. If you are one of the employees working for these companies, facing possible redundancy,  you [...]

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With everyone feeling the pinch from higher petrol prices and increased interest rates, now is not the best time for the UK government to increase the basic rate of tax. Since April the basic rate of tax has doubled to 20 pence in the pound. There are however a few ways in which you can [...]

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Things have been hectic and busy here at the Tax Rebate Blog this month, which has not given us as much time as we would have liked to update the blog. There have been a number of interesting posts in the tax world recently. With the up and coming American election I thought it might [...]

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Every few days we make a random check of our Spam Email to make sure nothing has inadvertently been sucked in. Today something caught our eye which we thought we should warn people about. The Email that caught out eye was from HM Revenue and Customs and it pretended to be a notification of a [...]

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Chevron should have come to TaxFix for their tax refund as a federal court disallowed a tax refund request for $101million on Wednesday 18th June. In previous procedings U.S. District Judge Saundra Armstrong of Oakland had allowed the tax refund to much relief of the oil company, however on appeal this was overturned. The case [...]

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