http://taxfix.co.uk/blog Helping you get the most Tax Back Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:42:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://taxfix.co.uk/blog/2008/09/18/lehman-brothers-how-to-make-the-most-out-of-redundancy/ 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 ... http://taxfix.co.uk/blog/2008/08/18/3-easy-ways-to-save-tax/ 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 ... http://taxfix.co.uk/blog/2008/07/29/18/ 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 ... http://taxfix.co.uk/blog/2008/07/02/beware-tax-refund-scam/ 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 ... http://taxfix.co.uk/blog/2008/06/20/tax-refund-of-101m-rejected-by-court/ As students have enough to worry about, we are making a regular series of blog posts to help with common student tax issues.  Student Tax Advice: Buying a House The biggest expenses (After alcohol!!) when a child leaves their parents house at the tender age of 18 to goto university is ... http://taxfix.co.uk/blog/2008/06/06/student-tax-advice-buying-a-house/ While searching the blogosphere we found an interesting website about personal finance . The article outlines seven basic tips which should help anyone in these economic turbulent times. If you have any interesting articles that you would like to share with our readers, just drop us an Email and we more ... http://taxfix.co.uk/blog/2008/05/25/7-secrets-to-personal-finance-success/ Following the ongoing debate over non-doms and CGT, the government has been told that it potentially faces a mass exodus of businesses moving to lower tax regimes. Unhappy firms have been waiting eagerly to move, last month Shire announced a move to Ireland, benefiting from the countries corporation tax which ... http://taxfix.co.uk/blog/2008/05/22/tax-row-results-in-max-exodus/ What with the tax year ending/starting, I thought I would share some links from a few personal finance blogs from around the Internet, enjoy! The Simple Dollar lists six things he thinks after filing his taxes. Blueprint for Financial Prosperity lists 50 fun facts about taxes. Boston Gal's Open Wallet has some tax ... http://taxfix.co.uk/blog/2008/04/15/tax-links-from-finance-blogs/ The four biggest tax havens in the world are on course to clash with the European Union. The EU's 27 strong high command of finance and economics minsters are meeting in Brussels to formulate a plan to safe guard billions of Euros which are diverted to Switzerland, Monaco, Lichtenstein and ... http://taxfix.co.uk/blog/2008/03/04/the-european-union-vs-the-super-rich/