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			<title>Deferring your state pension will lose your income tax exemption</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Earlier in the year, the then Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, promised that pensioners who rely solely on the state pension will not pay income tax, but this exemption will not apply to those who defer their state pension.... ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>HMRC reviewing over 100,000 tax calculations due to system error</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ HMRC is manually reviewing 107,000 tax calculations from the 2025-26 tax year after taxpayers complained that they had been overcharged. The underlying fault has existed for years - first acknowledged in 2021 - and still hasn't been fixed.... ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>New scheme for those with Loan Charge liabilities</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ HMRC is writing to households with outstanding Loan Charge debts, offering a new Settlement Scheme that can cut liabilities by up to £70k. The scheme aims to reduce most customers' bills, and around one?third may end up paying nothing at all.... ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Family heirlooms could reduce your inheritance tax liability</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Certain family heirlooms, artworks, manuscripts, collections, land, or historic estates can significantly reduce - or even eliminate - inheritance tax (IHT) if they qualify as items of national importance and are kept under specific HMRC schemes.... ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>October Questions and Answers</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Q:  I'm in a marriage where one of us is not earning and one still is. If we move money between our personal savings accounts, who is treated as earning the interest income to work out the tax?
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			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>October Key Dates</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ 1st: Corporation Tax payments are due for companies with a year-end of 31st December.... ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Could you be hit with an inheritance tax bill long after an estate is settled?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Experts have highlighted several practical and policy concerns about the Government's planned inheritance tax (IHT) changes for pensions, set to take effect from April next year.... ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Preparing for the Autumn Budget</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ The new Chancellor of The Exchequer, John Healey, has announced that he will deliver his first Budget on 28 October. ... ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Inheritance tax case lost by HMRC; more families could benefit</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ HMRC lost a major inheritance tax case, potentially affecting thousands of families who used historic home-loan inheritance planning schemes... ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>HMRC issues a new scam warning as reports rise</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ HMRC is alerting taxpayers to a rise in fraudulent messages impersonating the tax authority. It says it is receiving increased reports of scam emails claiming people... ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>September Questions and Answers</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Q:  I have three pension pots (each over &pound;50k) that I will be able to take my 25% lump sums from soon. Is there a most tax efficient way to do this?... ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>September Key Dates</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ 1st: Corporation Tax payments are due for companies with a year-end of 30th November.... ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>ISA Reforms on the way</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ The government is consulting on a new ISA to replace the Lifetime ISA (LISA). It will be available to anyone aged 18+, removing the LISA's upper age limit of 40. This reflects the rising ages of first-time buyers.... ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>State pensioners receiving new 'earnings limit' tax codes</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ HMRC is sending updated tax codes to state pensioners who exceeded the earnings limit for the Winter Fuel Payment. These letters began going out in June.... ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Retirees reclaiming larger pension tax refunds</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ New HMRC figures show large refunds reclaimed in early 2026. Thousands of retirees reclaimed money after being overtaxed on flexible pension withdrawals.... ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Making Tax Digital (MTD) uptake is far behind requirements</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Fewer than half of sole traders required to join MTD have registered. Only 400,000 sign-ups have occurred since the start of the financial year... ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>August Questions and Answers</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Q: I've heard that making charitable donations can increase my tax-free Personal Allowance. How does this work, exactly?
... ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>August Key Dates</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ 1st: Corporation Tax payments are due for companies with a year-end of 31st October.
... ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>HMRC Inheritance Tax Enquiries Hit Six-Year High</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ HMRC opened 4,940 formal inheritance tax (IHT) enquiries in the last financial year - an 18% increase year-on-year. ... ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Summer attractions see VAT reduced to 5%</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ As part of the government's "Great British Summer Savings" package, aimed at helping families during rising costs linked to the Iran war, Rachel Reeves announced a VAT cut to 5% on tickets (for adults and children) for theme parks, zoos and museums. ... ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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