Is it worth suspending dividends for a year to minimise CGT-related tax?

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Newquay's not even that nice. And I doubt SDLT has much bearing as it only applies to residences IIRC

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Nope, never.


Just to clarify are you saying CG comes before normal income or after or does it make no difference?

Thanks....

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So not the battery's fault after all?

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They add a lot of chemical stabilisers and fermentation inhibitors to wine for this reason (among others), also to most beer that is force-carbonated. Back sweetening is pretty common in some products, cider being a good example - the natural state of cider is to be very dry and very strong....

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People call it cooking wine for a reason

What about Buckfast, isn't that sweetened?...

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It looks likely we'll be selling a rental property this tax year and while we've bought and sold quite a few properties, this is the first time we are selling a house we don't live in - hence first exposure to CGT.
My wife and I co-own the property and both of us have managed to avoid being higher-rate...

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I thought Google, along with Facebook, had said last year that employees would be allowed to work from home indefinitely

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Nope.

THere is a minimum cost to produce a bottle of wine though. Duty, the cost of a bottle is 50p-£1 based on looking at bulk pricing in the past.
As you get down to the £5 mark, it is amazing anyone bothers to make it....

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In the USA the same DeWalt 18V stuff is sold as 20V, as far as I can make out. Can't imagine those identical looking batteries are different under the surface. Similar the FlexVolt is 60V not 54V.

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fair enough as long as it's known... must have missed it!...

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Science is what you do with the mathematical/statistical underpinning....

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I did also by some Stihl battery kit for outdoor work, but we're talking pro tools there. DeWalt offers some outdoor tools but they're not in the same league IMO.

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I've gone DeWalt because I'd rather have decent tools and they get used a fair bit, and I can afford it.

Ryobi are very widely known and have a pretty decent rep to be honest. I am considering getting some, where Dewalt don't offer something comparable. You can get an adapter to use Dewalt...

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Is anyone else having issues with multiquote? I seem to find it only includes one quoted post, sometimes none. Modern forums often let you explicitly pick the multi-quotes for inclusion so I'm not sure if that functionality is present and I cannot find it, or it's buggy.

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I know if you have an AST you have to keep the tenant, I couldn't recall if a rolling tenancy allowed transfer or a new contract must be signed....

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As risk of the vaccine approaches risk without the vaccine, vaccine becomes more contentious. Pretty basic science....

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Holiday lets are a fortune (I think we were estimated a grand a week for a small flat) BUT a lot of expense to run if you're not local. We looked into this and after cleaning and management I think the revenue wasn't much more than BTL, and someone else takes half the dosh. Some of them even charge...

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I did too although not by dint of actually doing anything, my portfolio just happened to be very solid I guess. I remember being worried at the start of all this and it had dropped a bit, but IIRC up about 30-35% on the year. Seeing it gain an extra digit was nice.

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Yeah in the grand scheme of things conveyancing can be done quite cheaply and IIRC selling costs less than buying anyway(?) so it might be .25% of the property value which isn't worth the hassle.

On valuation yes that will be interesting. I can have a pretty good idea on the open market...

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We bought a flat in a converted house in Cornwall about 4 years ago as a holiday let-cum-holiday home but it's ended up as a regular BTL and realistically it's very far away as a plain investment.

There's 4 flats and at the time there were 4 different owners, however the owner of one flat...