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Published / Last Updated on 07/10/2025

Capital Gains Tax Explained

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Capital Gains Tax and Share Price Matching

Capital Gains Tax and Share Price Matching

When you buy and sell assets such as shares and investment property, when you come to sell those assets at a profit, the gain, after any unused capital gains ...

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Capital Gains Tax on Cryptocurrency and Cryptoassets

Capital Gains Tax on Cryptocurrency and Cryptoassets

UK capital gains tax (CGT) on cryptocurrency and cryptoassets is different to CGT on property and other assets when you sell, gift or dispose of them. See The Start and ...

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What Assets and Wealth Do You Pay Capital Gains Tax On?

What Assets and Wealth Do You Pay Capital Gains Tax On?

Not A Sales Tax Capital Gains Tax (CGT) is payable when you sell or dispose of an asset for money or money’s worth and have made a gain/profit. This means ...

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Budget 2025 and Learning from the History of Capital Gains Tax

Budget 2025 and Learning from the History of Capital Gains Tax

The cost of World War II on the UK government is estimated to be £1.6 to £3.7 trillion in today’s terms. More recently the cost of the Covid-19 pandemic ...

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Capital Gains Tax Exemption Periods on Property Sales

Capital Gains Tax Exemption Periods on Property Sales

Many of us are aware that when you sell your main dwelling home it is free of capital gains tax provided you have not rented it out or lived ...

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Capital Gains Tax on Divorce, Dissolution or Separation

Capital Gains Tax on Divorce, Dissolution or Separation

For this article, “divorce” is used as the term for legally ending a marriage or the dissolution of a civil partnership. Separation means you are no longer living together ...

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Capital Gains Tax on Compulsory Purchase Order Property

Capital Gains Tax on Compulsory Purchase Order Property

It is not very often we are left ‘stumped’ but a recent discussion with a client did exactly that. The client owns an investment property that is now the subject ...

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Capital Gains Tax on Land and Farmland

Capital Gains Tax on Land and Farmland

Residential property and land gains are taxed at the lower rate of 18% within basic rate tax band and the higher rate of 28% in the higher rate tax ...

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Capital Gains Tax Returns UK Property v Overseas Property

Capital Gains Tax Returns UK Property v Overseas Property

It used to be that all capital gains taxes on investment property was included and reported in your main self assessment return. In April 2020, HMRC introduced the requirement that ...

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Temporary Non Residence and Capital Gains Tax

Temporary Non Residence and Capital Gains Tax

HMRC has recently updated its practice notes and guidance on UK temporary non-residence and capital gains tax. If you are tax resident and domiciled in the UK you are ...

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Calculate Capital Gains Tax on Residential Property

Calculate Capital Gains Tax on Residential Property

If you have always lived in your home as a private residence and not let any part or all of your home out, you receive 100% Private Residence Relief ...

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UK Property Account for Capital Gains Tax Return

UK Property Account for Capital Gains Tax Return

Since April 2020 the disposal of a UK residential property (not usually your main residential home) i.e. it has been an investment property at some point and has capital ...

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Use Pension Tax Relief To Offset Capital Gains Tax

Use Pension Tax Relief To Offset Capital Gains Tax

Pension Payments to Offset Capital Gains Tax We are seeing much speculation about the Chancellor’s March 2021 Budget. Many are expecting changes to Capital Gains Tax with a move to ...

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CGT Rises on Property Means Government Expects Huge Price Rises

CGT Rises on Property Means Government Expects Huge Price Rises

Last week the Office for Tax Simplification (OTS) published its report for the government having been instructed to review the efficiency of Capital Gains Tax (CGT) and whether there ...

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Save Capital Gains Tax and Switch to Insurance Investment Bonds

Save Capital Gains Tax and Switch to Insurance Investment Bonds

With speculation mounting after the Office for Tax Simplification (OTS) report last week that capital gains tax (CGT) rates should be increased to income tax rates and where CGT ...

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