Introduction to Tax for Housing Associations 2023

This comprehensive expanded course has been designed to meet your needs, whether you are starting out or looking to refresh existing knowledge. We cover not only how VAT affects the key activities of associations, but also an overview of corporation tax, stamp duty land tax (SDLT) and employment taxes.

The course will run over four 90-minute Friday morning sessions in September, you can choose how many sessions you wish to attend. We are also pleased to offer a discount for multiple staff bookings should this be of interest to your colleagues.

What we will cover

Session 1: Housing association activities 

• How do the various taxes affect housing providers?
• What are the VAT treatments of various sorts of income and expenditure?
• Corporation tax treatment of trading and investment income.
  

Speakers: Olivia Larson and Alex Shear

Session 2: VAT recovery

• When can VAT be recovered on costs?
• Partial exemption
• Preparing VAT returns.

Speakers: Olivia Larson and Louis Finn

Session 3: Buying land

• SDLT charges and reliefs on buying land
• When will the vendor seek to charge VAT
• Golden brick, disapplication and other strategies.
  

Speakers: Adam Cutler and Robert Sherwood

Session 4: Developing land

• VAT on construction and conversion works
• Design-and-build
• Construction Industry Scheme
• VAT and Corporation Tax treatment of different uses

Speakers: Adam Cutler and Olivia Larson

Dates and Timings

Each session will run from 9:30 to 11:00, with time for questions afterwards.

Session 1: Friday 8 September
Session 2: Friday 15 September
Session 3: Friday 22 September
Session 4: Friday 29 September

Cost

£110 + VAT per session or £380 + VAT for all four sessions.

We offer a 20% reduction for each subsequent delegate from the same organisation.

Virtual event – you will receive log in details upon registration.

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