Given recent tax changes, making the most of the planning opportunities available in the current 2022/23 tax year is, therefore, all the more important. With this in mind, this article outlines a non-exhaustive five point tax year end checklist which should help ensure you don’t miss out.

The Chancellor has announced a balancing act between spending restraint, outright and immediate tax rises, stealth tax measures and fiscal drag. This has allowed him to limit some of the pain and even announce some new spending while ensuring that the tax take, combined with targeted spending cuts, improves the nation's finances over the next six years by a projected £55bn, helping to address that "very big deterioration".

It's all change for the UK agricultural sector, following the post-Brexit removal of valuable grants and subsidies upon which many farming businesses relied.

Many farms and estates contain areas of woodland, but what tax reliefs are available in respect of woodland? Elisabeth Gubb discusses the potential reliefs and the information HMRC is likely to request.