Capital Gains Tax · South East London
Capital gains tax returns in Woolwich
Capital Gains Tax computations and returns for people in Woolwich selling property, shares, funds or a business. A share disposal report is £149; the 60-day UK property return is £199; multiple disposals in a year are £249. Fixed fees, published, and the same in Woolwich as everywhere in England.
from £149 · fixed, per report
Next deadlines
- UK residential property disposals: CGT return and payment within 60 days of completion
- UK residential property disposals: CGT return and payment within 60 days of completion
- Online Self Assessment filing deadline and balancing payment due
- UK residential property disposals: CGT return and payment within 60 days of completion
Who this is for
Capital Gains Tax for Woolwich
Individuals and trustees in Woolwich disposing of assets: landlords selling a rental or a former home, investors selling shares or funds outside an ISA, employees exercising options or selling scheme shares, business owners selling a company or its assets, people gifting assets to family, and executors dealing with disposals during an estate administration.
What is included
Everything inside the fixed fee
- Gain computed for each disposal with acquisition cost, enhancement expenditure and incidental costs allowed in full
- 60-day UK residential property return filed through HMRC's online service with the tax paid on account
- Private residence relief, lettings relief and periods of absence calculated for homes that were once let or vacant
- Share and fund disposals matched under the same-day, 30-day and section 104 pooling rules
- Business asset disposal relief, investors' relief, gift relief and rollover relief claimed where available
- Losses identified and claimed, annual exempt amount and rate bands applied, Self Assessment pages completed
How it works
Capital Gains Tax from Woolwich, step by step
Tell us your situation
A short message or call about what you do and what needs filing. We ask the questions that determine the right package and nothing more.
Fixed fee in writing
You receive one price for the work, confirmed by email before anything starts. It does not change if the job takes longer than we expected.
Send records, review the draft
Records come by WhatsApp or email. We prepare the draft, explain the figures in plain English and answer your questions.
We file, you get the receipts
Once you approve and the fee is settled, we submit electronically and forward the HMRC or Companies House acknowledgement the same day.
Why IGI
The IGI way of working, in Woolwich
No hourly rate and no surprise invoice. Woolwich clients know the fee for capital gains tax before they send a single document, and it stays fixed.
We work to the HMRC and Companies House calendar, not an appointment diary. Clients in Woolwich get reminders at 60, 30 and 7 days before each date that applies to capital gains tax.
Online only, UK based. There is no office in Woolwich to pay for, which is why the fee is the same here as anywhere in England; the work is done by people in the UK who answer the same day.
Continuity matters in capital gains tax: the person who prepared last year's work for your Woolwich business prepares this year's, and remembers what was agreed.
Plain English, with the numbers. Every draft for Woolwich comes with a short explanation of what the figures mean and what, if anything, you should do about them.
You stay in control of capital gains tax: drafts go to Woolwich clients first, with the figures explained, and nothing leaves us until you say so.
Local facts
About Woolwich
Woolwich is in South East London, within Greenwich, in the SE18 postcode district, England. Income tax in England follows the UK rates: 20% basic to £50,270, 40% higher to £125,140 and 45% additional, with the personal allowance of £12,570 tapered away above £100,000. National Insurance, VAT and Corporation Tax are UK-wide, and Stamp Duty Land Tax applies to property purchases.
| Place | Distance | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Woolwich Common | 0.5 mi | SW |
| Woolwich Arsenal | 0.6 mi | NE |
| Woolwich Riverside | 0.8 mi | NW |
| Royal Arsenal West | 0.9 mi | NE |
| Woolwich Dockyard | 0.9 mi | NW |
| Royal Arsenal Riverside | 0.9 mi | NE |
| Glyndon | 0.9 mi | NE |
| Shooters Hill | 0.9 mi | S |
Worth knowing
Rules that come up in this work
Dormant companies
A dormant company is one with no significant accounting transactions in the year, where the only permitted entries are the payment for shares on incorporation, Companies House fees and penalties. It still files a confirmation statement and simplified dormant accounts every year. A bank charge or an accountant's fee paid from the company ends dormancy and requires full accounts.
The trading and property allowances
Not every small income needs a tax return. The trading allowance exempts the first £1,000 of self-employment or casual income and the property allowance does the same for rental income, each measured on gross receipts. They cannot be combined with rent-a-room relief on the same income, and claiming the allowance means giving up the expense deduction for that source.
Employer National Insurance
The cost of an employee is more than the salary. Employer National Insurance at 15% above £5,000 a year, the 3% minimum pension contribution, holiday pay, equipment and management time all come on top. The Employment Allowance of £10,500 reduces the National Insurance for most employers with more than one person on the payroll.
Workplace pensions and auto-enrolment
Auto-enrolment duties begin the day you take on your first employee, not when the Pensions Regulator writes to you. Eligible staff must be enrolled, contributions paid every pay period and re-enrolment carried out every three years. Director-only companies without employment contracts are usually exempt. Fines for non-compliance are fixed and escalating.
Record keeping
HMRC requires records of all income and expenses, bank statements, invoices and receipts to be kept for at least five years after the 31 January filing deadline of the tax year they relate to, and companies must keep records for six years from the end of the accounting period. Digital copies are acceptable. Under Making Tax Digital the records must be kept in compatible software.
Allowable expenses
The expenses sole traders most often miss are home working costs, claimed by actual proportion or HMRC's flat rate, the business share of phone and internet, mileage at 45p for the first 10,000 business miles, and training that maintains existing skills. The ones most often claimed wrongly are commuting, entertaining customers and clothes that could be worn outside work.
Crypto records and reporting
HMRC treats cryptoassets as property. Swapping one token for another, spending crypto or gifting it are all disposals for Capital Gains Tax, and staking and lending rewards are income. Gains are computed under pooling rules with same-day and 30-day matching. From 2026 HMRC receives data from exchanges worldwide under the Cryptoasset Reporting Framework, so unreported activity is increasingly visible.
Questions
Capital Gains Tax questions from Woolwich
I am not UK resident but sold a UK property. Do I need to report?
Yes. Non-residents must report all UK land and property disposals within 60 days, whether or not tax is due, and residential property gains are generally rebased to April 2015 values. The rules differ from those for residents and the penalties for not reporting are the same. We handle non-resident returns regularly.
I am an executor. Do I report gains for the estate?
Yes. During the administration period the estate is a separate taxpayer with its own annual exemption and pays CGT at 24% on gains above probate value. Residential property sales by the estate are subject to the 60-day rule. We prepare the estate computations and the trust and estate return pages.
Do transfers between spouses trigger tax?
No. Transfers between spouses or civil partners living together are at no gain and no loss; the recipient takes over the original cost. This allows both annual exemptions and both basic rate bands to be used on a later sale, which is a common and legitimate way to reduce the tax on a jointly planned disposal.
What if I sell shares from an employee share scheme?
It depends on the scheme. Shares from a SAYE or SIP scheme have specific cost rules and sometimes income tax has already been paid on part of the value. Options exercised and sold on the same day may have no gain at all. We need the scheme documents and the exercise and sale figures, and we apply the correct treatment for each.
How do you work out gains on shares bought at different times?
Disposals are matched first to shares bought the same day, then to shares bought in the following 30 days, then to the section 104 pool, which holds all other shares of that class at their average cost. The same rules apply to funds and to crypto. We run the matching across your full history.
Can I use losses from previous years?
Yes, if they were claimed on a return within four years of the tax year in which they arose. Current-year losses are set against current-year gains first, even if that wastes the annual exemption; brought-forward losses are only used to the extent needed to bring gains down to the exemption. We check for unclaimed historical losses as standard.
Which deadlines matter most for capital gains tax?
The next four dates that apply to capital gains tax are shown at the top of this page, calculated from today. For Woolwich clients we diarise every one of them from the day you join and send reminders before each, so the work is done in good time rather than in the last week before a penalty.
How do I get started from Woolwich?
Message us on WhatsApp or email with a sentence about your business and what you need. We reply in working hours with any questions and a fixed fee for capital gains tax. Once you confirm, we tell you exactly which records to send and the work begins. Most Woolwich clients are set up within a day.
Let us take the deadlines off your plate in Woolwich
Tell us what you need. You get one fixed fee in writing, and nothing is filed until you approve it.