21 April: In week 5 of the UK lockdown, here is our update on the Government’s guidance on how Furloughing under the Job Retention Scheme will work: A few highlights: The Scheme has now been extended to 30 June from the original date of 31 May Minimum furlough period – 3 weeks Claim to be… Read More
16 April: It seems the vast majority of businesses are having to furlough at least some of their employees and all of them are waiting for HMRC’s new portal to open on 20 April. Statistics It is estimated that there are more than 30 million workers in the UK, of which about 25 million are… Read More
Friday 27 March: Last night the chancellor announced further assistance in the form of a taxable grant called The Coronavirus Self-Employment Income Support Scheme HMRC will use existing information to identify those eligible and will invite applications for the scheme. In this application you will be required to demonstrate that you meet the eligibility requirements. The… Read More
Small companies pay their corporation tax nine months and one day after the accounting year end. However, companies that are classified as ‘large’ or ‘very large’ are required to make quarterly corporation tax instalment payments. These instalments must be based on an estimate of the tax that will be due, and interest will be charged… Read More
Property owners with taxable gains on their residential properties need to be aware of the changes to how the tax is paid and changes to valuable exemptions. Under the current system, these gains would be reported in the self assessment tax return and the tax is payable on 31st January after the tax year in… Read More
Our experience shows that many of the tax investigations we handle are VAT investigations. This can be a very stressful time for the client and such investigations can be time consuming and lengthy in process. Such investigations can take anywhere in the region of three months to eighteen months to reach a conclusion depending on… Read More
In the morning session of the AGN International conference in Malaga on 27th September 2019 we had to opportunity to learn more about tax issues in relation to cross-border employment. This was an excellent chance to work in groups on case studies to highlight the fundamental income tax and social security principles. These particular issues… Read More
All is not lost if you forgot to sign up by 31 July. If you did try to register by the 14th of August you will have received the following message from HMRC: “You must come back later to sign up. We’re unable to sign you up for Making Tax Digital for VAT at present. This… Read More
The Governments’ ambitious programme, Making Tax Digital (MTD), is an initiative to implement fundamental changes to the way the tax system works by becoming one of the most digitally advanced tax administrations in the world. The original plans were to introduce a digital tax system that would require most businesses, self-employed people and landlords to… Read More
Changes are being introduced from April 2020 to off payroll workers in the private sector, relating to engagements with large and medium sized companies where a contractor provides services through a personal service company. The decision whether to apply the rules falls with the engager as it does already for contracts with the public sector…. Read More
