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- Category: Budget Summary
- Category: Business
- Update on the tax status of Double Cab Pick Ups
- Exempt company purchase of own shares
- Company share buy-backs
- Scotland’s non-domestic rates reliefs
- Post-cessation receipts and expenses
- Basis of assessment changing
- Farming – using the herd basis
- Scope of Trade
- Demergers
- Points to consider when valuing goodwill
- Income excluded from a property business
- Business gifts
- Dividend tax increase announced
- Post cessation receipts and payments
- Apportionment and duality
- Cash basis for landlords
- Category: Business Support
- What is a group company structure?
- Tax relief for training costs
- Setting up as a sole trader
- Post Office convictions quashed
- Customs declaration deadline
- New Companies House powers
- Business rates relief in England
- Free management course for SMEs
- COVID Bounce Back abuse
- Settling energy disputes
- What do we mean by profit?
- To register or not to register
- We are unpaid tax collectors
- Time to rethink the credit you offer your customers
- Public sector productivity
- Companies House rolls-out new powers
- Crack down on ‘fire and rehire’ practices
- A new champion for small businesses appointed
- Top-line, bottom-line?
- Importing or exporting for the first time?
- Full-time and part-time contracts
- Changes at Companies House
- Does your business have a March year end date?
- Government steps to secure UK supply chains
- A reminder to protect your business capital
- Be wary of rogue business rates agents
- Season’s greetings and a prosperous 2024
- Investment v costs
- Company accounts filing – don’t be late…
- Focus on bottom line
- What now, following the Autumn Statement
- Enterprise Investment Scheme investee businesses
- Directors’ duties and responsibilities
- £4.5bn for British manufacturing from 2025
- Why breakeven analysis can be illuminating
- Back of an envelope
- Cash flow v supplier credit limits
- New company reporting regulation withdrawn
- Cash flow v customer credit limits
- Repeat business
- Recurring sales
- Government to support action against late payers
- Charity Trustees Quiz
- Help for businesses launching new AI
- Changes afoot at Companies House
- Companies House fees increase?
- Are you a company director?
- The best and worst of British banks
- Landlords’ obligation to repair property
- Who is your ideal customer?
- Amazon offers to change Marketplace rules
- South Yorkshire first UK Investment Zone
- What do we mean by cost of living?
- Ideas for increasing your cash flow
- How copyright protects your work
- Protecting intellectual property
- New powers for charities
- New life sciences growth package announced
- What you can and cannot patent
- Voluntary “give-aways”
- Involuntary “give-aways”
- The importance of being interested
- The winds of change
- More financial support for energy intensive sectors
- Less could be more
- Starting a new business?
- What is profit?
- Cause for optimism?
- Energy Bills Discount Scheme
- Powering Britain from Britain
- Solvency continues to be a pressing issue
- Keep talking
- New UK Data Protection rules
- Why credit control is vital
- Incentive to invest
- Breaking even – checking the numbers
- Business rates list closing soon
- Protecting your business capital
- New business Energy Bills Discount Scheme
- Ways you can count on us…
- New Energy Bills Discount Scheme
- UK regains control over business subsidies
- Which way to turn
- Companies with 31 December year-end date
- Flexible subsidies for businesses from 2023
- Small Business rate relief
- Creditor bankruptcy and liquidation cost changes
- Energy Bill Relief Scheme launched
- Sponsoring a charity
- Using the Annual Investment Allowance
- New grant opportunities for farmers
- Business Start Up Loans
- Director banned for Bounce Back Loan abuse
- Last year to claim super-deduction
- Agent authorisation re SEISS grants
- Exchange of joint interests
- Business tax cuts from April 2022
- Resolving commercial rent debts
- Extended loss relief carry-back
- Check large suppliers payment status
- Government nudges local authorities
- Omicron funding delivered to local authorities
- New £1bn support package announced
- Teesside Freeport open for business
- Reporting COVID support scheme grants to HMRC
- Autumn Budget 2021 – Recovery Loan Scheme
- Autumn Budget 2021 – Creative industry tax reliefs
- Haulage company charged with loan fraud
- Raising capital using the EIS
- Reporting grants received to HMRC
- SEISS claims deadline in a few days
- Outdoor measures to be made permanent
- The Help to Grow Management scheme
- Pub secures reduced tied rent and discounts
- Further change to SEISS 5 legislation
- SEISS – more red tape
- Turnover defined for 5th SEISS grant
- Changes to furlough scheme from 1 July 2021
- Resilience
- Boost to UK tourism
- Temporary trade credit insurance scheme to end
- No time for head in the sand tactics
- Category: Capital allowances
- Invest and save tax
- Full expensing
- Repairs or replacement of business assets
- Current capital allowances for car purchases
- Full expensing started 1 April 2023
- Spring Budget 2023 – Capital allowances
- Super-deductions finish March 2023
- What qualifies for First Year Allowances
- Capital Allowance Pools
- Employer company car considerations
- What is plant and machinery?
- Structures and Buildings Allowance qualifying expenditure
- Autumn Budget 2021 – £1 million Annual Investment Allowance
- 130% tax relief for companies
- Décor and plant and machinery allowances
- Tax when you sell an asset
- Category: Capital Gains Tax
- Connected persons for tax purposes
- Non-resident UK property sales
- CGT Rollover Relief
- Tax when transferring assets during divorce
- Tax-free home sales
- Post Transaction Valuation Checks
- Spring Budget 2024 – CGT on disposals of residential property
- Letting part of your home
- Entitlement to Business asset disposal relief
- Capital sums derived from assets
- Bed and breakfast share sales
- Business Asset Disposal Relief
- CGT exempt allowance halving from April 2024
- CGT – Lettings relief
- Hold-over gifts relief
- Do you need to pay tax when you sell your home?
- Taxable gains on gifts
- Business asset disposals taxed at 10%
- Tax when you sell property
- Share buy-back clearance applications
- Capital Gains Tax and trusts
- When you don’t have to pay Capital Gains Tax
- Connected persons for tax purposes
- Tax on property you inherit
- Working out capital gains
- Selling overseas property
- Capital Gains Tax Gift Hold-Over Relief
- Using Capital Gains Tax losses
- Selling your home – taxes to pay
- Clearance to secure exempt distribution status
- Capital Gains during separation and divorce
- Letting relief
- Tax when you sell property
- Shares and asset valuations for tax purposes
- Reduce CGT by claiming rollover relief
- Tax when you sell shares
- Post valuation transaction checks
- CGT reliefs much reduced from April 2023
- What is a Post Transaction Valuation Check?
- A definition of trusts
- CGT tax-free allowance reducing
- Gifts to spouse or charity
- Private Residence Relief garden and grounds
- Utilising CGT losses prior to death of taxpayer
- Private residence relief
- Incorporation relief
- CGT Rollover Relief
- Definitions of connected persons
- Tax if living abroad and selling UK home
- CGT during divorce or separation
- Business Asset Disposal Relief – deadlines and claims
- Asset disposals not subject to Capital Gains Tax
- Tax if you live abroad and sell UK home
- Gifts to spouse or charity
- BADR associated disposals
- 60 days is better than 30 days
- CGT Roll-over Relief
- More time to pay Capital Gains Tax
- Claiming CGT Gift Hold-Over relief
- Tax-free gains on gifts to spouse or charity
- Current Capital Gains Tax rates
- CGT on second property sales – 30 day rule
- Tax when you sell a business property
- Private residence relief
- Bed and breakfast – the same day rule
- Tax on sale of cryptoassets
- Claiming Business Asset Disposal Relief
- Category: Company Secretarial
- Category: Construction Industry Scheme
- Category: Corporate Governance & Regulation
- Do not respond if you receive this letter
- Changes to Companies House Fees
- Register an overseas company
- Closing a limited company
- Company names – new regulations
- Company confirmation statement changes
- Register of Overseas Entities
- Changing a company’s accounting year end
- Companies House filing fees increase
- Advise HMRC if company is dormant
- Types of limited companies
- Summary of Companies House changes
- Re-starting a dormant company
- Change to Company Accounts filing
- Closing a limited company
- Companies urged to file accounts early
- Get information about a company
- Closing a limited company
- Register of Overseas Entities
- Check if a company is being liquidated
- Dissolved companies and bona vacantia
- Filing abridged company accounts
- Unlawful estate agency businesses
- Companies House new WebFiling account
- Bona Vacantia – dissolved companies
- Free company information
- Appeals process for late filing of company accounts
- Filing obligations for private limited companies
- New powers for Insolvency Service
- Changing a company accounting date
- Record keeping for limited companies
- Company information on signs and stationery
- Category: Corporation Tax
- Post cessation transactions
- How to claim R&D expenditure credit
- Directors who are liable for unpaid tax
- Restarting a dormant or non-trading company
- Full expensing of capital purchases
- New tax credits for film, TV and game makers
- More time to file company accounts
- Corporation Tax marginal rate
- Tax relief for R&D intensive SMEs
- Company tax return obligations
- What is a business repair?
- Accounting periods for Corporation Tax
- Utilising Capital Gains Tax losses
- No gain – no loss transfers in groups of companies
- Corporation Tax Group Payment Arrangements
- Carrying company losses back
- Associated companies and Corporation Tax
- Spring Budget 2023 – Creative industry tax reliefs
- Corporation tax from 1 April 2023
- Corporation Tax changes April 2023
- R&D tax consultation launched
- 25% Corporation Tax from April 2023
- Corporation Tax increases from April 2023
- Claiming Corporation Tax losses
- Residential Property Developer Tax
- Still time to claim super-deduction
- Non-resident company taxation
- Filing and paying company tax returns
- Corporation Tax – marginal relief from 1 April 2023
- Accounting periods for Corporation Tax
- Corporation Tax – reminder HMRC contact details
- Structures and Buildings Allowances
- Tell HMRC if your company is dormant
- How CIS off-set works in practice
- Global minimum Corporation Tax of 15%
- Company reconstructions – liabilities restriction
- What can be transferred between group members?
- Switching between film and TV reliefs
- Payments received after company is dissolved
- Corporation Tax loss buying
- Goodwill and Corporation Tax
- When is a company dormant for tax purposes?
- Associated company rules
- Pre-trading expenditure
- Category: Customs Duties
- Hiring customs agents
- Online check how to import or export goods
- Customs Declaration Service open for business
- Does your business offer customs services?
- New Green Freeports for Scotland
- Customs Declaration Service deadline extended
- The Customs Declaration Service
- Using the Customs Declaration Service
- Customs declaration service update
- Further changes to customs issues from 1 July 2022
- Claiming tariff quotas to reduce import duties
- Getting prepared to use Freeport customs sites
- Find customs agent to help with import/export declarations
- Getting ready for Customs Declaration Service
- Category: Duties
- Category: Employee Benefits
- Tax and employee share schemes
- Employee suggestion schemes
- Beneficial tax-exempt loans
- New tips guidance published
- Bikes for employees
- Payrolling employee expenses and benefits
- Tax-free mileage expenses
- Reporting company car changes
- Using your vehicle for work related journeys
- Tax consequences of loans to employees
- Tax exempt accommodation costs
- Reminder of not-so-trivial tax-free benefits
- Tax free annual party
- Electric charging of company vehicles at home base
- Tax on incentive rewards
- Calculate tax on company cars
- Tax on trivial benefits
- On your bike tax-free
- Tax exempt private medical costs
- Filing deadline for share scheme operators
- What is a P11D?
- What is a Share Incentive Plan?
- Miscellaneous benefits in kind
- Vehicle benefit charges from April 2023
- Accommodation expenses and benefits
- Company Share Option Plans
- Tax-free trivial benefits
- Claiming for mobile phones
- PAYE settlement agreements
- On your bike – cycle to work exemption
- Exempt loans to employees
- Car fuel benefits for employees
- A reminder of trivial benefit rules
- Tax treatment of incentive scheme awards
- Make the most of tax-free trivial benefits
- Tax treatment of incentive award schemes
- Exempt beneficial employee loans
- Are you taking advantage of trivial benefits?
- Check if you can claim working from home expenses
- Category: Employment & Payroll
- Check employment status for tax
- Statutory Pay assistance
- Payback company car private fuel
- Reporting expenses and benefits to HMRC
- Taxable employment benefits from April 2026
- Using the starter PAYE checklist
- What are the off-payroll working rules?
- Apprenticeships boost
- Reporting employee changes to HMRC
- Tax and working from home
- Claiming relief for work related expenses
- Employing staff for first time
- Working from home tax relief
- Childcare support from HMRC
- Check if you need to pay someone through PAYE
- Emergency tax codes
- Tax on public transport season tickets
- Withholding tips from staff now unlawful
- Company cars – working out taxable value
- Mobile phones and tax
- Beneficial loans that are exempt
- Tax codes for employees
- PAYE and overseas employees
- Actors and entertainers – profession or employment
- Redundancy pay
- Exempt company cars and fuel benefits
- Don’t forget those trivial benefits
- What is a salary sacrifice?
- Reminder of working from home allowances
- What your tax code means
- Directors and National Minimum Wage
- Employing someone step by step
- Tax relief for job expenses
- Interest rates on student loans from September 2022
- Working from home
- Employee ownership and involvement
- Emergency tax codes
- Entitlement to National Minimum Wage
- Tax-free mileage expenses
- Commuting to work
- End of SSP Rebate Scheme
- Tax relief if working from home
- Tax relief for job-related expenses
- Tax codes for employees
- Employing for the first time
- Tax relief for working from home
- Self-certified sick notes
- Reminder of Statutory Sick Pay pay-back scheme
- Claiming tax relief for working from home
- Vehicle benefit charges from April 2022
- Autumn Budget 2021 – Minimum Wage increases
- Tax and termination payments
- £500 million Plan for Jobs Expansion
- Reminder for reporting expenses and benefits for 2020-21
- Taxable benefit charge – returning office equipment
- Category: Employment Law
- Employees on full-time and part-time contracts
- New employment rights for parents and carers
- NMW non-compliance penalties
- Register as a childminder
- Check employment status for tax
- Paying staff on jury service
- Continuous employment defined
- National Minimum Wage reminder for summer staff
- Off-payroll working rules best practice
- Employment Status Tool
- Category: European Union
- Category: Excise duties
- Category: General
- Child Benefit for 16 – 19 year olds
- Types of HMRC enquiries
- New Brooms
- Falling inflation – what does it mean for you?
- Change
- New protection for consumers
- General election date announced
- Benefits of a fall in inflation
- View your annual tax summary
- Universal Credit changes
- Childcare funding for under 9-month-olds
- Act now to claim dormant funds
- Cyber protection laws introduced
- Post Office Offences Bill to be extended
- Do’s and don’ts for Standard Visitors to the UK
- Tipping boost
- Smart energy
- View and prove your immigration status
- Accessing the HMRC mobile APP
- HMRC continues to target till fraud
- Measures to support household budgets from 1 April
- HMRC helpline changes on hold
- HMRC to accept service of legal proceedings by email
- Tech companies assist with fuel price transparency
- Appeals against tax penalties
- Beware fake tax rebate offers
- Are you self-employed?
- Autumn Finance Bill 2023 update
- The Valuation Office Agency tackles holiday lets
- Government promotes electric vehicles
- Government launches new WhatsApp channel
- Spring Budget 2024
- Scottish Budget 2024-25
- Welsh Budget 2024-25
- Obtaining the HMRC mobile app
- Planning changes to boost solar rollout
- What data do organisations hold about you?
- Autumn Finance Bill 2023 published
- Autumn Statement Summary
- Fuel price watchdog sharpens its teeth
- Cost of living payments
- Paying tax by direct debit
- Scottish council tax frozen
- Cost of Living payments 2023-24 support
- Have you downloaded your HMRC app?
- Reforms to powers of attorney
- Bank deposits covered by FSCS
- National Living Wage potential boost
- Unclaimed Child Trust Fund Accounts
- Community Investment Tax Relief scheme
- Paying tax by debit card or business credit card
- Autumn Statement 2023
- Clampdown on fake reviews and hidden fees
- Back to school – help with childcare costs
- Access to cash to be protected
- HMRC increases interest rates again
- Being made bankrupt
- Scottish charities regulations
- The end of scam calls selling financial products?
- Gambling white paper reforms
- Draft legislation published for Finance Bill 2023-24
- HMRC pledges £5.5m in partnership funding
- HMRC increases interest rates
- Duty free limits if you are travelling abroad
- Check when to expect reply from HMRC
- Passport delays and applications
- Complexity may be double-edged sword
- New patents service
- Action to contain cost of living pressures – groceries
- HMRC interest rates increase again
- Simplified tax system for savers
- New Bill to crack down on online fraud
- Paying tax by credit or debit card
- Scottish government announces new childcare initiatives
- Bank of England and HMRC increase interest rates
- Spring Finance Bill published
- Scottish Parliament approves 3% rent cap
- Spring Budget 2023 – Energy Price Guarantee
- Scottish Winter Payments Support
- Bereavement Support Payment
- The digital pound
- Balancing your budget
- Passport fee increase
- Late tax payment interest rate rise
- Scottish Child Payment
- New laws to mitigate disruption during public service strikes
- HMRC interest rate changes
- Budget date 2023 announced
- Mortgage payment support
- Use HMRC’s tax app to save time
- Low-cost broadband and phone tariffs
- Autumn Finance Bill published
- Fiscal drag
- Autumn Statement Summary
- HMRC interest rate changes
- SA taxpayers target for fraudsters
- Chancellor statements – 17 October 2022
- Prime Minister’s statement – 14 October 2022
- Claiming Child Trust Fund cash
- Government U-turn on 45p tax rate
- New Chancellor’s approach to economic priorities
- Land Registry Property Alerts
- Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s State Funeral
- Tackling the cost-of-living crisis
- Help for Households campaign
- Contacting HMRC by email
- Reminder that the plug-in grant has ended
- Reminder of compensation limits for bank deposits
- Duty free limits if you are travelling abroad
- NIC threshold increased
- Changes at HM Treasury
- Old style £20 and £50 notes
- Potential tax demand scam
- Concerns about tax repayment agents
- Claiming Child Trust Fund cash
- New deal for private renters
- Reform of Consumer Credit Act
- What is tax avoidance?
- Till fraud targeted by HMRC
- HMRC advice to counter spoof emails or texts
- New measures to help with the cost-of-living crisis
- UK Infrastructure Bank set-up
- Access to cash protection increased
- Tax benefits of switching to electric cars
- Accountancy expenses arising out of an enquiry
- Get help with childcare costs for Easter
- Rural pubs community funding
- Scammers target Self-Assessment taxpayers
- Transferring assets during separation and divorce
- Latest on COVID restrictions in England
- Challenging your council tax band
- Beware online rip-offs
- Support with rising energy bills
- Extending MTD for Income Tax to businesses and landlords
- HMRC “sweetheart” deals
- HMRC fraud squad net £1bn from criminals
- Beware online sales scams
- Plug-in grants for electric vehicles
- BOE advises government on inflation hike to 5.1%
- The judgement in HMRC v Tooth
- Plug-in grants for electric vehicles
- Government agrees OTS recommendations
- Steps to modernise UK tax system
- New warnings from HMRC re tax fraudsters
- If clients ask – trading hours for retailers
- Vehicles exempt from Vehicle Excise Duty
- Vehicles eligible for a plug-in grant
- Transport restrictions eased
- Have you claimed your Child Trust Fund cash?
- £500m support for vulnerable households
- MTD for Income Tax has been delayed by one year to April 2024
- OTS releases video update
- Government announces winter COVID plan
- Student tax scam warning
- Budget date announced
- Capped social care costs from October 2023
- Child benefit when child turns 16
- How to deal with tax appeals
- Postmasters’ bankruptcies reviewed
- Card security update
- Stage 4 COVID roadmap implemented 19th July
- OTS – making better use of third party data
- UK Infrastructure Bank opens for business
- Agent Dedicated Line relaunched
- Category: HMRC notices
- Check if HMRC contact is genuine
- Do you need to register for Economic Crime Levy?
- Holiday Lets averaging election
- Landlords – claiming maintenance and repairs costs
- Time to Pay your tax
- HMRC awards £5.5m in grant funding
- Help to Save scheme
- Gifts of shares to minor (under 18s) children
- Due a student loan refund?
- Help to Save bonus payments
- Trusts and Income Tax
- Replacement of domestic items relief
- Who needs an EORI number?
- Paying tax by Certificate of Tax Deposit
- Accommodation that qualifies as Holiday Lets
- Replacement of domestic items relief
- Searching for details about property
- Business records if self-employed
- Changes to Scottish Bankruptcy law
- Regulated businesses hit with Anti-Money Laundering fines
- Gift Aid small donations scheme
- What you must tell HMRC
- Selling all or part of your company
- Can a charity claim Gift Aid?
- Gift aid tax benefits
- Consultation on taxation of cryptoasset loans
- Landlord responsibilities
- Retaining an interest in a gift
- The Let Property Campaign
- Spring Budget 2023 – Social investment tax relief to end
- Properties not let at commercial rates
- Moving goods to and from Northern Ireland
- Five more tax avoidance schemes named by HMRC
- NI Trader Support Service extended
- Goods sent from abroad
- HMRC’s shared workspace
- Overdrawn director’s loan account
- Retaining tax return records
- Miscellaneous income
- Settlement legislation – non-trust settlements
- Tax gap remains at 5.1%
- Standards for tax agents
- Intrastat – trading goods with EU
- Holiday lets occupancy check
- ISAs 2022-23
- Income excluded from a property business
- Writing off a director’s loan
- HMRC names avoidance scheme promoters
- When does a partnership exist?
- What is a wasting asset?
- When does a partnership exist?
- Overview of Digital Services Tax (DST)
- Examples when settlement legislation does not apply
- Hobbies and artificial trades
- Preparing a charity annual return
- Who should register for Plastic Packaging Tax
- Replacement of domestic items in let property
- Changes to customs declarations 1 January 2022
- Appealing to the First-tier Tribunal (Tax)
- Self-employed basis period reforms
- Discovery assessment changes
- Letting agencies and the Money Laundering Regulations
- Want to complain about HMRC?
- Income excluded from UK property business
- Rental business – post cessation transactions
- Tax if you divorce or separate
- Income excluded from a property business
- Tariff suspension on certain imports
- Category: Income Tax
- Are you claiming the marriage allowance
- Is your income over £100,000?
- Interest on children’s savings
- Self-assessment payments on account
- Filing your tax return early
- Need to register for self-assessment?
- Carry back charitable donations
- Self-employed tax basis period reform
- Changes to Scottish Income Tax rates 2024-25
- Claim tax relief if working from home
- What a tax code means
- Tax-free child care
- Declare a beneficial interests in joint property
- Still time to register for the Marriage Allowance
- Tax on savings interest
- Eligibility for replacement of domestic items relief
- Spring Budget 2024 – High Income Child Benefit Charge
- Spring Budget 2024 – non-dom changes
- Checking Furnished Holiday Let property occupancy
- Record number of taxpayers file on time
- Should you pay tax on selling goods online?
- Using your own vehicles for work-related journeys
- Penalties if you missed the filing deadline
- File early to have self-assessment tax coded out
- Do you need to tell HMRC about additional income?
- Do you need to register for self-assessment?
- Reminder to claim the Marriage Allowance
- Less than one month to tax return filing deadline
- Beware higher rate tax on dividends
- What happens if your income exceeds £100K 2023-24?
- Helpline delays at HMRC
- Help to pay your tax next month
- Rent-a-room relief
- Pensioner Cost of Living Payment
- Income Tax – £5,000 savings zero rate band
- The badges of trade
- Marriage allowance entitlement
- Time to Pay tax
- Closing the door on tax planning
- Countdown to Self-Assessment filing deadline
- Self-Assessment scam warning
- Loss of personal tax allowance
- How dividends are taxed
- Deadlines 2022-23 Self-Assessment tax return
- Reporting self-employed profits 2023-24
- When you can and cannot use the Rent-a-Room Scheme
- Income Tax in Scotland if you have more than one home
- Do you need to register for Self-Assessment?
- Who is a Scottish taxpayer?
- Self-Assessment threshold change
- Higher rate tax relief on gifts to charities
- Reducing self-assessment payments on account
- Do you need to submit a Self-Assessment tax return?
- Checking your Simple Assessment tax bill
- Claiming tax relief on employment expenses
- Let Property Campaign
- Need to tell HMRC about extra income?
- HMRC recommends early filing of tax returns
- Tax on savings interest
- Getting a SA302 tax calculation
- Cannot pay your tax on time?
- Updating your tax return
- Advising HMRC about changes in your income
- Tax relief for charitable donations
- Marriage Allowance how it works
- Offshore taxpayers offered chance to come clean
- HMRC’s Self-Assessment line summer closure
- Effects of settlement legislation
- Check text messages from HMRC
- Claim a tax refund for work expenses
- Residence affects Income Tax in UK
- Tax by stealth
- When do you pay tax at Scottish Income Tax rates?
- Rent-a-room relief
- Tax-free savings interest
- Tax-free allowance on trading and property income
- Losing your personal income tax allowance
- Students and tax
- Claim tax relief for charitable donations
- Do you need to file a tax return
- Still time to claim Marriage Allowance
- Newly self-employed taxpayers
- Record number of taxpayers file on time
- Half-term help with childcare costs
- Using the Gift Aid scheme
- Did you file your tax return on Christmas Day?
- Are you ready for 31 January 2023?
- Digitisation of tax postponed
- Using the HMRC app to make Self-Assessment tax payments
- Collecting tax from wealthy taxpayers
- The Rent a Room Scheme
- Who is a Scottish taxpayer?
- Self-assessment payments on account
- Personal tax allowances frozen to April 2028
- MTD for ITSA
- More on HMRC payment plans
- Declare COVID support payments received
- Tax on dividends
- 3-months to Self-Assessment filing deadline 2021-22
- Half-term help with childcare costs
- Donations through Gift Aid
- Deadlines 2021-22 Self-Assessment tax return
- Jeopardy amendments
- What Self-Assessment items can be stoodover by HMRC?
- Income Tax in Scotland
- Joining the MTD ITSA pilot
- Taxable and tax-free State Benefits
- Back to school – help with childcare costs
- How dividends are taxed
- Do you qualify for the marriage allowance?
- Using Advisory Fuel rates
- Tax relief on replacement of domestic items
- Business records if self-employed
- Applying for Marriage Allowance
- Joining the MTD ITSA pilot
- Tax credits renewal deadline reminder
- Childcare top-up to cover summer activities
- Taxpayers who return to the UK
- Sign in to Childcare Account
- Arranging to pay tax bill by instalments
- HMRC wins disguised remuneration case
- Dividend tax increase from 6 April 2022
- Planning for Basis Period reform
- Check your Income Tax for current year
- Do you need to submit a Self-Assessment return for 2021-22?
- Will you need to repay child benefits?
- Limits to loss relief claims against income or capital gains
- Claiming for business use of own car or van
- Spreading the cost of tax bills
- Don’t miss out on this tax allowance
- Paying tax underpayments via tax code
- 19% fail to file on time
- How to join MTD ITSA pilot
- Working for yourself
- Income Tax set-off of rental business losses
- HMRC agree delay in tax return deadline
- Delay in implementing late payment penalties
- Will you need to pay-back Child Benefits?
- A reminder – HMRC’s badges of trade
- Pay your tax bill by instalments
- Rent-a-room relief
- Who needs to register for Self-Assessment
- Carry-back charitable donations
- Can you claim the Marriage Allowance?
- What is a tax calculation?
- Self-Assessment countdown
- Autumn Budget 2021 – Dividend tax rates
- Self-Assessment filing deadlines
- Don’t miss out on this tax allowance
- More on possible change to tax year end date
- Dental Associates tax status update
- Do tax-payers need to register for Self-Assessment
- Using your Personal tax accounts
- Claiming a tax refund
- Back to school – help with childcare costs
- Tax relief on charitable donations
- 1.8m couples benefit from extra tax relief
- Expenses you can and cannot claim against property rents
- Rent-a-room: letting as office accommodation
- Reporting foreign income for UK tax purposes
- Childcare top-up to cover summer activities
- Replacement of domestic items relief
- How are dividends taxed?
- Are you a landlord that owes tax to HMRC?
- How to claim tax relief on employment expenses
- Income Tax if you move to or from Scotland
- Category: Inheritance Tax
- Transferring unused IHT residence nil rate band
- Lifetime transfers and liability to IHT
- Transferring unused nil rate band for IHT
- IHT gifts – 7 year limit
- Utilise your 2023-24 IHT reliefs
- IHT – Giving away your home before you die
- Transferring IHT unused nil rate band
- What is a trust?
- Giving money to charity in your Will
- Characteristics of a valid Will
- Transfer of unused IHT nil rate band
- Overview of IHT agricultural relief
- Business Relief for IHT
- Exempt gifts paid out of income
- Transferring nil rate band for Inheritance Tax
- Valuing an estate for IHT purposes
- Making a claim on an unclaimed estate
- Have you utilised 2022-23 IHT allowances and reliefs?
- Exempt transfers between siblings
- IHT – estimating an estate’s value
- Tax on property you inherit
- Gifts paid out of disposable income
- IHT claiming business relief
- IHT gifts with reservation of title
- Changing a will after death
- IHT Business Relief
- Gifts with reservation
- Qualifying for residence nil rate band
- Domicile and IHT
- IHT business asset relief
- Inheritance Tax-free gifts reminder
- Bare or simple trusts
- IHT – limitations on spouse or civil partner exemptions
- Leaving gifts to charity in your Will
- IHT and domicile
- IHT change of domicile
- Who pays Inheritance Tax?
- Inheritance Tax Business Relief
- IHT – settled and excluded property
- The 7-year rule
- Category: National Insurance
- Finding your National Insurance number
- Directors and National Insurance
- Deferring National Insurance payments
- Checking your National Insurance records
- Class 4 NICs who is liable?
- Entitlement to carer’s allowance
- Check your National Insurance record
- Spring Budget 2024 – NIC changes
- What is Class 1A NIC?
- National Insurance and tax after State Pension Age
- Changes to NIC from January 2024
- NIC changes for the self-employed
- NIC changes for employees from 6 January 2024
- Filling gaps in National Insurance record
- Checking your National Insurance record
- Class 2 and 4 NIC for the self-employed
- Filling gaps in your NIC record
- National Insurance credits
- Deadline to top-up NIC contributions extended
- Check your NIC record
- National Insurance for company directors
- More time to top-up NICs
- National Insurance if working abroad
- NIC and company directors
- Gaps in your National Insurance record
- Check your National Insurance Record
- Applying for National Insurance number
- National Insurance for company directors
- Class 1A payment deadline
- Deadlines for making voluntary NIC top-ups
- NIC relief if employing veterans
- Self-employed NIC changes
- Increase in National Insurance from April 2022
- Gaps in NIC records
- Class 1 NIC changes extend to Class 1A contributions
- Finding your National Insurance number
- Self-employed NIC charges
- NICs after reaching State Pension Age
- Category: NIC & Pensions
- Category: Other duties
- Category: Overseas Corporate tax issues
- Category: Overseas personal tax issues
- Category: Overseas tax issues
- Category: Payroll
- Employing staff for the first time?
- Termination payment clearance process
- More about emergency tax codes
- A reminder that NLW and NMW rates are increasing
- Correcting payroll mistakes
- Assets made available to an employee
- Year end payroll reporting
- Reporting early payment of wages before Christmas
- Increase in National Living Wage
- National Living Wage rates from April 2023
- Setting up a salary sacrifice arrangement
- Minimum wage for different types of work
- IR35 reforms
- PAYE Settlement Agreements
- Claiming Employment Allowance
- Termination payments
- Completing P11D forms to report benefits in kind
- When you are required to register for PAYE
- NIC Rates and Allowances for 2022-23
- Reporting travel and subsistence benefits
- Category: Pension
- Check your State Pension forecast
- Claim tax relief on pension contributions
- Workplace pension responsibilities
- Tax on inherited private pensions
- Pension Credit deadline
- Tax relief on pension contributions
- Tracking down lost pension details
- Pension tax relief at source
- Overview of private pension contributions
- State Pension if you retire abroad
- Check your State Pension forecast
- Pension Credits
- Take advantage of new pension tax reforms
- Spring Budget 2023 – Pension changes
- Adding employees to a workplace pension scheme
- Limits to tax relief for pension contributions
- What is a defined contribution pension?
- Private pension contributions tax relief
- The pension savings annual allowance
- Tax when you get your pension
- Pensions triple lock to be reinstated
- Changes in State Pension age
- Auto enrolment for care workers
- Pension triple-lock abandoned for one year
- Covering pension contributions with unused allowances
- What is net income for pension relief purposes?
- Category: Personal
- Private rental deposits
- Changes to the High Income Child Benefit Charge
- Childcare Account chores
- New employment protections
- Assistance with debt management
- Rent a Room Scheme – another income stream
- Cost of living final payment 2023-24
- Setting up a payment plan with HMRC
- Help with childcare costs
- Help to Save extended to April 2025
- Cost of living payments 2023-24
- Pensioner Cost of Living Payment 2023-24
- Spring Budget 2023 – Childcare changes
- Mortgage Guarantee Scheme extended
- Second cost of living payment
- Notifying cessation of self-employment
- Right to Buy home scheme extended
- Mortgage interest on rented property
- Protecting your personal data
- Category: Stamp duty
- Category: Stamp Duty Land Tax
- Multiple Dwellings Relief for SDLT
- Stamp Duty on shared ownership property
- ATED for non-resident companies
- Stamp duty refunds scam
- Increased rates for second homes in Wales
- Transferring property to unmarried couples and other joint owners
- SDLT concerns transferring a property to a company
- Valuing property for ATED
- Category: Tax credits
- Tax credits reminder
- Time to renew tax credits
- Tax credits top-up
- Tax credits renewal deadline reminder
- HMRC tax credits scam warning
- Reminder to look out for tax credit renewal packs
- Scotland’s increased social security benefits
- Reminder to look out for tax credit renewal packs
- Tax credits renewal deadline reminder
- Category: Tax Diary
- Tax Diary July/August 2024
- Tax Diary June/July 2024
- Tax Diary May/June 2024
- Tax Diary April/May 2024
- Tax Diary March/April 2024
- Tax Diary February/March 2024
- Tax Diary January/February 2024
- Tax Diary December 2023/ January 2024
- Tax Diary November/December 2023
- Tax Diary October/November 2023
- Tax Diary September/October 2023
- Tax Diary August/September 2023
- Tax Diary July/August 2023
- Tax Diary June/July 2023
- Tax Diary May/June 2023
- Tax Diary April/May 2023
- Tax Diary March/April 2023
- Tax Diary February/March 2023
- Tax Diary January/February 2023
- Tax Diary December 2022/January 2023
- Tax Diary November/December 2022
- Tax Diary October/November 2022
- Tax Diary June/July 2022
- Tax Diary May/June 2022
- Tax Diary March/April 2022
- Tax Diary February/March 2022
- Tax Diary January/February 2022
- Tax Diary December 2021/January 2022
- Tax Diary November/December 2021
- Tax Diary October/November 2021
- Tax Diary September/October 2021
- Tax Diary August/September 2021
- Tax Diary July/August 2021
- Tax Diary June/July 2021
- Category: Value Added Tax
- How to check a UK VAT number
- Reclaiming pre-trading VAT
- Are we unpaid tax collectors?
- Correcting errors in VAT returns
- VAT reverse charge for builders
- Check a VAT number
- VAT boost to charitable donations
- VAT retail schemes
- Paying VAT on goods from EU to Northern Ireland
- Spring Budget 2024 – VAT registration threshold changes
- Eligibility for the VAT Flat Rate Scheme
- Joining or leaving the VAT Cash Accounting Scheme
- VAT – option to tax property
- Using the VAT Flat Rate Scheme
- VAT on period products scrapped
- Do you need to register for VAT in 2024?
- Flat Rate Scheme annual review
- Tax and duties on goods sent from abroad
- What counts as holiday accommodation?
- When you must register for VAT
- VAT Capital Goods Scheme
- Activities subject to the scope of VAT
- VAT supplies for no consideration
- VAT recovery when leasing vehicles
- Tax and duty on goods sent from abroad
- VAT treatment of road fuel costs
- Transferring a VAT registration
- Check a UK VAT number is valid
- VAT Exempt services
- Transfer of Business as a Going Concern
- Your tasks if a VAT-registered business
- VAT on imported vehicles
- VAT guidance for overseas sellers
- Changes in VAT penalties
- New VAT penalty regime
- VAT – transfer of business as a going concern
- VAT – unpaid tax collectors
- When you must register for VAT
- What is the VAT One Stop Shop?
- New VAT penalty regime from 2023
- Claiming back pre-trading VAT costs
- VAT – partly exempt businesses
- Check a UK VAT number
- New VAT Registration process for agents
- VAT Flat Rate scheme
- Final warning to use MTD for VAT
- How the VAT Reverse Charge works
- Statutory interest
- Transfer of business as a going concern
- VAT Capital Goods Scheme
- Overseas seller VAT check
- VAT Flat Rate Scheme
- VAT and food supplies
- Construction services taxed at VAT zero or 5% rate
- Furnished Holiday Lets and VAT
- VAT Flat Rate Scheme – are you a limited cost trader?
- VAT – discounts and free gifts
- Builders – when you may not have to charge VAT
- Reclaiming VAT
- Definition of VAT partial exemption
- Revoking VAT option to tax land and buildings
- Range of supplies affected by VAT reverse charge
- MTD for VAT – digital records required
- Option to tax (VAT) land and buildings
- Charging charities at lower rates of VAT
- Tax and customs duties for goods sent from abroad
- VAT Flat Rate Scheme exclusions
- Are you registered for Making Tax Digital for VAT?
- Postponed VAT accounting
- VAT group registration
- VAT – driving schools who supplies services?
- TOGC overview
- VAT and business gifts
- VAT business test
- VAT reverse charge and the flat rate scheme
- VAT Margin Scheme bad debt relief
- What goods are eligible for the margin scheme?
- Hospitality trades temporary reduction in VAT has expired
- Completing a One Stop Shop VAT return
- VAT register inactivity
- Deadline for notifying an option to tax (VAT) land and buildings
- Scope and legal basis of VAT
- Recovering VAT on car purchases
- VAT capital goods scheme overview
- Who can use VAT annual accounting scheme
- VAT inclusive and exclusive prices
- Taxis: what is liable to VAT
- VAT – what you can and cannot reclaim
- New EU VAT Import One Stop Shop (IOSS) rules
- VAT – which supplies does reverse charge apply to
- VAT – what is partial exemption?
- Building a new home and VAT
- Who can use the VAT retail schemes?
- What is distance selling for VAT purposes?
- One month left to join VAT Deferral Payment Scheme
- When not to charge VAT
- Category: VAT & Duties