From 6 April 2026, people with trading/property income over £50,000 per annum must keep records and report information digitally to HMRC.
It’s vital that you can pay your workers the new minimum wage, without disrupting other aspects of your business.
There is a new scam letter targeting businesses, requesting taxpayers ‘verify’ their financial information via email.
From 6 April 2026, people with yearly trading/property income over £50,000 must move to a digital system to record and declare information.
Read our summary of the Spring Budget 2024, with changes to National Insurance, Child Benefit and second homes…
Conducting year-end work can be difficult to prioritise. Read through our ten strategies that can make your year-end process a more seamless.
Sole traders & partnerships: If your year-end is not 31 March or 5 April, HMRC is changing how it will assess your profits.
As a result of ‘administrative discrepancies’ by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), mothers may have been underpaid around £1bn in state pension. This has occurred due to information missing from the national insurance (NI) records.
There are always competing factors to consider when thinking about your March year-end as a company. How prepared do you feel?
For a round-up of what the Spring Budget contained and how this might affect you, please read our summary of some of the major changes.
You may recall that a new Plastic Packaging Tax was announced in the 2020 Budget. The legislation is now before Parliament so we have
The 'badges of trade' tests, whilst not conclusive, are used by HMRC to help determine whether an activity is a proper economic / business activity or merely a money-making side-line to a hobby. Eventually, taxpayers may have to decide if
HMRC has published a useful list to help businesses be prepared to import goods from the EU to the UK as we count down to the 31 January 2020 Brexit date. We are then likely to see a fixed transition period until 31 December 2020 by the end of which
The inaccuracy penalty system is intended to make penalties simpler to understand and more consistent across many taxes. HMRC has the power to significantly reduce the amount of penalties due. The largest reductions are for unprompted disclosures (as
The holder of a scholarship is exempt from a charge to Income Tax on income from a scholarship when receiving full-time education at a university, college, school or other educational establishment.
Please note, that the provision of a scholarship
There are special rules, known as the miscellaneous income sweep-up provisions, that seek to charge tax on certain income. This unusual provision, which is broad in scope, catches certain income that would not otherwise be charged under specific
As the school holidays fast approach, many parents face having to organise extra school holiday childcare over the summer months.
HMRC is reminding parents that the Tax-Free Childcare (TFC) scheme can help if you have children aged 0-11 years old.
Statement of Practice 4/97 sets out HMRC’s views on the correct treatment for tax purposes of commission, cashbacks and discounts. Cashbacks are taken to mean lump sums received by a customer as an inducement for entering into a transaction for
According to HMRC’s published guidance there are special rules for the taxation of post-cessation receipts and expenses. These provisions apply to professions, vocations and trades.
Tax relief may be available for post-cessation expenses of a trade,
The Help to Save scheme for people on low incomes was officially launched in September 2018 and since then over 80,000 people have signed up. The scheme allows those in work entitled to Working Tax Credit and in receipt of Working Tax Credits or
The Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) is designed to help smaller higher-risk trading companies raise finance by offering a range of tax reliefs to investors who purchase new shares in those companies.
In order for investors to be able to claim
The Furnished Holiday Let (FHL) rules, allow holiday lettings of properties that meet certain conditions to be treated as a trade for some specific tax purposes.
In order to qualify as a furnished holiday letting, the following criteria need to be
If a taxpayer owns a business as a sole trader or in partnership, a capital gain will be deemed to arise if the business is converted into a company by reference to the market value of the business assets including goodwill. This may give rise to a
Overpayment relief was introduced from 1 April 2010 and replaced error or mistake relief for Income Tax, Capital Gains Tax (CGT) and Corporation Tax. Overpayment relief allows taxpayers to recover overpaid Income Tax, CGT, Class 4 NIC, Corporation
