Making Tax Digital For VAT HMRC has opened the Making Tax Digital for VAT (MTDfV) public pilot. However certain VAT-registered businesses (around 3.5% according to HMRC) with more complex requirements…
New Guidance For Employers down: File Your Tax Return HMRC has issued the October 2018 Employer Bulletin which contains a number of articles relevant to employers on payroll related issues.The…
HMRC Countdown: File Your Tax Return With less than 100 days until the self assessment tax return deadline of 31 January 2019, HMRC is urging taxpayers to complete their tax…
Further Contingency Planning Guidance On A 'No Deal Brexit' HMRC has issued a Partnership Pack to help businesses carry out contingency planning and to help their customers, members and clients…
Welcome to the November edition of The Budget 2018 - Key points Income Tax Personal Allowance increases to £12,500 from April 2019 Income Tax Higher Rate Threshold increases to £50,000…
October NewsletterGW Cox & Co's October Newsletter is now available. This months edition includes information on underpayments that have been identified for workers on the minimum wage, self-employed class 2 national…
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UK Budget Date Announced The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, has announced that the Budget will take place on Monday 29 October.Breaking with the tradition of a Wednesday in…
'No Deal' Brexit Guidance And Small Business Survey Following the issue of some 'no deal' Brexit technical notices, in August, the government has issued further notices with the aim of…
Deadline For 'Paper' Self Assessment Tax Returns For those individuals who have previously submitted 'paper' self assessment tax returns the deadline for the 2017/18 return is 31 October 2018. Returns…
Deliberate Tax Defaulters HMRC has published an updated list of deliberate tax defaulters. The list includes details of taxpayers who have incurred a penalty because they have either: deliberately provided…
Genuine HMRC Contact And Recognising Phishing Emails And Texts HMRC has updated their guidance on how to recognise when contact from HMRC is genuine and how to recognise phishing or…
HMRC Identify A Record £15.6 Million Minimum Wage Underpayments HMRC has announced that they achieved record enforcement results this year, identifying £15.6million of minimum wage underpayments.The number of workers identified…
Childcare Voucher Scheme After an earlier extension, the final date for new entrants to the Childcare Voucher Scheme is fast approaching. Eligible employees can still join the scheme if their first…
Specification for employer substitute forms P60 This guide gives information on how to design substitute forms P60, ‘End of Year Certificate’ which employers may use instead of the official form,…
Anti-money laundering supervision: discussion about fees MRC sets out the background in a discussion paper and asks you to respond to questions about the way it charges fees to the…
Genuine HMRC contact and recognising phishing emails and texts Find out how to recognise when contact from HMRC is genuine, and how to recognise phishing or bogus emails and text…
Making Tax Digital For VAT HMRC has published further information on Making Tax Digital for VAT (MTDfV). The VAT notice sets out some further details of the MTDfV regime, which…
Bank Of England Raise Interest Rate The Bank of England has raised the interest rate from 0.5% to 0.75%. The quarter of a percentage point rise sets the rate at…
P11D and P11D(b) Filing and Payment Deadlines The deadline for reporting any Class 1A National Insurance contributions (NICs) that you owe for the tax year ending 5 April 2018 needs…