HMRC’s list of top 10 prosecutions in 2018 not only demonstrates the diversity of crimes that HMRC has to deal with, but also the assortment of perpetrators of these transgressions. High-flying business people, tax consultants, church l...
A request by HMRC for records will relate to a compliance check of some description. At one extreme it may be a dozen dividend vouchers are sought to validate an entry in a tax return or, at the other, non-business bank statements for sev...
HMRC Publishes Responses to Consultation on Recommendations for Agency Workers following Matthew Taylor Report on Modern Working Practices in the UK. The Matthew Taylor Report on Modern Working Practices was commissioned by the Governm...
You are an established contractor whose PSC is doing very nicely thank you. One of your closest friends wants to follow suit and decides to start up their own property development business but needs capital to get it up and running and ap...
At last, there has been a welcome development on the tax front, and one that in time could perhaps even pave the way for positive changes in how contractors and all UK taxpayers are treated by HMRC. Last week, a House of Lords report foc...
Unless something dramatic happens in the next few months the UK will leave the EU on 29 March 2019 but, at present, no-one knows whether we will leave with or without a deal or, if we do leave with a deal, whether that deal will enable us...
Everything You Need To Know To Win More Work At Better Rates. Join us for an action packed online workshop all about winning work, maximising rates and developing ‘Brand You’. This session is aimed at Contractors, Consultants an...
In the UK, every 23 minutes a van is broken into and tools are stolen from it, costing tradespeople £100m a year in total. Let that sink in for a moment. Every tradesman and tradeswoman hopes and probably thinks it won’t ever happen...
In a wider report titled ‘The Powers of HMRC: Treating Taxpayers Fairly’, the House of Lords’ ‘Economic Affairs Committee’ devotes a chapter to the 2019 loan charge and has called for the retrospective legislation to be amende...
Independent workers are prepared to move overseas when IR35 changes arrive, despite restrictions that Brexit might bring There aren’t many people in the UK who think that working and living in Europe post-Brexit will be as eas...
In its report, ‘Making Tax Digital for VAT: Treating Small Businesses Fairly’ published last week, the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee called upon the Government to delay the introduction of MTD for VAT by at least one year ...
Brexit has become an all-consuming issue for the Government. And now, after having convinced the EU leaders to accept her withdrawal agreement last weekend, Theresa May must have it signed off in Parliament next month. MPs are set to c...
Life insurance is a vital part of financial planning and is especially important to anyone who has dependents. We also understand though that it is one of those subjects that no one likes to discuss. That’s why many people don’t think t...
A recent report by the National Audit Office (NAO), ‘Investigation into the BBC's engagement with personal service companies’, reveals that the BBC happily allowed its presenters to carry on using their own limited companies in the kn...
We’ve created a webinar that’s been designed to help people understand how they can settle their tax affairs if they’ve been paid in loans to reduce their tax bill, otherwise known as a disguised remuneration. If you want to find out ...
When you work for yourself, as you’ll be well aware, you don’t enjoy the same benefits as those that are ‘traditionally’ employed. Those benefits you miss out on include sick pay and death-in-service, among others. Of course, the va...
