News
One in ten small businesses are concerned about business failure
17 September 2018
A new study has revealed that in the last three months the number of SMEs predicting they could close has doubled from five per cent to 10 per cent.
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A quick guide to the new penalties for late MTD filing and payments
17 September 2018
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has announced a pair of penalty systems for late filing and late payment under Making Tax Digital (MTD) for VAT, which is due to come into effect in April 2019.
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Regulator tells banks to stop victim-blaming
17 September 2018
The increasing sophistication of bank scams means that customers who lose money to such schemes should not automatically be blamed, the Financial Ombudsman Service has said.
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Working 9 to 5? It’s an unusual way to make a living
17 September 2018
The archetypal 9am to 5pm working day might be so ingrained into the psyche of workers across the Western world that Dolly Parton wrote a song about it, but new research has revealed that it is now an unusual way to make a living for UK workers.
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Documents reveal HMRC plans to secretly access bank account information
10 August 2018
Documents published online have revealed HM Revenue & Customs’ (HMRC) plans to secretly access bank account information. he planned new powers come in the form of information orders, which are used by the Revenue to determine that taxpayers are paying the correct amounts of Income Tax...
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Tens of thousands of fake HMRC websites taken down
10 August 2018
Figures published by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) show that 20,750 malicious websites have been taken down over the last year – 29 per cent more than in the previous year.
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HMRC collects more than £30 billion worth of extra tax in last financial year
10 August 2018
New figures from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) have revealed that the tax authority brought in a total of £605.8 billion in the year to April 2018 – an increase of nearly £30 billion on the previous year.
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MTD for VAT clarified in new communication from HMRC
10 August 2018
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has finally issued a new notice on Making Tax Digital for VAT in which it has clarified many of the questions that businesses had.
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More than 100,000 first-time buyers benefit from Stamp Duty Land Tax reforms
10 August 2018
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has published data which reveals that more than 100,000 first-time buyers have benefited from Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) reforms announced at the last Budget.
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Taxpayers warned of Requirement to Correct as deadline approaches
10 August 2018
Taxpayers with undeclared offshore tax liabilities, including Income Tax, Capital Gains Tax or Inheritance Tax, are obligated to disclose these liabilities to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) on or before 30 September 2018 under HM Revenue & Customs’ Requirement to Correct (RTC) regime.
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