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Excuses, excuses: HMRC reveals top late tax return apologies
07 February 2018
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has once again revealed the worst excuses that taxpayers have given them for failing to meet the 31 January Self-Assessment (SA) deadline.
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Ban on passing credit card fees on to consumers hits small businesses in the pocket
07 February 2018
A ban on passing on charges from credit card providers to consumers, which came into effect last month, is hitting small businesses in the pocket.
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Millennials set for ‘inheritance boom’… but not until the 2030s
07 February 2018
A new report from think-tank, the Resolution Foundation, predicts that so-called ‘millennials’, those aged between 17 and 35, will receive the biggest inheritance of any post-war generation from their baby boomer parents and grandparents.
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Remain-supporting former minister strikes optimistic note on post-Brexit economy
07 February 2018
Former Conservative Treasury Minister, Lord Jim O’Neil has told the BBC that gloomy predictions for the post-Brexit UK economy are likely to be ‘dwarfed’ by global growth figures surpassing expectations.
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Self-employed workers may miss out on mortgages due to changes in delivery of SA302 forms
15 September 2017
Self-employed workers in the UK have reported their struggles to acquire a mortgage, after HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) changed the way it issues details of tax calculations and tax year overviews for submission with mortgage applications.
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Revenue’s crackdown on VAT evaders yields £3.4 billion from small and medium firms
15 September 2017
New analysis of HM Revenue & Customs’ (HMRC’s) data has revealed that the department collected an additional £3.4 billion from small and medium-sized businesses in the tax year to April 2017.
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HMRC launches new online forum to give small business owners direct tax advice
15 September 2017
A new online forum has been launched by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) which has been designed to help company owners resolve simple issues related to starting and growing a company.
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Taxpayers begin to receive simple assessment requests (PA302)
15 September 2017
Taxpayers across the UK will have begun to receive a simple assessment (form PA302) from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), which will ask for payment of tax that cannot be coded out under PAYE.
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HMRC dynamic coding causes issues for taxpayers
15 September 2017
From July this year, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has been utilising its new system of dynamic coding, which allows for in-year adjustments (IYAs) of a person’s tax code.
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Government begins to play its hand at the Brexit negotiation table
15 September 2017
The Government has begun to publish a number of position papers which aim to set out how it intends to negotiate with the EU during the Brexit process.
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