8 May 2017
HMRC is changing the way it deals with tax agents who phone in to request information on behalf of a client. The new system will be in place from 1 May 2017. Although a client may have given you, their tax agent, permission to act on their behalf, from 1…
27 April 2017
Making Tax Digital (MTD) will affect businesses from 2018 and the changes will inevitably have an impact on tax professionals who assist their clients to keep appropriate financial records for their tax returns to HMRC. While businesses of all sizes, plus the self-employed, are beginning to have an idea of…
HMRC’s public beta testing programme for Making Tax Digital (MTD) went live at the beginning of April, meaning that MTD is now a working reality. There are two pilot projects in place: one looks at keeping business records digitally while the other looks at the online services that tax agents…
6 April 2017
Making Tax Digital for individuals is only eight weeks away, and industry experts are joining forces to make people aware of the pros and cons of signing up to a Personal Tax Account (PTA). On one hand there are concerns that the introduction of MTD for individuals may herald chaos…
28 March 2017
Under the Pensions Act 2008 every employer in the UK must automatically enrol their qualifying workers into a workplace pension scheme. But are there circumstances when you can choose whether or not to enrol someone? Here are some cases where an employer can choose not to enrol an eligible worker…
