Tax Online Blog

Spring Statement – 13 March The Chancellor has announced that the Spring Statement will be on Wednesday 13 March. Read more

The Intermediaries Legislation (IR35) which was first introduced in the early 2000’s, has the purpose to retract tax advantages for individuals who present themselves as a limited business. The... Read more

It is not often that amendments to the annual Finance Bill make headline news, and rarer still that they are forced on the Government by cross-party groups of MPs. In the past week, the Bill was... Read more

Of the recommendations of the recent Report on Making Tax Digital for VAT: Treating small businesses fairly by the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee (Finance Bill Sub-Committee), one in... Read more

HMRC’s announcement that they would review certain cases where penalties were charged on taxpayers who had failed to register for the high income child benefit charge (HICBC), and refund them... Read more

The loan charge is an attempt to tax certain so-called ‘disguised remuneration’ schemes under which employees, workers or contractors are paid not through wages or salary subject to payroll taxes,... Read more

Making Tax Digital (MTD) will become effective from 1 April 2019. It’s a government initiative that requires businesses with an annual turnover above the VAT threshold (£85k) to submit their... Read more

The Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) has published a timely report entitled ‘Guidance for taxpayers: a vision for the future’. The report’s vision is for guidance geared to the needs of users,... Read more

What’s new in our plethora of tax online services? Steve Savory summarises the highlights. Read more

Mark McLaughlin highlights some important provisions in the latest Finance Bill and notes some other measures still to come. Read more