New Event: Tax Law and Brexit
16th April 2021
Whatever your opinion of Brexit, what is undeniable is that it has created a large amount of head scratching and some frustration within businesses in the UK and Europe as they get to grips with...
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Financial Information Notices
By Mala Kapacee
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Tax
30th March 2021
All legislation references are to s.122, (draft) Finance Bill 2021, unless otherwise stated.
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HMRC Charter 2020: Better than before?
30th March 2021
The Cambridge English Dictionary defines a charter as ‘a formal statement of the rights of a country's people, or of an organization or a particular social group, that is agreed by or demanded from a...
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Uber v Aslam: The end of the beginning?
By Robin Williamson
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Tax
10th March 2021
On 19 February 2021, the Supreme Court released its decision in Uber BV and others v Aslam and others [2021] UKSC 5, ruling that the appellants (who were Uber drivers) were ‘workers’ under the...
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Budget in a Minute (or so)
5th March 2021
Headline Measures There were a number of developments, extensions and tweaks to pandemic measures, including temporary extensions to loss reliefs for Income Tax and Corporation Tax.
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Business Vehicles – First Year Allowance Changes effective April 2021
3rd March 2021
The UK Government has committed to a climate change policy aiming to reduce all greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050. Following a recent announcement that the Government will consult on...
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Budget 2021: The Enterprise Investment Scheme and other venture capital schemes
2nd March 2021
Following Brexit, the Chancellor has a great opportunity to think about how to enhance the venture capital schemes – the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS), Seed EIS (SEIS) and Venture Capital Trusts...
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Withdrawal of gross payment status was ‘disproportionate’
2nd March 2021
In an interesting First-tier Tribunal case, a judge has found that HMRC’s action in withdrawing gross payment status from a construction company eight years after its offence, when it had been...
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Get ready to opt-in to the new VAT payment scheme before it’s too late!
5th February 2021
If you were affected by the Coronavirus outbreak early last year and decided to defer your VAT payment for the period 20th March to 30th June 2020 as offered by the Government at the time, you may...
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No self-assessment filing penalties until 28 February!
28th January 2021
HMRC announced on (Monday) afternoon that it had decided that 2019/20 tax returns filed online up to 28 February 2021 would no longer be subject to the £100 late filing penalty that normally applies...
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