Limited Companies

It’s that time of year again when everyone is getting excited for the bargains they might find in the January sales, which if you ask me have been getting earlier and earlier in recent years. But if you’re in business and are participating in the sales season, be it the recent Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Shop Local Saturday, Boxing Day or Read the full article…

If you are clients of RBS we now have more information in relation to the Business Banking Switch which will go live in late February 2019. Matthew Young, a long standing connection of ours from his RBS days, who is now with Yorkshire Bank came in to see us earlier this week and shared his insights and a great deal Read the full article…

Making Tax Digital for VAT (MTDfV) is still the hot topic of the moment (aside of course from Brexit madness!), and while there has been some speculation that, under the influence of the House of Lords, roll out of MTDfV may be delayed April 2020, other evidence suggests that this is highly unlikely. HMRC has now begun writing to businesses Read the full article…

HMRC has opened the Making Tax Digital for VAT (MTDfV) public pilot. However certain VAT-registered businesses (around 3.5% according to HMRC) with more complex requirements will be deferred from being subject to MTD for six months. Essentially, the public pilot is now open to sole traders and companies using standard VAT accounting. This applies whether returns are done monthly or Read the full article…

The Autumn Budget 2018 announced that changes to off payroll working in the private sector would not be introduced before 2019/20 tax year, and even then would only apply to large and medium sized businesses. We have had questions from a number of our contractor clients who are concerned about what any changes in relation to IR35 legislation may mean Read the full article…

The changes introduced in the 2018 Autumn Budget mean that many contractors could be almost £1,000 better off under the new tax rules. We have had many queries from our contractor client about what the Autumn 2018 Budget really means for them. So, we thought it might be useful to take a moment to highlight the areas which we think will impact Read the full article…

HMRC is working with more than 150 software suppliers who have said they will provide software for Making Tax Digital for VAT (MTDfV) in time for April 2019. From 1 April 2019, businesses will be mandated to use the MTDfB system to meet their VAT obligations under MTDfV. Only businesses with a taxable turnover above the VAT threshold (currently £85,000) Read the full article…

HMRC has published the latest edition of the Employer Bulletin.   This guidance for employers, and their agents, includes articles on:   Reporting your payroll information accurately and on time Irregular payments and completion of Full Payment Submissions Starter Declaration on a Full Payment Submission (FPS) PAYE Settlement Agreements and Scottish Income Tax National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage Read the full article…

Making Tax Digital comes into play from April 2019, and it would appear that many businesses, and HMRC themselves are very unprepared. From April 2019, those companies for whom Making Tax Digital (MTD) applies, no longer be able to file paper VAT returns, nor will they be able to calculate their VAT position manually and simply enter the ‘Box’ figures via HMRC’s Read the full article…

A No Deal Brexit seems more likely today than yesterday it would appear, but what does that really mean for businesses trading with the EU? The ICAEW (Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales)  tells us HMRC has begun writing to all VAT-registered businesses in the UK that currently only trade within the EU in order to inform and Read the full article…