Following the Bank of England’s reduction of the base rate of interest to 5% on 1 August, HMRC has finally announced they will follow suit,
It’s all change at HMRC as to how tax refunds will be processed and issued: HMRC has stopped posting out automatic cheques for tax refunds,
Over the last year UK savers have finally been in a position to earn some interest on their savings, but how is interest income taxed, and how can you maximise the tax free element of what you receive? 🤔
If you meet certain criteria or have flexibility in how you structure your income, then you can potentially enjoy up to £18,570 of your income completely tax-free!! 🥳
Are You Struggling to Meet Your Tax Obligations?
More than 30,000 UK businesses were involved in some kind of insolvency action in 2023, which was an increase of more than 50% compared with 2021 according to an article in the Guardian earlier this year.
And the economic outlook would suggest that despite the fact that we are no longer in recession, 2024 and 2025 will be a challenging year for UK small business.
With this in mind we have prepared the following guide and associated video to help you understand what your options are with regards to agreeing what is known as a ‘Time to Pay’ arrangement with HMRC.
💷 So, the FSB are in the process of lobbying HMRC to increase the VAT registration threshold to £100,000 It’s been at its current level
Advisory fuel rates are changing from quarter beginning 1 December 2023 for certain vehicles!
The rate for electric cars has been reduced to 9p per mile and hybrid cars are treated as petrol or diesel for these purposes. This reflects the slight decrease to electricity costs over recent months.
Other changes can be found in the main table
Advisory fuel rates are changing from quarter beginning 1 September 2023 for certain vehicles!
The rate for electric cars will be 10p per mile and hybrid cars are treated as petrol or diesel for these purposes. This further increase reflects the higher electricity costs faces by energy consumers throughout the country…
This article explores the ‘associated companies rules’ which came into effect alongside the new corporation tax rules from 1 April 2023.
HMRC have just announced that they will raise interest rates on late payments by a further 0.25% from 31 May 2023 to 7%. Repayment rates will also increase to 3.5%
Jeremy Hunt’s first Budget announced on Wednesday 15 March 2023 may have been a bit of a damp squib for small business, but after the chaos of Autumn 2022, for accountants, tax advisors, economists and software companies around the country I suspect there was a huge sigh of relief.
So rather than complain about the lack of anything interesting to talk about, perhaps we should remember that sometimes a little bit of stability goes a long way!
If you were offered interest on your savings at 1168% you’d snap my hand off, wouldn’t you? Even 100% return on investment would be great
What is the Construction Industry Scheme (CIS)? The Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) is a set of rules and regulations that govern the way tax is
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