Starting out

by | Jun 9, 2016

I’m looking forward to meeting members of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain fellowship scheme. I’ll be speaking to them about some of the tax issues and opportunities facing self-employed musicians at the start of their careers. An interesting and...

Digital returns

by | Mar 16, 2016

Plans have been announced to bring all taxpayers into a new digital system between 2016 and 2020. The promise is that ‘digital accounts’ will be simple, secure, personalised to the taxpayer, and accessible through the digital device of their choice. Some...

Digital – and more – tax returns debated

by | Jan 27, 2016

Parliament debated the petition ‘Scrap plans forcing self employed & small business to do 4 tax returns yearly’ on Monday. See the ‘Digital by 2020’ page at the top for developments to this and other aspects of digitalisation.

Tax returns and the digital age

by | Jan 13, 2016

You may have read that during the Autumn Statement a plan was announced to require all self-employed taxpayers to make four income tax returns per year by 2020. My immediate reaction was that this, in the very scant detail it was mentioned, would not be positive. I...

Digital accounts and future of tax returns

by | Jul 28, 2015

More details are gradually becoming available as to how HMRC’s new ‘digital accounts’ will work. It is planned that every taxpaying individual and business will have online access to their own HMRC ‘account’ showing all the tax(es) they...