Scam contact

by | Oct 28, 2018

Bogus ‘HMRC’ emails offering tax refunds have been going round for some while. More recently, telephone scams have started up. As one of my clients has recently received one of these calls, which was very unpleasant even though they saw through it, I...

Spring Statement 2018

by | Mar 13, 2018

An overview of the Chancellor’s future plans. Not the Budget. And not a great deal about tax, other than a proposal to bring in a tax on disposable plastics. This follows the trend of the plastic-bag charge already in place. No immediate changes to the tax rates...

Budget Day

by | Nov 22, 2017

We are into the new Budget calendar. Instead of a spring Budget, we now have an Autumn Budget with a spring statement from next year to pre-announce some changes. The revised calendar is potentially good news, with more notice of changes for the next tax year going...

Making Tax Digital – small steps

by | Jul 13, 2017

A new and longer-term timetable for the Making Tax Digital project has been announced today. This is excellent news and seems a much more realistic timescale. Currently, 2019 will signal the first move into the digital regime, but only for businesses trading about the...

The briefest of Acts

by | May 7, 2017

The Finance Act rushed in before Parliament dissolved ready for the snap election was very, very short. It had the bare minimum of information needed to keep tax running. By law, if Parliament closes with no Finance Act in place, all power to tax is lost. There was...