Spring Statement

by | Mar 28, 2019

Everything at the moment feels rather provisional. A high likelihood this year of some mid-tax year changes, depending on what happens or doesn’t with Brexit. The new digital platform for VAT is going ahead from April 2019. The information needed and the rules...

Budget Day 2018

by | Oct 29, 2018

A great deal of spending was outlined, all worthwhile and much sorely needed, including for example funds going into mental health services, help for small retailers, and some measures to take the sting out of the move to Universal Credit. Pledges to ‘leave more...

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...