An interesting couple of articles in the Daily Telegraph today http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/tax/11352114/Millions-with-multiple-incomes-at-risk-of-shock-tax- and http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/tax/11349387/Six-HMRC-offices-chased-me-for-5000-I-didnt-owe.html. HMRC’s assertion in the article is that 98% of codes are accurate: how do they know? if people… read more →
The Government has today unveiled the brand name for the free pension advice service that will be available to those wanting to find out about their options under new pension… read more →
With the migration to .GOV.uk now complete, you may be wondering how on earth you keep track of HMRC announcements since the disappearance of the ‘What’ new’ page. If you… read more →
Regulation 3 of The Deduction from Wages (Limitation) Regulations 2014 came into force yesterday (8th January 2015) and amend Regulation 16 of the 1998 Working Time Regulations such that paid holiday… read more →
Employer guidance has now been published (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/employer-national-insurance-contributions-for-under-21s/abolition-of-employer-national-insurance-contributions-for-under-21s-employer-guide–2) on the abolition of employer NICs for employees aged under 21 that is effective from 6th April 2015. Employer NICs will not be… read more →
HMRC have this week laid amendments to the PAYE regulations (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/2/contents/made) to remove the requirement to complete the questions that were for many years part of the P35 end of year return and… read more →
The Chancellor announced on 17th December 2014 to the Treasury Select Committee that the final Budget of this parliament will be presented on 18th March 2015 with parliament dissolved on… read more →
Phil Pavitt, former head of IT at HMRC tells Computing about the issues with developing front end systems but without investing in the back office legacy systems that use the… read more →
In October 2014, HMRC announced to software developers that it would reverse its stance on taking employee address changes from employers, click here for more…http://www.theaccessgroup.com/2014/11/3/what-do-hmrc-do-with-the-employee-data-we-report.aspx
16m taxpayers will from 3rd November start to receive tax summaries in the post or online related to the 2013/14 tax year. See https://www.gov.uk/government/news/personal-tax-summaries-seven-things-to-know for an idea of what they… read more →