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We have a lot of information available on our website to help people understand umbrella companies and manually check whether pay and taxes are being dealt with properly.

Here are our successes for the quarter ending 30 September 2024 in which the CIOT was instrumental in effecting change and occasions where the CIOT’s contribution was singled out.

Making Tax Digital for Income Tax Self-Assessment (MTD ITSA) is now less than 18 months away, with taxpayers with income over £50,000 mandated from 6 April 2026.

HMRC customer service levels have been a longstanding and continued concern for our members.

The Scottish government is planning to publish a tax strategy alongside the draft Budget for 2025/26, which is expected to be on 4 December 2024.

In July, the government published draft legislation to remove the specific tax treatment for income and gains from furnished holiday lets (FHLs) from April 2025.

The 2014 salaried members rules (‘the rules’) remove the self-employment presumption of members whom HMRC believe are effectively employees.

All countries have a fiscal culture, that is to say social norms around paying taxes and ‘tax morale’ – or how citizens feel – about paying taxes.

The CIOT welcomed the government’s intention to publish a roadmap for business taxation and to consult on this, noting the success of the 2010 corporate tax roadmap.

The CIOT used HM Treasury’s call for 2024 Budget representations to outline our concerns on some of the definitions contained within TCGA 1992 s 162.