Auto enrolment becoming business as usual
Every employer in the UK must now put certain staff into a pension scheme and contribute towards it. This is called ‘aut...
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OTS review of replacing capital allowances with depreciation
Following on from the meeting with the OTS to discuss unincorporated businesses (reported in December’s Technical Newsde...
SA 302 tax calculations
HMRC recently raised concerns with professional bodies that they are still receiving significant call volumes from agent...
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Autumn Budget 2017: A LITRG summary of the Autumn Budget for those on low incomes
In July’s Technical Newsdesk, Gillian Wrigley and Kelly Sizer talked about some of the features of the marriage allowanc...
Autumn Budget 2017 – the new fiscal timetable
The Bill includes eight measures consulted on in draft, of which, as reported in previous editions of Technical Newsdesk...
A greater tax enforcement role for the Gangmasters Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA)?
The GLAA is a Non-Departmental Public Body working to protect vulnerable and exploited workers.
The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group report on self-employment and universal credit
Universal credit is gradually replacing working tax credit and child tax credit, so advisers whose clients currently cla...
Devolved taxes in Wales: update
The inaugural board meeting of the Welsh Revenue Authority ‘WRA’ (Awdurdod Cyllid Cymru) took place in Treforest on 18 O...
OTS review of replacing capital allowances with depreciation: unincorporated businesses
In its review of the corporation tax computation, the OTS identified capital allowances as a major source of complexity,...
Changes to paying tax: at the Post Office and by personal credit card
Paying at the Post Office The Transcash service at the Post Office is being withdrawn from 15 December 2017 and, as a r...