Included in this month’s article:

• Lower stamp duty land tax threshold in place until October.
• Employer costs increase as furlough scheme winds down.
• Treasury seeks feedback on business rates revaluations.
• Pensions tex traps catch out thousands more savers.

Included in this months article:

• Sweeping VAT reforms in the EU will affect the UK’s online retailers
• Families hit with big bills after believing gifts would not be taxed
• OTS considers bringing the end of the tax year forward
• UK tax incentive ‘fails to deliver extra R&D spending’

Included in this month’s article:

• Deadline approaches for SME Brexit support grant
• Employers told to issue childcare voucher reminder
• Directors bank mandatory climate credential disclosure plan
• HMRC seeks to remove VAT repayment Supplement

Included in this month’s article:

• Super-deduction tempts 51% of manufacturers to invest
• VAT-registered firms start using digital links under MTD
• HMRC rolls out new measures to ‘Tackle CIS abuse’
• Workplace pension contributions bounce back after slump

Included in this month’s article:

• Three month extension for business rates holiday in England
• New recovery loan scheme replaces previous COVID-19 loans
• VAT-registration and deregistration thresholds frozen until 2024/25
• Treasury issues guidance on the final two self-employed grants

Included in this month’s artice:

• Opt-in to VAT deferral new payment scheme by 31 March 2021
• Personal allowance and higher-rate threshold to increase 0.5%
• Changes to prompt-payment code aim to end late payments
• Record number miss self-assessment filing deadline due to COVID-19

Included in this months article:

• Hardest-hit businesses offered new government grants of up to £9,000
• Pre-Christmas furlough extension stems the tide of redundancies
• Record number of small businesses ‘set to close for good in 2021’
• COVID-19 sees retail sales slump to a 25-year low in 2020

Included in this month’s article:

• Annual investment allowance remains at £1m until 2022
• HMRC issues last reminder for 2019/20 personal tax returns
• One-year freeze for business rates multiplier in England
• National living wage to increase alongside age threshold fall

INCLUDED IN THIS MONTH’S ARTICLE:

• VAT-REGISTERED TRADERS URGED TO PREPARE FOR LIFE AFTER BREXIT
• FURLOUGH SCHEME EXTENDS UK-WIDE UNTIL THE END OF MARCH
• GOVERNMENT BODY URGES CAPITAL GAINS TAX OVERHAUL
• SELF-EMPLOYED FEAR TAX RETURNS MAY AFFECT FOURTH SEISS CLAIM

INCLUDED IN THIS MONTH’S ARTICLE:

– GROUP SLAMS LATEST TAXABLE GRANTS FOR THE SELF-EMPLOYED
– IMPROVED JOB SUPPORT SCHEME OPENS FOR EMPLOYERS
– SUNAK HINTS AT SPRING TAX HIKES TO ‘BALANCE THE BOOKS’
– THREE IN FIVE BOUNCE-BACK LOANS MAY NEVER BE REPAID, WATCHDOG CLAIMS

Included in this month’s article:

• Commission set to recommend national living wage freeze
• Chancellor reveals new support measures amid second-wave fears
• Tax group calls for extension to the annual investment allowance
• Fraudulent furlough claims or those paid in error cost £3.5BN

INCLUDED IN THIS MONTH’S ARTICLE:

• VIDEO-WITNESSED WILLS BECOME LEGAL IN ENGLAND AND WALES
• BUSINESSES CLAIM LATE PAYMENTS CRISIS DEEPENS DURING LOCKDOWN
• FURLOUGHED WORKERS GET REDUNDANCY PAY PROTECTION
• FIRMS ‘UNABLE TO PREPARE’ FOR END OF BREXIT TRANSITION PERIOD