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Agent Update Publication
Hello, I’m Andria Barber and I work in HMRC’s Agent Stakeholder team as the editor of ‘Agent Update’ which is published on our website every two months. It brings agent information together in one place, so that you can …
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Agent Account Manager Service
Why not use our Agent Account Managers (AAM) service to get in touch with HMRC and resolve your client-specific issues? AAMs are there to help tax agents and advisors who have been unable to find answers through the usual HMRC …
Record breaking year for filing SA returns
This year, a record-breaking 8.48 million returns were filed online, representing 84.5% of all returns received. This meant that, of the 10.74 million tax returns due for the tax year 2012 to 2013, 93.4% met the SA deadlines for paper …
Make sure your business is Cyber Streetwise
HMRC is supporting a new Government campaign that helps you to improve your performance online and keep important information safe. Cyber Streetwise offers essential tips and advice on a range of online security issues including software updates, passwords and customer …
Tax return agents’ ‘copycat’ websites
With the 31 January deadline for filing SA returns fast approaching, the media has been asking us for our view on ‘copycat websites’, where companies offer to file returns for customers in return for large fees - sometimes up to …
Recognising the future relationship between agents and HMRC
Happy New Year, the start of the New Year is a busy period for agents and for us in HMRC, with the Self Assessment deadline at the end of the month, so 2013 already feels like a distant memory. But, …
Experience of working in a high street agent for HMRC trainees
Back in the Spring I asked contacts within the larger representative bodies to help me find places for our tax technical trainees to experience a day in the life of a high street agent. These trainees spend most of their …
Local Working Together
I’m Jill Hawkins and I lead the ‘E’ within ASSET – the Engagement Team. I’ll be letting you know about the activities of my team as they engage with the agent community across the country. One of my team’s responsibilities …
HMRC’s webinars
In my first blog I highlighted our recent survey about agents’ use of HMRC’s agent toolkits. This has now finished and I’m pleased to say we had a really good response rate. We’re analysing the results and I’ll let you know what we …
CIS repayments agent workshop
Last Thursday I attended the agent workshop on CIS (Construction Industry Scheme) Repayments. In addition to all the HMRC specialists, there was a good attendance from agents, some representing their professional rep bodies and some independent practitioners representing their local Working Together groups. They …