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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Hello, I’m Ruth Bulteel and I work for Jenny as the Head of the Agent Stakeholder team. I’ll be joining her in blogging to you on a regular basis. You probably know that HMRC has a series of 20 free, …
Yes! We absolutely can. I was at an event organised by one of the agents’ professional bodies a couple of weeks ago, sitting next to the ex-president of one of these organisations. He had a problem he’d been unsuccessfully chasing …
Hi, I’m Jenny Cowles. I work as a Deputy Director in HMRC, leading the Agent Strategy, Stakeholder and Engagement Team. If you are a tax agent authorised to act on behalf of our customers I hope we’ll be able to …
