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Making Tax Digital – sanctions for late submission and late payment
We recently published a further consultation relating to Making Tax Digital. Making Tax Digital – sanctions for late submission and late payment is open for you to respond until 11 June. The consultation seeks views on three possible models for …
Talking Points – What’s New in 2017-18 for Employers
As usual, there have been changes to PAYE tax for the start of the new tax year. I thought you would find it helpful to receive an update of this for you and your clients. This week we are running …
Resolve Your Issue with the Agent Account Managers
I have been looking at the wide variety of issues that are received by our Agent Account Managers (AAMs). The AAMs provide an issue resolution service for tax agents, and advisers, who are unable to find answers to client-specific problems …
Talking Points - Annual tax on Enveloped Dwellings (ATED)
Did you know that HMRC has recently released a new online service for ATED. The service is now open for taxpayers and agents to register to use the service and for taxpayers to appoint their agent online. The ability to …
Talking Points - Paying the right amount of tax through PAYE
In Agent Update 58 we told you that from May 2017 HMRC will improve the way it uses the real time information you give us to make automatic adjustments to PAYE tax codes as they happen - rather than waiting until …
Don’t take the bait, be cyber aware
A friend of mine recently received a fake HMRC email and I have to say, it looked incredibly realistic. Scammers are using increasingly sophisticated methods to spoof legitimate HMRC communication with information that appears both genuine and relevant. However, …
Talking Points Making Tax Digital and Agent Services
Welcome to my latest blog about the regular Talking Points meetings we run to provide you with updated information. This week we are running meetings on two different subjects for you. The first of the programmes ‘Making Tax Digital’, will …
Registration for payrolling benefits and expenses
If your clients are considering payrolling expenses and benefits, they will need to register with our payrolling benefits and expenses online service. They will have to do this before the start of the first tax year for which they want to …
Taking Points Intellectual Property
Do you know how ideas and inventions can be protected? This week our Talking Points session will focus on intellectual property. It will provide you with a brief overview and also focus on patents and how to protect something unique …
Annual Tax on Enveloped Dwellings
I would like to tell you about the new Annual Tax on Enveloped Dwellings (ATED) online service. As you may know, ATED is payable mainly by companies that own UK residential property valued at more than £500,000. However, did you know that, although …