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The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise - deadline 30 September
Have you thought about applying for the UK’s most prestigious business award? I’ve been reading up on previous winners of the Queen's Awards for Enterprise and how proud they were to have won. Total Post, a global supplier of mailroom equipment, were International Trade …
AOSS - Come and join us!!
In my blog of 22 June 2015 I asked for volunteers to test our Agent Online Self Serve (AOSS) live service and am pleased that so many of you have successfully joined us already, but we still need more. Recently …
Time to Pay Arrangements – Mandatory Direct Debit
I want to give you advance notice about a change to the way HMRC will expect customers to pay future agreed time to pay arrangements. As you may know we can use discretionary powers to agree to payment of a …
Changes to HMRC's Online Self Assessment documents to support loan and mortgage applications
We've been working closely with the Council of Mortgage Lenders so lenders can consider using online Tax Calculations (SA302) and Tax Year overviews for loan and mortgage purposes. Many Lenders are now operating the new process and the latest edition …
Calling all tax agents - we’re looking for volunteers to test our Agent Online Self Serve
Would you like to be at the forefront of our Agent Online Self Serve (AOSS) live service? AOSS is going from strength to strength and we’ve now successfully moved into Private Beta testing. With an expanded view of employer clients …
Phishing
There’s no doubt that HMRCs online services have been a great success, levels of engagement continue to increase and we are continually looking to improve the experience for you but with increased digital activity comes increased digital risks. There are …
Tax Agent Blog- Welcome back
It has been a while since my last post and I'd like to thank you all for your patience during the election campaign. I'm keen to carry on where we left off, in using this blog to open up communications …
Tax Agents Blog Updates
We will not be posting on this blog or responding to comments for the next few weeks, find out why here. We hope you will join us again after the election.
Digital Support for Agents– Update on Regional Workshops
We’re now about half way through our regional workshops, and it’s been great to meet some of you who read this blog! The events are being well attended and we’re getting some great ideas from our discussions. It’s really interesting …
First manual now available on GOV.UK
Last month I blogged about the move of agents’ guidance to GOV.UK, how to make sure you stay up to date with news and our plans for moving our manuals to GOV.UK later this year. We’ve now published a trial …