Agent Update: issue 79 – Tax agent blog
Agent Update: issue 79 – Tax agent blog
Agent Update 79 is available now and contains the latest articles, updates, help and support for the entire agent community.
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 …
Tax Agent Strategy
It might be winter outside but there’s a spring in our step after a very productive period of work on the Agent Strategy. There’s still work to do but I wanted to give you a quick update on where we …
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 …
Proposed legislative changes for Self Assessment
As we move into December thoughts start to turn to Christmas, though of course the retail industry has been celebrating it since October. And for tax agents it is the run up the Self Assessment filing deadline at the end …
Quarterly meetings and fixing bugs
I recently had a week of important quarterly meetings with agent representatives. It can be a logistical challenge to get all the papers and presenters in the same room at the same time. So we group the meetings because some of our agent rep …
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 …
What do you think about HMRC Agent Toolkits?
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, …
Can we help?
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 …