With the new tax year upon us, we know that this is a busy time of year for customers who use the Construction Industry Scheme (CIS). Here are our top five tips for you.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …