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Moving and improving: HMRC website’s transition to GOV.UK
As you may have heard, HMRC’s web guidance and tools are moving to the cross-Government GOV.UK website, where customers will be able to access all Government information and services in one place. GOV.UK provides a clearer, faster way for people …
Agent Online Self Serve and Identity Assurance
The introduction of new digital services for agents through Agent Online Self Serve (AOSS) is closely linked to the cross-government Identity Assurance (IDA) programme. IDA will enable people and organisations to let government departments know, safely and securely, that …
Budget 2014
On Thursday 19 March, the Chancellor of the Exchequer presented his fifth Budget Statement to Parliament. All information published by the government relating to the budget can be found on the Budget 2014 page of GOV.UK. Following public feedback from …
Digital Self Assessment: a better service for agents
What is Digital Self Assessment? Even though nearly 85 per cent of Self Assessment (SA) customers file returns online, we still send out 44 million letters a year. HMRC’s new Digital SA service will replace these letters with digital …
Employment Allowance
You may shortly receive enquiries from clients about the new Employment Allowance. Up to 1.25 million businesses and charities will benefit from it - and around 450,000 will not have to pay any Class 1 NICs at all in 2014-15. …
HMRC Agent Research
In the last few days, you might have received a letter signed by Business Tax Director General, Jim Harra. As the letter explains, HMRC has commissioned independent research company TNS BMRB to carry out a survey for us. We want …
Agent Update Publication
Hello, I’m Andria Barber and I work in HMRC’s Agent Stakeholder team as the editor of ‘Agent Update’ which is published on our website every two months. It brings agent information together in one place, so that you can …
Agent Account Manager Service
Why not use our Agent Account Managers (AAM) service to get in touch with HMRC and resolve your client-specific issues? AAMs are there to help tax agents and advisors who have been unable to find answers through the usual HMRC …
Tax helpline launched to support people affected by flooding
On 12 February HMRC launched a new telephone helpline for anyone affected by the recent flooding, to enable people to get fast, practical help and advice on a wide range of tax problems they may be facing. HMRC will also: …
Record breaking year for filing SA returns
This year, a record-breaking 8.48 million returns were filed online, representing 84.5% of all returns received. This meant that, of the 10.74 million tax returns due for the tax year 2012 to 2013, 93.4% met the SA deadlines for paper …