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Make sure your business is Cyber Streetwise
HMRC is supporting a new Government campaign that helps you to improve your performance online and keep important information safe. Cyber Streetwise offers essential tips and advice on a range of online security issues including software updates, passwords and customer …
Business Income Manual updated
...BIM. We have updated those too, to make sure they all link to the latest material. The BIM hyperlinks in the agents’ toolkits give you access to more detailed background...
Tax return agents’ ‘copycat’ websites
...signing up for. Whilst people are entirely free to employ a tax return agent, HMRC does not sanction or in any way approve such sites. And we will take firm...
Spamalot
It’s now mid January and one new year’s resolution we don’t want to break is our commitment to make sure we reach you with all our HMRC email notifications. We...
The National Minimum Wage
...employee – more than four times the fine today.” HMRC administers and enforces the NMW on behalf of the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS). In this blog, I...
Recognising the future relationship between agents and HMRC
...we become more digitally based. HMRC will be offering customers more and more online and mobile services and tools. More customers will be able to self-serve and may choose to...
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
...the team recently had to check over 150 links from the Toolkits to the guidance to ensure they all still led to the appropriate pages, all within a week –...
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
...response rate. We’re analysing the results and I’ll let you know what we find. Today I’d like to highlight a different type of help HMRC provides. One of the things...