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Tax | PAYE tax codes for 2019-20 confirm £12.5K personal allowance

HMRC has issued the latest PAYE tax codes for tax year 2019-20 effective 6 April highlighting the increase in the tax-free personal allowance to £12,500

12 Mar 2019

Tax | Making Tax Digital: tips and advice

The introduction of Making Tax Digital for VAT will transform the way VAT is reported with a requirement to use digital records, but there is some respite as the first filing date is no earlier than 1 July and there is a soft-landing penalty regime in year one. Emma Chesson, head of online at Kreston Reeves, explains how to get started

12 Mar 2019

Tax | VAT Q&A: online traders selling to Germany using Amazon

In our regular VAT Q&A series, Croner Taxwise senior VAT consultant Hilary Budd considers whether online retailers using online marketplaces, eg, Amazon and eBay, to sell their goods must register for VAT in Germany if they want to continue selling to German customers

12 Mar 2019

Tax | Taxing cryptocurrency: does the guidance go far enough?

After four years in the making, HMRC decided to put out its updated cryptocurrency for individuals’ guidance at the end of 2019. Amy Austin, reporter at Accountancy Daily, gets industry reaction to see if anything has changed and whether the new guidance goes far enough

11 Mar 2019

Tax | OECD digital tax for multinationals criticised over double taxation risk

OECD plans to radically change the global tax framework to introduce a unilateral approach to taxation of digital services have been criticised over the broad reach of the proposals, risks of double taxation and potential to be the first step towards turnover tax, reports Sara White

11 Mar 2019

Tax | HMRC’s first probes into corporate tax evasion facilitation

HMRC has confirmed that it has opened its first investigations into the corporate criminal offence of failure to prevent the facilitation of UK tax evasion, using new powers to tackle corporate fraud contained in the Criminal Finances Act, introduced in the wake of the Panama Papers leaks

11 Mar 2019

Tax | One in five VAT-registered businesses in the dark over MTD

With only weeks to go until the planned introduction of Making Tax Digital, nearly one in five businesses above the VAT threshold still know little or nothing about the new requirements, according to the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), which is calling on the government to delay the launch

11 Mar 2019

Tax | Loan charge tax avoidance schemes do not work, warns HMRC

HMRC has issued another warning about schemes and arrangements designed to avoid the 2019 loan charge on disguised remuneration, saying that these schemes do not work

11 Mar 2019

Tax | HMRC sets out exemption process for Making Tax Digital for VAT

HMRC has issued updated guidance outlining the situations in which businesses and individuals can receive exemption from Making Tax Digital, although Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) is warning that VAT registered individuals and businesses have little time to apply for an exemption

7 Mar 2019

Tax | HMRC sets out rules for postponed VAT accounting if no deal Brexit

With weeks until Brexit, HMRC has finally issued guidance for importers and exporters on how a postponed VAT accounting system would work in the event of no deal scendario to prevent businesses having to immediately pay UK VAT on imports from the EU

7 Mar 2019

Tax | HMRC consults on IR35 extension to private sector

HMRC has opened a 12-week consultation into proposals to extend the IR35 off-payroll working rules to the private sector from April 2020, in a bid to enable individuals and organisations to prepare for the changes, which have attracted considerable controversy since they were announced at Budget 2018

6 Mar 2019

Tax | Unexpected VAT consequences of devolved status

Sarah Kay, tax writer at Croner-i, considers an Upper Tribunal case where care services where taxable in England but exempt in Scotland and Northern Ireland due to different VAT rules and a variance in statutory regulation

6 Mar 2019

Tax | HMRC crackdown on estate agents over money laundering failures

Estate agents have been hit with unannounced inspections as part of a week-long crackdown on money laundering in the property industry, while national chain Countrywide has been fined a record £215,000 for breaches of the regulations, HMRC has revealed

5 Mar 2019

Tax | Nunn: HMRC caves on copy and paste for MTD year one

HMRC’s decision to allow companies a soft landing without penalties for Making Tax Digital for VAT is welcome but there is still much confusion about the software requirements for companies, says Yvette Nunn CTA, owner partner at Berkeley Associates

5 Mar 2019

Tax | VAT Q&A: beneficial quirks of cash accounting

In this week’s Q&A Vivienne Scott, senior VAT consultant at Croner Taxwise, raises awareness of some beneficial rules of the cash accounting scheme

5 Mar 2019

Tax | Editor’s comment: 25 days and counting

The deadlines for Brexit and the overhaul of VAT reporting under Making Tax Digital are uncomfortably close, while the risk of reverting overnight on 29 March to third country status for exports and audits, are just some of the bigger unknowns for business, tax advisers and accountants, says Sara White, editor of Accountancy Daily

4 Mar 2019