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If you are thinking about registering voluntarily for VAT, or hovering around the £90,000 compulsory registration threshold, the new VAT Registration Estimator tool from HMRC could be for you.

If you’ve made money from breeding or selling cats, dogs and other animals, HMRC could be on your tail.

The latest tax gap figures show a black hole of more than £3 billion for PAYE. This gap is being put down to employer errors.

Preferential tax rules for furnished holiday lettings (FHLs) end in April 2025, removing any tax incentive to offer short-term holiday lets, rather than letting residential property on a longer basis.

Employers boosting their workforce — even temporarily — need to remember the pensions automatic enrolment rules.

HMRC offers Time to Pay (TTP) where a business or individual is struggling to make a tax payment because of genuine financial hardship or personal difficulties.

Subcontractor verification is under HMRC’s spotlight.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered her Budget on Wednesday 30 October 2024. She pledged to ‘invest, invest, invest’ to drive growth and ‘restore economic stability’. Only time will tell if her approach is successful.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered her Budget on Wednesday 30 October 2024. She pledged to ‘invest, invest, invest’ to drive growth and ‘restore economic stability’. Only time will tell if her approach is successful.

The annual Creative Industries Statistics Commentary has recently been released, covering the various ‘Tax Reliefs’ up to March 2023.

Get ready for change. From April 2026, it’s expected that employers will be required to report and pay Income Tax and Class 1A National Insurance contributions on benefits in kind in real time, via payroll software.

Temporary delay buys more time for preparation. Earlier this year, a new Code of Practice on the fair and transparent distribution of tips was published and laid before Parliament. It will have legal effect under the long-awaited Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023.