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Making a claim under the Self-employed Income Support Scheme

As we have written previously, if you are self-employed and qualify for the Self-employment Income Support Scheme you will receive a cash grant from HMRC based on 80% of profits, up to £2,500 per month. The initial grant will be for the three

VAT scrapped on e-publications

It was announced as part of the Spring Budget measures that the zero rate of VAT would apply to all e-books from 1 December 2020. The date of this change has now been brought forward and came into effect on 1 May 2020. This will be a welcome boost to

Gift Aid for cancelled charity events

HMRC has published new guidance on the scheme for charities that have had events cancelled due to coronavirus.

The Gift Aid scheme allows charities or Community Amateur Sports Clubs (CASC) to take a taxpayer’s donation and, provided all the

Treasury instructions to HMRC re SEISS

On 30 April 2020, HM Treasury published its Direction to HMRC giving statutory footing for the Self-employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS). The document makes it clear that one of the conditions for using the scheme is that the self-employed must

Minimum hours for Tax Credits

It has been confirmed that the minimum weekly hours requirement to be eligible for tax credits has been temporarily suspended because of coronavirus. Tax Credits can provide top-up payments to those on low incomes.

Under normal circumstances, you

Furlough scheme extended to 30 June 2020

The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme will now be available until at least 30 June 2020. Payments under the scheme can be backdated to 1 March 2020 for employees who met the eligibility criteria on that date.

The scheme is designed to help employers

Self-employed Income Support Scheme

If you are self-employed and qualify for the Self-employment Income Support Scheme you will receive a cash grant from HMRC based on 80% of profits, up to £2,500 per month. The initial grant will be for the three months, from 1 March through to

Changes to holiday pay arrangements

Some important changes to holiday pay arrangements came into effect from 6 April 2020. This has seen the reference period for calculating holiday pay increase from 12 to 52 weeks. This change affects workers with no fixed or regular hours. It means

Aggressive rent collection banned

The government has announced the introduction of temporary new measures to protect commercial tenants on UK high streets from aggressive rent collection and closure during the Coronavirus pandemic.

These measures will see statutory demands and

HMRC’s tax app

A free HMRC tax app is available and offers some useful functionality. The app has recently been updated.

The APP can be used to see:

your tax code and National Insurance number
an estimate of the tax you need to pay
your income and

Deferral of VAT payments update

It was announced at the end of March that VAT registered businesses have the option to defer any VAT payments due between 20 March 2020 and 30 June 2020.

HMRC’s guidance for the deferral of VAT payments has been updated and states that you can

Reclaiming statutory sick pay

Under the Coronavirus Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme, small-and medium-sized businesses and employers will be able to reclaim Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) paid for sickness absence due to COVID-19. The online service to reclaim SSP is not available

Expenses and benefits filing deadlines

The deadline for submitting the 2019-20 forms P11D, P11D(b) and P9D is 6 July 2020. Employees must also be provided with a copy of the information relating to them on these forms by the same date. P11D forms are used to provide information to HMRC on

New edition of the employer bulletin

HMRC has released the latest issue of the 'Employer Bulletin' publication which includes summaries of recent changes and updates that have been announced which are relevant to employers and agents.

The topics covered in the latest edition

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