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Repay your employer for private fuel

Where an employee with a company car is provided with fuel for their own private use by their employers, the default position is that the employee is required to pay the car fuel benefit charge. The charge is determined by reference to the CO2 rating

Do you employ an au pair?

There are special rules that need to be taken into account if you employ an au pair in your home. This is because au pairs are not usually considered as workers or employees and are not entitled to the National Minimum Wage or paid holidays.

An au

Is HMRC’s message real or fake?

HMRC has issued an updated version of their online guidance on Genuine HMRC contact and recognising phishing emails and texts. The guidance provides a current list of genuine messages from HMRC. This includes email messages, text messages and

Income excluded from UK property business

Most of our readers will be aware of the £1,000 property income allowance that came into effect on 6 April 2017. This allowance applies to income from property (including foreign property). If your annual gross property income is £1,000

Person liable to pay tax on post-cessation receipts

There are special rules for the taxation of post-cessation receipts, those received after a trade has ceased. The legislation clearly states that the person who receives or is entitled to the post-cessation receipt is the person who is subject to

What is a post-cessation expense?

There are special rules for the taxation of post-cessation receipts and post-cessation expenses. This article explains how, or if, post cessation expenses can be claimed.

In order to be an allowable post-cessation expense, the trade must have

VAT grouping

There are special VAT rules that allow two or more corporate bodies to be treated as a single taxable person for VAT purposes known as a VAT group.

Advantages of group registration

The representative member accounts for any tax due on supplies

Holiday pay campaign

The government has launched its first holiday pay advertising campaign aimed at encouraging workers to understand their rights and employers to understand their legal obligations in relation to holiday pay. It estimates that, in the UK, 1.8 million

Tax Diary March/April 2019

1 April 2019 – Due date for Corporation Tax due for the year ended 30 June 2018.
19 April 2019 – PAYE and NIC deductions due for month ended 5 April 2019. (If you pay your tax electronically the due date is 22 April 2019)
19 April 2019 – Filing

Keep abreast of Brexit news

As the Brexit date fast approaches, it seems the only thing we can say with any certainty is that uncertainty continues to plague the issue of our leaving the EU. The negotiations on the terms of the UK’s exit from the EU are unresolved and there are

Present tax-free company benefits

The list of company benefits that can be provided tax-free to employees is quite short. However, some of the benefits that can be provided include the following:

Meals: Free or subsidised meals in a staff canteen where meals are provided for all

Changes to VAT IT systems if no-deal Brexit

In a letter being sent to businesses across the country, HMRC has published the following information on the effect a no-deal Brexit would have on changes to VAT IT systems.
We have reproduced below a summary from the letter of the main

What is a finance lease?

The definition of a finance lease can be difficult to pin down. In legal form a finance lease is just another lease – the legal ownership of the asset lies with the lessor and the lessee only has the right to use the asset.
However, in commercial

Removing your home address from the public register

Since April 2018 company directors and other eligible people such as company secretaries, people with significant control (PSC) and LLP members can apply to remove their personal addresses from the UK’s official company register on Companies House.

Full EU Settlement Scheme roll-out

The government has laid a Statement of Changes to the Immigration Rules implementing the full opening of the EU Settlement Scheme from 30 March 2019. The scheme will apply regardless of whether there is a Brexit deal or not.

The scheme will allow

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