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August 2026
- ISA Reforms on the way
- State pensioners receiving new 'earnings limit' tax codes
- Retirees reclaiming larger pension tax refunds
- Making Tax Digital (MTD) uptake is far behind requirements
- August Questions and Answers
- August Key Dates
July 2026
- HMRC Inheritance Tax Enquiries Hit Six-Year High
- Summer attractions see VAT reduced to 5%
- Increase in Mileage Allowance
- Reminder: check if you are eligible for the Employment Allowance
- July Questions and Answers
- July Key Dates
June 2026
- Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Income Tax - deadline reminders
- HMRC rejects almost half of Making Tax Digital exemptions
- Pensions to be included in IHT calculations from April 2027
- Drop in tax relief on VCTs may affect economic growth
- June Questions and Answers
- June Key Dates
May 2026
- Massive council tax hikes for second homes in Scotland
- Stamp Duty nets £307m more in the year since its change
- Chancellor planning tax changes to attract wealthy back to the UK
- 178,000 taxpayers missed out on rebates sent by cheque
- May Questions and Answers
- May Key Dates
April 2026
- Government is urged to scrap 'arbitrary' inheritance tax system
- Gulf expats worried about tax bill after UK return
- Chancellor concedes there was a valid argument for not increasing job taxes
- HMRC tax receipts and National Insurance contributions report
- April Questions and Answers
- April Key Dates
March 2026
- HMRC issues Making Tax Digital reminder to workers
- HMRC issuing pensioners with new tax codes for winter fuel repayments
- High earners actively avoiding crossing the £100k income threshold
- HMRC is increasing tax investigations
- March Questions and Answers
- March Key Dates
- Spring Statement 2026
February 2026
- Government climbdown on inheritance tax for family firms
- Government rejects call to raise pensioners' tax-free allowance
- Surge in Cash ISA Deposits
- Claims that the Chancellor's U-turns cost £3bn of headroom
- February Questions and Answers
- February Key Dates
January 2026
- HMRC alert for the self-employed ahead of January deadline
- Chancellor clarifies tax change on state pension
- Bank of England at odds with Chancellor's claims on impact of tax rises
- 300,000 workers affected by scrapping of work-from-home tax relief
- January Questions and Answers
- January Key Dates
December 2025
- Top earners see an increase in HMRC investigations
- Treasury dealt blow as thousands of EV drivers use tax loophole
- Many risk paying tax twice due to multiple HMRC letter demands
- Snail farms discovered in London offices in tax avoidance scheme
- December Questions and Answers
- December Key Dates
- Autumn Budget 2025
November 2025
- The Chancellor dismisses wealth tax as 'mistake'
- How the Chancellor could raise money without taxing the rich
- Tax evasion crackdown on dodgy employers
- HMRC warns home workers about rogue tax advisors
- November Questions and Answers
- November Key Dates
October 2025
- Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Income Tax starts in six months
- 100,000 HMRC accounts hit by scammers
- Government facing legal challenges over 'family farms tax'
- The Autumn Budget - potential tax changes
- October Questions and Answers
- October Key Dates
September 2025
- A new '10p tax' suggested to the Chancellor... by a billionaire
- Revealed - UK's biggest deliberate tax defaulters
- Chancellor considers a new property tax to replace stamp duty
- Car tax update sees a 400% hike in costs for some
- September Questions and Answers
- September Key Dates
August 2025
- Just how many of the super-rich are fleeing the UK over tax hikes?
- Billions paid into cash ISAs
- Tax raid pulls in £300 million less than predicted
- "Time for a wealth tax”, say the rich.
- August Questions and Answers
- August Key Dates
July 2025
- Inheritance tax break that could lure expats back to the UK
- The Government refuses to increase the annual Personal Allowance to £20,000
- Reeves under pressure to create wealth tax
- Reeves urged to launch tax raid on landlords
- July Questions and Answers
- July Key Dates
June 2025
- HMRC criticised for time taken to process tax refunds
- Is it time to use up this year’s cash ISA Allowance?
- Changes to notifications by employers to operate PAYE on a proportion of a globally mobile employee’s income and Overseas Workday Relief
- HMRC’s ‘Help for Hustles’ Campaign
- June Questions and Answers
- June Key Dates
May 2025
- Tax rises inevitable amid tariff trade war?
- HMRC could get new powers in tax avoidance clampdown
- Financial reporting: major changes for business sizes take effect
- Chancellor adds more fuel to ISA reform fire
- May Questions and Answers
- May Key Dates
April 2025
- Several tax-related changes to take effect
- Tax commitment finally set to change after 25 years
- Hiring veterans: National Insurance relief extended for another year
- Tax break scheme for second homeowners axed
- April Questions and Answers
- April Key Dates
- Spring Statement 2025
March 2025
- Tax changes expected as pressure grows on public finances
- Taxman collects more than £400m in interest charges
- Businesses reminded over final payment submissions
- A million taxpayers miss filing deadline
- March Questions and Answers
- March Key Dates
- Several tax-related changes to take effect
February 2025
- Spring Statement announced: more tax changes to come?
- Millions at risk of fines as Self-Assessment deadline looms
- Employment Allowance: common errors by businesses revealed
- Changes for Companies House address rules
- February Questions and Answers
- February Key Dates
January 2025
- Tax changes to progress to law in the new year
- Self-Assessment scammers warning as January deadline nears
- Treasury coffers swell from IHT bills - even before imminent reforms set in
- Stamp Duty tax receipt trends revealed in new reports
- January Questions and Answers
- January Key Dates
December 2024
- Capital Gains: Investors’ Relief limit cut among changes revealed
- Changes to Alternative financing tax rules
- Christmas company parties – cause for cheer
- Tax compliance rules for charities to change
- December Questions and Answers
- December Key Dates
November 2024
- Millionaire business owners: increase CGT to raise £14bn
- Many possible changes could be arriving for IHT
- Changes to high earners for Self-Assessment
- New rules for businesses on employee hours data delayed
- November Questions and Answers
- November Key Dates
- Autumn Budget 2024
October 2024
- Mounting speculation of Inheritance Tax changes to come
- A new flat rate for pension tax relief? Budget changes expected
- Loophole for fund managers that chancellor called 'absurd' set to be closed
- Seasonal staff warning from HMRC
- October Questions and Answers
- October Key Dates
September 2024
- Axe falls on tax benefits for Furnished Holiday Lets
- Are we going back to the future for CGT?
- Digital platform rules: new guidance ahead of first report deadline
- UK and Ecuador announce tax treaty
- September Questions and Answers
- September Key Dates
August 2024
- What does the new Government mean for tax?
- Could a pension-related IHT proposal help raise money for new Government?
- 95,000 get £100 fines for late filing – despite no tax being owed
- New tool may help businesses better understand VAT registration implications
- August Questions and Answers
- August Key Dates
July 2024
- Battle lines drawn on tax – but is there a ‘conspiracy of silence?’
- Budget will loom following General Election result
- Tax lost to error and ‘failure’ rises – four years on from digital tax
- As Euro 2024 kicks off, tax spotlight takes a Football focus
- July Questions and Answers
- July Key Dates
June 2024
- Spotlight falls on potential tax changes as General Election called
- July tax credits deadline prompts payment warning
- New Scottish tax sparks petition to recall powers
- HMRC issues ‘tax refund companies’ alert
- June Questions and Answers
- June Key Dates
May 2024
- Treasury collects £10bn extra in Business taxes
- Tax penalty fears for pensioners as millions ‘dragged into net’
- New employment rights kick in
- HMRC helpline axe saga rumbles on as closure looms again
- May Questions and Answers
- May Key Dates
April 2024
- Spring Statement 2024
- Spring Finance Bill sets shape for tax changes to come
- Plans to close HMRC helpline for half a year halted
- Bumper IHT receipts set to be new record high
- Online live funerals receive VAT exemption
- April Questions and Answers
- April Key Dates
March 2024
- £38million of tax overpayments refunded
- Budget to bring tax and mortgage changes?
- Scammers target self-employed with fake tax refund promise
- Record Self-Assessment returns, but estimated 1m miss deadline
- March Questions and Answers
- March key tax dates
February 2024
- New Year, New Budget
- Online sellers watch out for 'side hustle tax'
- £148m in tax bills to be paid in instalments
- Scotland creates new higher income tax band
- February Questions and Answers
- February Key Dates
January 2024
- Watch out for data thieves' latest scam
- Cause for cheer on company parties
- Have you discovered this tax relief?
- New 'one pension pot for life' proposal
- January Questions and Answers
- January Key Dates
December 2023
- Self-Employment Tax Returns deadline looms
- Autumn Statement - what happens now?
- Cash basis changes
- Tax-deductible training costs
- December Questions and Answers
- December Key Dates
November 2023
- Inheritance Tax Query? Contact HMRC Now
- VAT Registration – Online Only from November 2023
- HMRC are Communicating about Self-Assessment
- Payrolled Benefits, Self-Assessment and Student Loans
- November Questions and Answers
- November Key Dates
- Autumn Statement 2023
October 2023
- Advisory Fuel Rates – MUST Be Effective 01 October 2023
- R&D Tax Relief – Additional Information Required
- Register for Self-Assessment – The Deadline Approaches
- Statutory Paternity Leave and Pay Changes in 2024
- October Questions and Answers
- October Key Dates
September 2023
- HMRC Close One Helpline – But Re-open Another
- Outstanding Post - HMRC Extends its Trial
- Employer Bulletin August 2023 – an Error Corrected
- Welcome IZENR (aka National Insurance Relief in Investment Zones)
- September Questions and Answers
- September key tax dates
August 2023
- Outstanding Post - HMRC Expands its Agent Team
- Important Employment Law Changes
- Obtaining the National Insurance Number
- Introducing More HMRC Call Waiting Times
- August Questions and Answers
- August key tax dates
July 2023
- Corporation tax on capital gains
- Voluntary NIC payment deadline extended again
- HMRC nudges those named in Pandora Papers
- How to claim the Marriage Allowance
- July Questions and Answers
- July key tax dates
June 2023
- How to spread your PAYE payments
- HMRC warn of BAD relief claims
- VAT margin scheme for car dealers
- Excess mileage payments
- June Questions and Answers
- June key tax dates
May 2023
- VAT penalty notices
- Planning for retirement
- Payroll settlement agreements (PSA)
- Payroll hygiene
- May Questions and Answers
- May key tax dates
April 2023
- More time to pay missing National Insurance Contributions
- Cleaning up your sales till
- Employment status of Associate Dentists
- Electronic returns of benefits and expenses
- April Questions and Answers
- April key tax dates
March 2023
- Relief for mortgage interest on let properties
- HMRC homes in on Airbnb landlords
- Planning your profit extraction
- Plugging NIC gaps
- March Questions and Answers
- March Key tax dates
- Spring Budget - 2023
February 2023
- HMRC questions claims for Lettings Relief
- How to challenge a K-code
- Reporting crypto profits and losses
- HMRC is chasing down the gig-economy
- February Questions and Answers
- February Key tax dates
January 2023
- Claiming employment related expenses
- Beware of electronic sales suppression
- VAT late filing penalties
- Late VAT payments and interest
- January Questions and Answers
- January Key Tax Dates
December 2022
- VAT repayment evidence
- Letters to landlords
- Corporate Landlords
- Letters about corporate losses
- December Questions and Answers
- December Key Tax Dates
November 2022
- Latest news round-up
- Entertaining - allowable for tax?
- Renting out a 'spare' room
- A company closes - how to withdraw any remaining cash tax efficiently.
- November Questions and Answers
- November Key Tax Dates
- Autumn Statement 2022
October 2022
- Mini Budget Summary
- Are you too late to claim a tax repayment?
- Landlords - make sure you claim all the expenses you can.
- Which VAT scheme to use?
- October Questions and Answers
- October Key Tax Dates
September 2022
- Latest news round-up
- One way of getting money out of your company - charge rent
- Have you taken an 'illegal dividend'?
- Are you trading?
- September Questions and Answers
- September Key tax dates
August 2022
- Latest news round-up
- Where does HMRC get its information from?
- Are directors liable for their dissolved company's unpaid bills?
- Reporting residential property gains - the timing is tight
- August Questions and Answers
- August Key tax dates
July 2022
- Latest news round-up
- When should a business register for VAT?
- Can employing a family member save tax?
- Tax relief for rental property losses post Covid
- July Questions and Answer
- July Key tax dates
June 2022
- Latest news round-up
- Capital Gains Tax - your main residence may not be tax-free
- Are you struggling to pay your tax bill?
- Tax relief for losses - Coronavirus concession
- June Questions and Answers
- June Key tax dates
May 2022
- Latest News round-up
- PAYE Tax Coding - is your Code right?
- 'Higher earner'- should you claim child benefit?
- Let property - Claiming the full amount of mortgage interest tax relief
- May Questions and Answers
- May Key tax dates
April 2022
- Latest news round-up
- Transitional rules for Capital Allowances
- Election to be treated as UK-domiciled for IHT purposes
- Is the QCB deferral worthwhile?
- April Questions and Answers
- April Key tax dates
March 2022
- Latest news round-up
- VAT - the annual accounting scheme
- Claiming relief for an old tax return error
- Trading losses and CGT
- March Questions and Answers
- March Key Tax Dates
- Spring Statement 2022
February 2022
- Latest news round-up
- VAT - charged too much?
- Does an employee loan always need reporting to HMRC?
- Holdover relief tax trap
- February Questions and Answers
- February Key tax dates
January 2022
- Latest news round-up
- Christmas: how does hospitality and gifts affect the VAT return?
- Inheritance Tax (IHT) - a problem with taper relief
- Home working and Capital Gains Tax (CGT)
- January Questions and Answers
- January Key tax dates
December 2021
- Latest news round-up
- Using the Import One-Stop-Shop for low value sales
- EIS - FTT considers risk to capital condition
- Let property: improvement v repair
- December Questions and Answers
- December Key tax dates
November 2021
- Autumn Budget 2021
- Latest news round-up
- Partial exemption and B2B services from overseas
- Discovery assessments: time limits, the staleness concept, and Finance Bill changes
- Avoiding wasted capital losses
- November Questions and Answers
- November Key tax dates
October 2021
- Latest news round-up
- Preserving FHL status for 2020/21
- Freeports - the tax breaks
- Buying a commercial building
- October Questions and Answers
- October Key tax dates
September 2021
- Latest news round-up
- Loss relief for companies ceasing a trade
- HMRC enquiries: is it in time?
- Inheritance tax - why giving away money can mean more for the beneficiaries
- September Questions and Answers
- September Key tax dates
August 2021
- Latest news round-up
- Investors' Relief - the forgotten CGT break?
- Invalid VAT invoices
- Tax-Free Childcare and summer activities
- August Questions and Answers
- August Key tax dates
July 2021
- Latest news round up
- P11Ds for 2020/21 - COVID19 considerations
- Property CGT - avoid reporting traps
- VAT registration - delays
- July Questions and Answers
- July Key tax dates
June 2021
- Latest news round up
- Non-resident SDLT surcharge now in effect
- Gift aid problems
- VAT group registration
- June Questions and Answers
- June Key tax dates
May 2021
- Latest news round up
- Student loans for 2021-22
- Debt factoring and VAT
- Making Tax Digital
- May questions and answers
- May Key tax dates
April 2021
- Latest news round up
- Loss relief extension
- Dealing with an overdrawn Directors Loan Account
- Tax relief for loans used for businesses
- April questions and answers
- April Key tax dates
March 2021
- Latest news round up
- Import One-Stop Shop
- Reporting Covid-19 support payments
- Venture Capital Trusts - are the dividends exempt?
- March questions and answers
- March Key tax dates
- March 2021 Budget
February 2021
- Latest news round up
- Deregistering from VAT
- Self-assessment - DIY time-to-pay options
- Leaving the UK: a look at split-year treatment
- February questions and answers
- February Key tax dates
January 2021
- Latest round up
- Reverse charge for building services imminent
- First-year allowances for zero emission cars to continue
- HMRC launches UK VAT number checking tool
- January questions and answers
- January Key tax dates