ACCA: Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme

We are sharing this update from ACCA, our professional body, for the interest of clients and contacts. The content is (c) ACCA The government is temporarily reintroducing the SSPRS to support employers facing heightened levels of sickness absence due to Covid-19 The...

ACCA – Top Ten Common Tax Elections and Claims

We are sharing this update from ACCA, our professional body, for the interest of clients and contacts. The content is (c) ACCA Common elections and claims that are useful tax planning or compliance tools Some of these claims have strict time limits, which should be...

Self Assessment Season – Last Minute Tips

The deadline for filing 2020-21 Self Assessments with HMRC is 31 January 2022, which is also the payment deadline. Lets look at some key things you should be doing now:   Filing Returns First, if you have an accountant – be it ourselves or someone else...

Christmas Hours at Whitefield & YogaTax

Our office will close be closed for the Christmas and New year Break from 3pm 23rd December, until Tuesday 4th January.   Some staff may be away from 20th onward.   If you have Companies House accounts filings due by 31 December 2021, then the approval accounts must...

ACCA – HMRC Writes to SEISS Claimants

We are sharing this update from ACCA, our professional body, for the interest of clients and contacts. The content is (c) ACCA Read the letter being sent to people who have received payments through the Self Employment Income Support Scheme From the first week of...

Voluntary NI and Self Assessment

With Self Assessment season for 2020-21 in full swing, its useful to revisit Voluntary NI issues, and maintaining access to State Benefits and State Pension. Entitlement to State Benefits, primarily State Pension, is currently generated from either: Class 1 National...

Autumn 2021 Budget and Spending Review

Here is our preliminary review of todays (27ths October 2021) Budget and Spending Review. The two big tax changes funding Covid recovery were already known, viz the Health and Social Care Levy and the Corporation Tax changes coming in from April 2023.  To recap:...

ACCA: Late-payment penalty calculations

We are sharing this update from ACCA, our professional body, for the interest of clients and contacts. The content is (c) ACCA We explain the changes to penalties for VAT and ITSA Last month, an ACCA article highlighted the proposed new points-based penalty regime for...

Right to Work

A fall out from Brexit is around right to work issues. For UK employers there was a six month grace period for checking Right to Work status of EU citizens.  This has expired now, and UK employers have to check EU citizens’ right to work in the UK, as they would...

VAT and Brexit

Although it was clear VAT would be impacted significantly by Brexit, the prolonged exit negotiations and the last minute “deal” with the EU, alongside the pandemic, all conspired to mean that there wasn’t a great deal of time to prepare for VAT...

Social Care Funding Reforms – aka Tax Rises

On 7th September 2021 the Prime Minister broke a Manifesto Commitment and announced rises to National Insurance in order to fix Social Care costs. Of course its right to suspect that this may just be a sticking plaster – health and social care can be a near...
Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.

To review our full Privacy and Cookie Policy please click here.