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A search is underway to recruit the UK’s first Small Business Commissioner.

The commissioner will be a high profile role supporting small businesses in payment disputes with their larger customers.

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1 March 2017 - Due date for Corporation Tax due for the year ended 31 May 2016.

2 March 2017 – Self Assessment tax for 2015/16 paid after this date will incur a 5% surcharge.

19 March…

People planning their retirement will be able to withdraw up to £1,500 from their pension pots tax-free to pay for financial advice, under recent plans unveiled by the government.

The…

Buy-to-let property owners have been singled out in recent budgets for some quite draconian tax changes.

One of the most pervasive starts 6 April 2017. From this date, tax relief for the cost…

A reminder that from 6 April 2017 Lifetime ISAs are available as an alternative tax-free investment.

The lifetime Individual Savings Account (ISA) is a longer term tax-free account that receives…

While we are members of the EU, it continues to be the case that there are no limits to the alcohol and cigarettes you can bring back to the UK. However, if customs officials believe you are bringing…

Although HMRC refer to taxpayers as customers, and thereby suggest a degree of customer service, in the real world this rarely extends to offering “customers” pro-active tax advice.

Historically,…

The title of this posting describes an important concept when considering claims for expenditure to reduce our tax bills.

By and large, HMRC will accept claims that have been expended wholly…

We have advised readers in previous postings that HMRC seem to be intent on digitising the upload of small business accounting data from April 2018. From this date, affected self-employed traders (including…