Making Tax Digital Is Coming Up Fast

I wasn’t sure it would ever happen, but it looks like I was wrong – MTD is coming, and all VAT registered businesses will have to be compliant by 1 June 2019, and some a soon as 1 April 2019. So if you’re not sure what you need to do, here’s a quick update. Starting...

HMRC Looking To Apply IR35 To Private Contractors

Last year HMRC beefed up the rules where contractors to the public sector were taxed as employees while still suffering the downsides of self-employment. They now want to extend it to all contractors. Many people choose to be contractors because it suits them. They...

Penultimate VAT Return Before MTD

We’ve just completed all our client’s VAT returns for the quarter ended 31 December 2018, filing them by 7 February. These lucky clients will be the first ones that start filing under the new rules from 1 April 2019. So they only have one more return under the old...