6th April 2017 15:40 pm
Making Tax Digital for Business (MTD) is a subject of concern for a number of organisations, from tax experts through to the House of Lords Select Committee on Economic Affairs. All agree that MTD is being rushed and its implementation should be delayed until 2020. A Lords Sub-Committee published a…
11th January 2017 14:33 pm
As part of their preparations for Making Tax Digital (MTD), HMRC has been explaining how small businesses will save time, and therefore money, when they file their tax returns on line. In their consultation document, HMRC used the experiences of ‘Eve the Carpenter’ to detail the benefits of MTD. Eve…
From spring 2017, HM Government is making changes to the way apprenticeships in England are funded with the introduction of an apprenticeship levy on all companies with pay bills of more than £3 million per annum. The apprenticeship levy is 0.5% of an annual pay bill, so a company with…
21st December 2016 10:48 am
Exact 2016 SME barometer praises UK accountants, near the top of the European league of cloud adoption, but only 16% of small business input their accounts online. Over 2,000 accountancy professionals across Europe were surveyed by Exact as part of their annual survey which looks at relationships between accountants and…
15th December 2016 12:31 pm
Jim Harra, HMRC’s director of customer strategy and tax design was the key speaker at the 2016 Hardman lecture, given at the ICAEW headquarters in London. Among a range of topics, Harra talked about Making Tax Digital and answered a number of questions from the floor. The head of taxation…
