HMRC has refreshed its Making Tax Digital for Income Tax guidance just days before the new rules start on 6 April, which makes this a live issue now for higher-earning sole traders and landlords rather…
If you run or manage a UK forecourt, this is one of those admin jobs that has just become harder to ignore. The Competition and Markets Authority has written to road fuel retailers to remind…
Most small businesses can ignore this one. But if you make, import, warehouse or sell vaping products in the UK, HMRC has just opened the approval process for a new duty regime that could become…
Welsh Labour says it would freeze Welsh income tax rates in the next Senedd term if it wins May’s election. For many small business owners, that may sound like background politics. It is not a…
HMRC has updated two key Making Tax Digital for Income Tax publications just over a week before the new regime starts for the first group of taxpayers. On the surface, the 27 March changes look…
Making Tax Digital for Income Tax has felt like a problem for bigger sole traders first. That is still true in the short term, but HMRC has now made clear that a much larger group…
Packaging compliance is becoming harder for UK businesses to shrug off as a problem for someone else. The latest sign came on 23 March, when PackUK announced that UK Packaging PRO has been appointed as…
HMRC has updated its guidance to say businesses will not be able to sign up for Making Tax Digital for Income Tax until 1pm on Tuesday 24 March because of planned maintenance. For many small…
HMRC has launched a new website called Tax Confident, aimed at helping people understand tax in simpler language. For small business owners, sole traders and side-hustle founders, the practical value is not that it changes…
Hundreds of employers across the UK have been named for failing to pay the legal minimum wage, in a fresh government enforcement round that small business owners should treat as a timely reminder rather than…