by David Jones | Mar 21, 2019 | Comments on Global News
We were promised a fiscal non-event for this year’s Spring Statement and, it must be said, last week the Chancellor delivered in spades. A speech light on detail, but with a few things for British businesses to chew on as the Brexit timebomb ticks in the background....
by David Jones | Mar 14, 2019 | Business Regulation
We all have a name and in most cases we’ve had little input in choosing it, as it’s been chosen for us by our parents using a variety of methods. We may have been named after a relative, such as a grandparent or maybe it’s a family tradition (all of the males in my...
by David Jones | Mar 8, 2019 | Opinion, Personal Finance
If you are totally honest with yourself, you most certainly have had a debt problem in the past. Historically, you may not have realised it at the time because, by hook or by crook, you were coping with it. What most people consider to be the norm, making that monthly...
by David Jones | Mar 1, 2019 | Self Assessment
As the many readers of this Blog will testify, I am not the biggest fan of HMRC; indeed a fair number of my Blogs have been quite scathing of their inefficiencies and treatment of taxpayers. But today, I will have to address the fact that I once wrote that I would...
by David Jones | Feb 22, 2019 | Self Assessment
Today I’m reporting on a hard fought battle between HMRC and Middlesbrough Football Club. The game started two years ago and came to its final conclusion at a recent Tribunal; where Boro won after extra time. The background In 2107 HMRC ruled that the Championship...
by David Jones | Feb 14, 2019 | Self Assessment
For years, accountants and directors alike have been irritated by HMRC insisting that all directors must register for self-assessment, even if they have no tax to pay; but now finally, HMRC has changed its stance and its guidance. Director Tax Return: The law The...
by David Jones | Feb 7, 2019 | VAT
In 1991 a landmark tax ruling deemed that McVitie’s famous Jaffa cake were actually cakes and not biscuits as assessed by HMRC/VAT; thus zero-rating them for VAT purposes. Now, almost 30 years after this definitive VAT case (is it a cake or a chocolate biscuit?)...
by David Jones | Feb 1, 2019 | Self Assessment
What is your Tax Return Trouble? To paraphrase Shakespeare’s ‘Song of the Witches’ from Macbeth, one taxpayer used “My mother-in-law is a witch and put a curse on me,” as an excuse for failing to submit his self-assessment tax return on time. Yes, we’ve reached that...
by David Jones | Jan 25, 2019 | Business Tax, Personal Finance, Personal Tax Planning, Self Assessment
Tales from the Tax Return Season Any accountant who has endured the onslaught of the self-assessment tax season has that one year that stands out in their personal hall of infamy. Yes, the stress of a mountain of tax returns is not enough; sometimes the...
by David Jones | Jan 18, 2019 | Personal Tax Planning
World’s oldest person tax scam In the news recently was a report that researchers have uncovered evidence which suggests that the woman registered as the world’s oldest person may actually have been her daughter, who assumed her identity to avoid paying inheritance...
David Jones is the Senior Partner and Founder of Morgan Jones & Company. Born in Liverpool and an Accountancy graduate of the University of Wolverhampton, David spent twenty years working for the Customs & Excise in London then Shrewsbury before starting his own business. David's depth of knowledge of the UK tax system and his ability to communicate this learning has seen Morgan Jones & Company grow into Shropshire's most respected Accountancy Practice. Email David