by David Jones | Aug 15, 2019 | Self Assessment, VAT
As it has been a couple of months since my last delve into my in-box of tax related questions, I have selected a handful of the questions received that I hope you will find interesting. The Topics today: Can I claim the VAT on takeaways? Is a free meal in lieu of cash...
by David Jones | Jul 19, 2019 | Business Tax, VAT
Accountants and their representative bodies have labelled the performance of HMRC’s VAT helpline ‘extremely worrying’ after the Revenue failed to answer nearly 60% of calls in May. Figures recently released by the tax authority show that in May 2019, HMRC answered...
by David Jones | Jul 11, 2019 | VAT
Making Tax Digital for VAT (MAT) will shortly be upon us with the 7th August deadline for the first quarterly VAT filing, looming large on the horizon. Many of our clients are concerned both with the need for the additional tax submissions but also because of the...
by David Jones | Jul 5, 2019 | Self Assessment, VAT
Today’s Blog came about as a result of my regular review of recent Tax and VAT tribunal cases and this one caught my eye when I read that a first-tier VAT tribunal had decided that Anna Cook’s Ceroc dancing classes qualified for an exemption from VAT....
by David Jones | Apr 4, 2019 | Business Regulation, Business Tax, VAT
Today I’m reporting on the curious case of JCA Seminars Limited that deliberately overpaid its VAT and then when the matter came to light, deliberately underpaid VAT on subsequent returns to correct the issue. It will not surprise you to learn that HMRC/VAT did not...
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?)...
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