by David Jones | May 25, 2023 | Business Regulation, Business Tax, Personal Tax Planning, Self Assessment, Tax Investigations
After ignoring concerns from professional bodies about HMRC service levels and treating the Office of Tax Simplification more like an annoying wasp buzzing in its ear, the government gives the distinct impression that it doesn’t want to listen to tax experts. A budget...
by David Jones | Nov 10, 2022 | Business Tax, Opinion, Self Assessment, VAT
Behind the curtains at Number’s 10 & 11 Downing Street, Jeremy Hunt and Rishi Sunak are desperately searching for clever ways to balance the Budget, without making it too obvious that taxes will be rising. Whilst Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng believed that growth...
by David Jones | Dec 2, 2016 | Business Start-up, VAT
Now that the fine print of the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement has been published, it is clear that many small businesses will lose the cash benefit of the VAT Flat Rate Scheme from 1st April 2017, VAT Flat Rate Scheme (FRS) The FRS is used by thousands of small...
by David Jones | Nov 24, 2016 | Corporate Tax Planning, Opinion, Personal Finance, Personal Tax Planning, Self Assessment
The size of the challenge for the chancellor Philip Hammond has become increasingly clear and after an Autumn Statement which abandoned pledges to hit a budget surplus by 2020, new analysis shows the squeeze on living standards could be worse during this Parliament...
by David Jones | Nov 19, 2015 | Corporate Tax Planning, Opinion, Personal Finance, Self Assessment
George Osborne had his sums all tied up; he would bring the country’s accounts back into surplus by 2019/20 by making £12bn worth of social security savings. This plan was flagged up before the election, but the detail was not revealed until the Budget after the...