by David Jones | Sep 28, 2023 | Pension, Personal Finance, Self Assessment
Approaching 50% of income tax self-assessment late-filing penalties are paid by the elderly or the poor, with the common denominator being that they do not owe any tax. So today I’m asking the question; why is HMRC penalising these individuals, when all they are...
by David Jones | Sep 21, 2023 | Opinion
As our ‘wonderful’ tax authority continues with its “digital by default” approach, more and more problems have emerged highlighting a number of fundamental flaws in its approach to move all of its services online. So today I’m looking at which resources should be...
by David Jones | Jun 8, 2023 | Business Tax, Payroll Services
Our wonderful shadowy army of tax officials have truly excelled themselves this time by issuing over £300 million in IR35 penalties to other government departments, thus effectively fining themselves. This came to light when a government body, UK Research &...
by David Jones | May 11, 2023 | Self Assessment
It emerged recently, that HMRC had effectively asked thousands of taxpayers to pay the same tax bill twice, after the tax office issued paper copies of tax assessments that had already been paid. Regrettably though, these paper copies did not indicate anywhere on them...
by David Jones | Apr 14, 2023 | Self Assessment
In the latest tax notice to accountants, HMRC announced that it had bowed to pressure from the various accountancy bodies, the FSB (Federation of Small Businesses), Age Concern and various other bodies, that it had decided not to scrap paper tax returns. A victory for...