by David Jones | Apr 27, 2023 | Business Tax, Opinion, Personal Finance, Self Assessment
As a tax accountant and blogger, I often think about the UK tax system. The more I looked, the clearer it became that the UK tax system treats certain taxpayers differently to others, which leads to unfairness in terms of the amount of tax paid on similar levels of...
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 | May 19, 2022 | Business Regulation, Business Start-up, Business Tax, Opinion, Payroll Services, Tax Investigations
Before I go into the detail of this case, I think it helpful if I explain exactly what long-firm fraud is. Action Fraud, the UK’s national reporting centre for fraud, defines long-firm fraud as when dishonest individuals set up what’s an apparently legitimate...
by David Jones | Apr 28, 2022 | Payroll Services, Self Assessment
As part of its campaign to close down or at least hamstring tax avoidance schemes, HMRC has named two schemes that it considers particularly abusive. Their main aim is to send a crystal-clear message that it will not tolerate these cynical schemes and their promoters....
by David Jones | Apr 21, 2022 | Business Regulation, Opinion, Payroll Services, Self Assessment, Tax Investigations
As there hasn’t been a lot happening in the world of tax or at HMRC over the last couple of weeks, I thought you might find some of the recent questions asked by clients and readers of the Blog, of interest and hopefully of some help. This week’s selection: Can I...
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