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...
by David Jones | Apr 14, 2022 | Payroll Services, Personal Finance, Self Assessment, Tax Investigations
HMRC just cannot accept that their interpretation of the rules governing IR35, is not what the law actually says, as has been evidenced by a flurry of court decisions in recent weeks. First, we had Lorraine Kelly, best known for her eponymous programme on ITV...
by David Jones | Mar 3, 2022 | Corona Virus, Opinion, Self Assessment, Tax Investigations
Just short of six billion pounds of public money has been incorrectly paid out by HMRC in their handling of coronavirus support payments; and to make matters worse they are predicting that they’ll only be able to recover around 25% of it, with the rest being lost to...
by David Jones | Feb 3, 2022 | Business Tax, Comments on Global News, Corona Virus
Big Four accountancy firm EY have just published a report into the finances of the Premier League (PL). It reveals that despite the financial turmoil triggered by the Coronavirus, Premier League football clubs paid HMRC a whopping £3.6bn in taxes in 2019/20. The...
by David Jones | Nov 25, 2021 | Corona Virus, Payroll Services
The Treasury’s coronavirus job retention scheme (CJRS), known to most as the ‘Furlough scheme’, was closed on 30th September, after 18 months of handing out billions in financial support for businesses. It is only now however, that those businesses who fraudulently...