MTD – Making Tax Digital
… or Making Tax Difficult as I prefer to call it ! The government has back-tracked on their original proposal to digitise taxpayers’ affairs. The original plan, to have most self-employed traders and landlords uploading accounts and VAT data from April 2018, was...Good excuse for being late submitting your tax return ?
With the 31 January tax return deadline just around the corner, HMRC has revealed the ‘Top 10 oddest excuses’ for sending in a late return. The following bizarre, exotic and flimsy excuses have all been used by tardy taxpayers: My pet goldfish died (self-employed...RENTAL INCOME – When are pre-letting expenses allowed?
A look, with working examples, at pre-letting expenses and the issue of whether repairs are a capital or revenue expense. Profits from UK land or property are treated, for tax purposes, as arising from a business. The broad scheme is that rental business profits are...Received an HMRC Tax Refund Email? It’s probably a Phishing Scam!
Several of my clients have recently told me that they’ve been receiving emails, supposedly from HMRC, inviting them to click links within the emails in order to apply for tax refunds. Regrettably, some have confirmed that they did indeed click the links then log onto...
David K Crossley CTA, ATT
Member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation