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In brief: 20 August 2020

18 August 2020
Issue: 4757 / Categories: News

Research and development

The Treasury is consulting on whether to expand qualifying research and development costs to include those for data and cloud computing. Responses should be emailed to rdtaxexpenditures@hmtreasury.gov.uk by 13 October.


Pensions

Views on the main methods of administering pensions tax relief and how they might be improved are sought by the government in a call for evidence. In particular it wishes to address discrepancies that can arise for low earners. Comments should be emailed to: pensionstaxreliefadministrationcfe@hmtreasury.gov.uk by 13 October.


Insolvency

HMRC’s VAT Notice 700/56: Insolvency has been updated at section 1.4 to include the new postal addresses for debt management. At section 8 (dividends) information on how to make an online payment has been added.


Agent update 79

HMRC’s recently published Agent update 79 has articles on the ‘eat out to help out’ scheme...

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