How to fund research and development without losing tax relief
By Alan Pink; £20; hardback; 255 pages; Head of Zeus
HMRC have fixed a problem with their business tax dashboard that caused employment records to merge on the department’s systems.
The error hit some firms that employed a work to do more than one job within the same PAYE scheme, and resulted in erroneous consolidation of the separate employments.
Affected accounts were incorrect on the business tax dashboard – but the Revenue has updated the employer records, which will be displayed as follows:
By Sarah Laing; £98; paperback; 338 pages; Bloomsbury Professional
A client is planning a doggy day care business that will operate from premises, rented under a licence, which have been unused for several years
Partnership taxation deserves a firm and clear statutory basis
Reasons for HMRC’s tardiness in making construction industry scheme repayments
HMRC have changed their advice on the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) levy, following a backlash from building firms.
The Revenue announced in January that it would no longer allow contractors to recoup the CITB charge from subcontractors in the form of a deduction made from the “gross amount of payment” on monthly returns.
A committee of the European parliament has approved an amendment to the Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive, which would make details about individuals behind trusts publicly available for the first time.
Under the plan, each member state of the European Union would be required to keep and make available a register of information on the ultimate beneficial owners of privately owned companies, foundations and trusts.
Reddrock Ltd v CRC, Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Division)
Earnings from trading with the virtual currency bitcoin are to be free of VAT, HMRC have announced.
The tax department has set out its position on the treatment of income received from and charges made in connection with activities involving bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
Bitcoin operates through a peer-to-peer network, independent of any central authority or bank; transactions are recorded in a shared public database called a block chain.
Claiming a construction industry scheme refund can be an overlong process