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Scott-Moncrieff Business Alerts:
Letting property developments. New minimum wage rates from 1st October. Gift Aid changes. Update on VAT and duty on fuel.
Business Alert - September 2008
Interest on VAT errors. Charity challenge events - VAT. Revised IHT.Increase in personal allowances. Salary sacrifice.
New PAYE forms on the way. Charities and tax. Does HMRC owe you money? Increased personal allowances. Tax debts - right of set off.
Business Alert - June (2) 2008
Personal allowance increased. New advisory fuel only rates. Construction Industry Scheme modified.
Online learning launched, PAYE deadline approaches, payroll
Childcare vouchers using salary sacrifice
New tax penalty regime commences, Working from home?
New corporate, business, personal, employment and indirect tax rates for the new tax year.
Budget 2008 - analysis and comment on the key changes announced in the Chancellor's Budget. Click here
PAYE online system open. Remind: payments due in March 2008. Employees travelling abroad? Beneficial loans.
Residence and domicile: HMRC issues guidance to advisers. New range of tools for employers on the Employer CD Rom. Changes to payroll - student loan repayments.
Business Alert - February (2) 2008
New tax guidance published on sending staff home by taxi. Residence and domicile proposals. VAT refunds. Help with online filing.
Business Alert - February 2008
CGT and Non-domicile tax concessions announced. VAT changes for building renovations.
Tax return deadline looms. Capital allowances changes finalised.
Business Alert - December 2007
New IHT claim form. Flexible working extension planned. HMRC withdrawing dispensations. Amendments to R&D claim rules. New fuel only advisory rates.
Business Alert - November 2007
Pre-Budget Report changes rumble on. Green cars. Construction Industry Scheme - review process. IHT nil rate bands published.
Pre-Budget Report 2007 - Key changes: Capital Gains Tax. Inheritance Tax. Non-doms.
New state pension rules on the way. Capital allowances to be overhauled March 2008.
Business Alert - September (2) 2007
PAYE changes. First prosecution under National Minimum Wage Act (1998). End of CIS penalty free period.
Business Alert - September 2007
Free computers for staff - tax changes. Nil payment notifications. Sponsoring employees through university?
Husband and wife company win. Floods helpline. Tax free incentive cheques delayed.
Update on offshore disclosure. Theatres & VAT input tax. New fuel rates. Increased interest rates on corporation tax. New VAT invoicing rules. Court of Appeal rules on SSP for agency workers.
Business Alert - June (2) 2007
Disclosure of income from foreign bank accounts. Motoring expenses and VAT. CIS update.
VAT reverse charge on mobile phones to commence shortly. Charity trading: important new guidance issued. EMI survey launched and tax repayment for R40 has been changed.
Taking cash out of the UK -prepare to declare. Finance Act 2006 update: charities which incur non charitable expenditure are much more likely to incur a tax liability. 19 May deadline to file PAYE end of year returns.
HMRC announces a tax amnesty on offshore savings. Revised guidance issued for situations where there is no valid VAT receipt. Tax reclaim form R40 gets a makeover.
VAT reverse charge procedures to commence 1 June 2007, PAYE in year online process delayed, new CIS goes live, payslip booklets delayed and 2005/06 penalities for late employer returns.
Business Alert - March (2) 2007
File your PAYE return early, minimum wage rates proposed and new CIS payments due on Good Friday (6 April 2007).
VAT on fuel - new arrangements, change in coding notices, 600% rise in employee van benefits in kind and look out for the new employers' CD-ROM issued by HMRC.
Business Alert - February (2) 2007
VAT cash accounting scheme changes and reduced 'fuel only' rates announced. VAT changes to the supply of medical services.
Business Alert - February 2007
Tax changes on the way for pensioners. Paid voluntary contributions? If so, you could be entitled to claim them back. Longer statutory holidays in the pipeline and fines for non-payment of minimum wage.
Guidance on residence for tax purposes. VAT on new residential property. DTI announces increase in minimum holidays and changes to business stationery rules.
