In families where child benefit is claimed, it is important that the individual or couple receiving the child benefit keeps a close eye on their income level.
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October Payroll and RTI
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Travelling to the workplace may now be unaffordable for some employees but employers who help by reimbursing travel expenses could be creating an extra tax burden for themselves and their employees.
Continue ReadingThe Chancellor has announced a range of financial support measures to assist with energy costs. There is no direct support for businesses.
Continue ReadingWhen completing the annual expenses and benefits return (P11D) you need to know what company-provided vehicles each employee and director used in the tax year.
Continue ReadingIt is time to report the expenses and benefits provided to employees during the year to 5 April 2022. This reporting process is known as the P11D after the number of the relevant HMRC form although these days the report is normally a function within payroll software.
Continue ReadingIt is important to keep your personal money and your company's money completely separate. If you use your company's bank card to buy personal items or to pay your own bills, that expenditure is treated as a loan to you.
Continue ReadingThe rates for national insurance contributions (NIC) increased by 1.25 percentage points for everyone on 6 April 2022. From 6 July the NIC starting threshold will rise to £12,570 per year (£1,048 per month) for employees.
Continue ReadingThe price of road fuel has increased significantly in the last few months and HMRC has responded by raising all the advisory fuel mileage rates for company cars from 1 December 2021.
Continue ReadingAs we are now at the 'living with Covid-19' stage of the pandemic the Government has decided to close the Covid-19-related statutory sick pay (SSP) rebate scheme on 17 March 2022.
Continue ReadingPersonal tax rates have been held steady for a few years, so it made no difference whether you extracted funds from your company in one tax year or the next.
Continue ReadingHMRC are now actively pursuing incorrect and fraudulent grant claims made under the coronavirus job retention scheme (CJRS) for wages of furloughed employees.
Continue ReadingYour business probably pays several different taxes to HMRC: corporation tax or income tax; VAT; and PAYE all at different intervals. If the tax payment is not correctly accounted for by HMRC and set against the right tax account for your business an erroneous tax debt may arise.
Continue ReadingThe fuel crisis last September has encouraged many people to consider buying an electric car.
Continue ReadingTwo areas in the public sector that desperately need funding are the NHS and social care. To pay for these services the Government is raising a new tax: the health and social care (HSC) levy. This will be charged at 1.25% of income or profits for the employed and self-employed respectively from 6.4.23 as it takes time to adjust computer systems to collect a new tax.
Continue ReadingThe tax payable on dividends is set to rise from 7.5% to 8.75% for basic rate taxpayers from 6.4.22. Higher rate taxpayers will pay 33.75% on dividends and additional rate taxpayers must budget for dividend tax of 39.35%. These rates will apply to all dividends taken from all companies where the total dividend income exceeds the dividend allowance which has been held at £2,000 for 2022-23.
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