HMRC has launched a consultation on new rules to allow employers to report salary advances along with regular salary payments to remove requirement to effectively double report
The REC is calling on the government to focus on regulating umbrella companies and scrap unfair proposals to pass umbrella tax debt to employment businesses
Plans for an overhaul of research and development tax reliefs need to be finetuned to ensure a merged system is effective, warns Nigel Holmes, director, research and development, Ryan
The Treasury is considering tax breaks for provision of occupational health services as it grapples with the large number of workers signed off on long-term sick
HMRC will be given extra powers to collect information about the amount of dividend payments earned by owner managed business directors while employers will have to report the number of hours worked by individual employees
The government is considering tightening the rules to make it more difficult for multinationals to avoid paying the diverted profits tax and bring it into the corporation tax regime
The complex stamp tax rules could be simplified to create a single tax, removing some headaches for accountants, explain Ben Jones, co-head of global tax, and Colin Askew and Helen Mackey, tax partners at Eversheds Sutherland
The Treasury is consulting on measures to strengthen protection for contractors who use umbrella companies by creating a legislative framework and reviewing employee pay processes and tax liability
The government has told MPs that it is consulting on a change to VAT on energy saving materials which could boost the capacity of householders to use solar energy to power their homes
The government has launched a consultation to consider giving HMRC more powers to recover unpaid tax on crypto transactions directly from digital wallets