Tax

From April 2022, both national insurance and dividend tax are set to rise by 1.25%.

As the country emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic, business travel is once again on the agenda. 

During the Covid-19 pandemic, HMRC paused much of their tax collection work but as the country starts to emerge from the pandemic, HMRC have once again turned their focus to the collection of tax debts, publishing a policy paper setting out their approach.

Under real time information (RTI), employers are required to report pay and deductions information to HMRC ‘at or before’ the time that the payment is made to the employee. This is done by means of the full payment submission (FPS). 

For 2020/21 and later tax years, unincorporated property businesses are only able to obtain relief for interest and finance costs on residential lets as a basic rate tax reduction; it is no longer possible to deduct any of the interest or finance costs to arrive at the taxable profit.

You must register your business for VAT if your VAT taxable turnover exceeds the registration threshold. This is currently £85,000.

HMRC has the power to enquire into any return and request any information to establish whether that return is correct. No reasons need be given and invariably will not be disclosed. 

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the advice was ‘work from home if you can’. As a result, millions of employees found themselves working at home.

Expenses and benefits returns P11D and P11D(b) for 2020/21 need to be filed by 6 July 2021. Meeting this deadline is important as penalties may be charged for returns that are filed late.

If you operate through a limited company, for example as a personal or family company, you will need to extract funds from your company in order to use them to meet your personal bills.