Accounting for Charities and Non-Profits

How the third sector is assessed for tax. Anyone who’s involved in operating a charity knows how it differs from running a business, both in terms of motives and objectives. HMRC treats non-profit organisations and charities very differently to businesses, offering...

Taking Charge of Planning Your Estate

Increasing house prices raise inheritance tax risk. Soaring house prices coupled with certain thresholds being frozen in the most recent Budget have the potential to drag more estates into the inheritance tax net over the coming years. Back in March 2021, Chancellor...

Self Employment Income Support Scheme: HMRC and Your Claim

As the Self-employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) comes to a close, HMRC will continue to check claims rigorously. Reviewing Claims It is always preferable to approach HMRC with a disclosure, rather than wait for HMRC to discover potential problems. As HMRC...

Off-Payroll Working – Will HMRC Accept CEST Result?

Since 6 April 2021 large and medium sized organisations, based on the Companies Act criteria, have had to determine whether or not a worker supplying his services via their own personal service company would be treated as an employee if directly engaged. This replaced...

The Pros and Cons of a Company Electric Car

Should employers shift towards greener vehicles? Despite the potentially high personal tax charge, many employees still enjoy and prefer the convenience of being offered the use of a company car by their employer. Those employers familiar with the benefit-in-kind tax...