Last week the Government issued a consultation regarding the timing of tax payments and collection by HMRC. Please click here to view the document. It is worth noting in the consultation document that Para 4.59 specifically asks for responses on…
Now that the 2020/21 tax year has come to an end, there are a variety of tax filing obligations on employers. One of these obligations is that if employees (including directors) have any transactions involving shares or similar securities in…
Staff at PKF Francis Clark will have greater freedom to choose where they work in future, after remote working practices during the pandemic proved popular and successful. The firm has adopted a new hybrid working policy in response to a…
This article was originally published in the Western Morning News on Wednesday 24 March 2021. I have been asked by many clients and fellow professionals, what came out of the recent budget? The rise in corporation tax and freezing of…
This interview was originally published in the Western Morning News on Wednesday 24 March 2021 and was carried out by the Western Morning News' Farming Editor Athwenna Irons. In what's been a turbulent and strange twelve months, the Western Morning…
Some of the South West’s leading business brains are sharing their stories in our new podcast – Business Noodles and Doodles. In each episode, corporate finance partner Mark Greaves talks to a South West business leader, finding out what drives…
Judgement The Supreme Court have dismissed the appeal in Royal Mencap Society v Tomlinson Blake. Background The case is fundamentally about what counts as working time for national minimum wage (NMW) purposes. Particularly, the case centres on ‘sleep-in’ shifts and…
It’s Monday morning and all is well and then the post arrives. There it is, that innocent letter from HMRC, warning of an impending Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) compliance review for a contractor client. Many readers will deal with those…
Residential SDLT is set to become more complex from 1 April 2021 with the planned introduction of the new 2% surcharge for non-UK resident purchasers of residential property in England and Northern Ireland. The 2% surcharge will apply to most…
The domestic reverse charge, commonly referred to as the reverse charge, is a major change to the way VAT is collected in the building and construction industry and will affect both suppliers and customers that are both VAT and CIS…
