4 minutes to read The Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, was keen to remind us that today’s announcements were not a Budget, and that the Spring Statement did not raise any taxes for “working people”. Whilst that was a relief for many taxpayers, a closer examination of the documents published alongside the Spring Statement reveals a raft of tax announcements. Administration …
HMRC targets historic online marketplace sales
2 minutes to read HMRCs latest campaign is a push to ensure tax compliance by those who sell through online platforms. The One to Many campaign Called the One to Many campaign, a letter is sent to people who receive income from online marketplaces , and haven’t reported their incomes. HMRC now receives data directly from platforms about their …
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Autumn budget 2024
7 minutes to read ‘Difficult choices’ was the phrase repeated at regular intervals by Chancellor Rachel Reeves in the first Labour Budget for 14 years, to ‘fix the foundations’ and ‘deliver change’. At 77 minutes, Ms Reeves’s speech was the longest we have heard for a while and contained a vast array of announcements on tax and spending. The …
Child benefit: recent updates
3 minutes to read We explain the recent changes to the High-Income Child Benefit Charge (HICBC). At the March 2024 Spring Budget, the Chancellor announced welcome developments to the HICBC from 6 April 2024. Seen widely as an unfair regime, the current threshold imposes a tapered clawback of child benefit on the highest earner within a household, provided their …
Budget: 6 March 2024
7 minutes to read The 2024 Spring Budget The main themes in the Spring Budget delivered by Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, on 6 March were growth, public services and lower taxes. On growth, there was relatively little to excite – the Office for Budget Responsibility upgraded its forecast for the current year by 0.5% and now predicts the UK economy …
Do you hold or trade cryptoassets?
< 1 minute to read If you receive cryptoassets from employment, or sell or exchange cryproassets, you may need to complete a Self Assessment tax return for the 2022 to 2023 tax year. Any income or gains above the tax-free allowance should be declared. The deadline to complete a tax return and pay any tax owed is 31 January 2024. …
National Insurance rate change
< 1 minute to read On the 6 January 2024 the National Insurance rate for millions of UK workers was cut from 12% to 10%. This brings the main rate to its lowest level for more than twenty years. It applies to the Employees’ Class 1 National Insurance Contribution (NIC). The Employers’ NIC rates remain unchanged. Further cuts From April 2024, …
Tax and the side hustle
2 minutes to read Do you sell unwanted items online? Is your creative interest bringing in a top-up income? The ease of online trading has been with us for several years now, and with apps like eBay, Vinted and Etsy, it has never been easier to turn unwanted items into cash. Add to the above Airbnb letting, renting out …
Scotland: new high earner tax band
< 1 minute to read Those living in Scotland who earn between £75,000 and £125,140 will pay more tax than they currently do following an announcement by the Scottish government today. The new 45% band unveiled by Finance Secretary Shona Robinson means that Scotland will now have six income tax bands. In addition, the top rate of tax, paid by …
Autumn statement: 22 November 2023
4 minutes to read A ‘transformational’ Autumn Statement? With better-than-expected inflation figures the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt appeared keen to shed his party’s reputation of having overseen the biggest increase in the tax burden since the Second World War. With a total of 110 changes, the speech was billed as ‘a plan to unlock investment, reward work and …