Happy New Tax Year!

The start of the new tax year often provides the impetus for new business start-ups. This year, it may be more a case of re-starting if you have been forced into COVID-19-induced hibernation. If you are re-starting or just planning, the government has just published details of its new range of restart grants and recovery loan funding.

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The Easter weekend is typically the time when a lot of properties are newly listed on the market. To this end we have been updating our Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) guides for potential buyers as we try to answer your latest, most frequently asked questions (FAQs).

HMRC have published a response to their 2018 consultation ‘The Taxation of Trusts: a review’ which considered if the system for taxing trusts meets the principles of transparency, fairness, neutrality, and simplicity. The conclusion is that no comprehensive reform is currently required.

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The government published more than 30 tax updates, consultations and other documents this week. These are in addition to the announcements made earlier this month in Budget 2021. As the new documents cover a diverse range of topics, we have picked out some of the highlights and will continue reviewing the other proposals in the coming weeks.

In a recent agent webinar HMRC advised that they will soon be issuing determinations of Income Tax and NICs to taxpayers affected by the loan charge who have failed to include the charge on a 2018/19 Self Assessment return.