The new chancellor Sajid Javid has said that he will simplify the tax system in his first budget. Yes, Minister! We have all heard all this before and there is even an Office of Tax Simplification to prove it.
The paradox for all chancellors in the task of simplifications is that it will result in some losers and not just winners and no chancellor will want to risk unpopularity.
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We are trying to keep it light this week as so many folk are away on their holidays. We do feature a really interesting VAT case which is also useful if you are one of many of those advisers who ask what can my employment agency client do to remain more competitive?
In HMRC v Pertemps Ltd: [2019] UKUT 0234 (TCC) the Upper Tribunal (UT) has confirmed that providing temporary staff with a salary sacrifice scheme in consideration for a small administration cost was not an economic activity and a supply for VAT made by the employer agency, it was simply an efficient method of paying staff.
In HMRC v Hargreaves Lansdown [2019] UKUT 246 the Upper Tribunal held that loyalty bonuses were annual payments and should have had tax deducted at source.
HMRC have released their annual numbers for non-UK domiciled taxpayers and estimates show that the number of non-doms in the UK for 2017/18 have again decreased compared to the previous tax year.
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We are publishing a day early this week. As it's 'the silly season'* we have more tax bait, this time seven things you can do to improve your tax health (and that of your employees). Some of them will help your actual health too...
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