COTAX Manual
All aspects of company taxation including appeals, enquiries, payments and penalties...
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants – ACCA
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Companies House
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Business Income Manual
Supplementary guidance on how to check tax calculations or work out the trading profits of a business for Self Assessment tax return....
Rail strikes, Christmas dinner and Munro
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Hunt to back review of City ‘unbundling’ in Big Bang 2.0 reforms
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Guidance: Data Element 2/3: Documents and Other Reference Codes (Union) of the Customs Declaration Service
Find the relevant document codes, document status codes and details to be declared such as licences and certificates (Appendix 5A)....
Business Income Manual
Supplementary guidance on how to check tax calculations or work out the trading profits of a business for Self Assessment tax return....
‘Misleading’ ads appearing on Instagram and Facebook potentially fraudulent, Which? says
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Guidance: Foreign income toolkit
Get help if you’re a tax agent or adviser who has clients with foreign income to declare on Self Assessment tax returns....
Guidance: Sign up your client for Making Tax Digital for VAT
Find out how to sign up your client and what to do after you’ve signed up....
Guidance: Place of loading codes for Data Element 5/21 of the Customs Declaration Service
Find details of the relevant foreign airport zones, percentages of air freight costs to be included in the customs value, and the airport codes to be declared in Data Element 5/21 as the place (airpor...
Guidance: Carry out checks and keep records if you’re approved for FHDDS
Carry out checks on your overseas customers and find out what records you’ll need to keep if you’re approved for the Fulfilment House Due Diligence Scheme....
Guidance: Apply for the Fulfilment House Due Diligence Scheme
Find out if you need to register to store goods in the UK for sellers established outside the UK....
Guidance: Check if an alcohol wholesaler in the Isle of Man is approved
Check the list of alcohol wholesalers in the Isle of Man that have approval under the Alcohol Wholesaler Registration Scheme (AWRS)....
Limit amount of contact debt collectors can make with those who owe money, Martin Lewis’s charity urges
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Guidance: Customs Declaration Completion Requirements for The Northern Ireland Protocol
Northern Ireland Protocol CDS Tariff Guide (Imports, Exports) supplementing the current version of the UK Trade Tariff: Volume 3 for CDS....
Guidance: Ten things about accelerated payment notices
Ten things you need to know if you receive an accelerated payment notice....
Guidance: Negligible value claims and agreements
Find out how to make a negligible value claim for unquoted shares, and check if shares formerly quoted on the London Stock Exchange now have negligible value....
Egg shortages ‘could just be the start’ as UK is ‘sleepwalking’ into food supply crisis, farmers union warns
Egg shortages “could just be the start” as the UK is “sleepwalking” into a food supply crisis, the union for farmers and growers has warned....
Guidance: PAYE draft forms: specifications for substitute forms P60
Use this guide to design employer substitute forms P60 for tax years 2022 to 2023 and 2023 to 2024....
Guidance: PAYE draft forms: P60 (2023 to 2024)
Forms P60 (2023 to 2024) for PAYE software developers....
Guidance: PAYE draft forms: P60
Find draft forms that help software developers design payroll software....
Repayment Claims Manual
Repayment Claims Manual...
Guidance: Data Element 2/3 Documents and Other Reference Codes (National) of the Customs Declaration Service (CDS)
Find a list of codes for the relevant document codes, document status codes and details to be declared (for example, licences and certificates) in Data Element 2/3 (Appendix 5A)....
Guidance: Customs declaration completion requirements for Great Britain
Use this guide as a supplement when using the CHIEF and CDS trade tariffs to import and export goods to and from Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) after the end of the transition period....
Guidance: Find software that’s compatible with Making Tax Digital for Income Tax
Check which software packages are compatible with Making Tax Digital for Income Tax and find out what they do....
Decisions and appeals for National Insurance Contributions and Statutory Payments
Main contents page for NIC, employment status and statutory payments decisions and appeals;...
Official Statistics: UK trade in goods by business characteristics 2021
UK overseas trade in goods statistics (OTS) data has been linked with the Office for National Statistics (ONS) business statistics....
Statistical data set: UK trade in goods by business characteristics 2021 – data tables
Supporting tables for the UK trade in goods by business characteristics 2021...
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- COTAX Manualby HM Government on December 6, 2022 at 5:48 pm
All aspects of company taxation including appeals, enquiries, payments and penalties
- Business Income Manualby HM Government on December 6, 2022 at 4:53 pm
Supplementary guidance on how to check tax calculations or work out the trading profits of a business for Self Assessment tax return.
- Guidance: Data Element 2/3: Documents and Other Reference Codes (Union) of the Customs Declaration Serviceby HM Government on December 6, 2022 at 4:02 pm
Find the relevant document codes, document status codes and details to be declared such as licences and certificates (Appendix 5A).
- Guidance: Sign up your client for Making Tax Digital for VATby HM Government on December 6, 2022 at 3:11 pm
Find out how to sign up your client and what to do after you've signed up.
- Guidance: Foreign income toolkitby HM Government on December 6, 2022 at 2:38 pm
Get help if you're a tax agent or adviser who has clients with foreign income to declare on Self Assessment tax returns.
- Guidance: Check if an alcohol wholesaler in the Isle of Man is approvedby HM Government on December 6, 2022 at 1:58 pm
Check the list of alcohol wholesalers in the Isle of Man that have approval under the Alcohol Wholesaler Registration Scheme (AWRS).
- Guidance: Apply for the Fulfilment House Due Diligence Schemeby HM Government on December 6, 2022 at 1:56 pm
Find out if you need to register to store goods in the UK for sellers established outside the UK.
- Guidance: Carry out checks and keep records if you’re approved for FHDDSby HM Government on December 6, 2022 at 1:55 pm
Carry out checks on your overseas customers and find out what records you’ll need to keep if you’re approved for the Fulfilment House Due Diligence Scheme.
- Guidance: Place of loading codes for Data Element 5/21 of the Customs Declaration Serviceby HM Government on December 6, 2022 at 1:49 pm
Find details of the relevant foreign airport zones, percentages of air freight costs to be included in the customs value, and the airport codes to be declared in Data Element 5/21 as the place (airport) of loading (Appendix 15A and Appendix 15B).
- Guidance: Negligible value claims and agreementsby HM Government on December 6, 2022 at 11:08 am
Find out how to make a negligible value claim for unquoted shares, and check if shares formerly quoted on the London Stock Exchange now have negligible value.
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- Hunt to back review of City ‘unbundling’ in Big Bang 2.0 reformson December 6, 2022 at 3:00 pm
Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor, will this week commit to a review of City ‘unbundling’ as part of a package of deregulatory reforms aimed at bolstering London’s post-Brexit competitiveness.
- Rail strikes, Christmas dinner and Munroon December 6, 2022 at 11:34 am
Sky's business presenter looks at food inflation and how it could affect families' Christmas celebrations.
- Limit amount of contact debt collectors can make with those who owe money, Martin Lewis's charity urgeson December 6, 2022 at 9:14 am
Limits should be placed on the amount of contact debt collectors have with those who owe money, Martin Lewis's charity has said, as a survey from the organisation suggested one in six (17%) UK adults experienced suicidal thoughts as a result of the rise in the cost of living.
- Rail union urged not to 'hold country to ransom' and accept 'generous' pay offeron December 6, 2022 at 8:32 am
A minister has urged the Rail, Maritime and Transport union not to "hold the country to ransom" after it announced days of extra strikes over Christmas in a long-running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions.
- Egg shortages 'could just be the start' as UK is 'sleepwalking' into food supply crisis, farmers union warnson December 6, 2022 at 7:57 am
Egg shortages "could just be the start" as the UK is "sleepwalking" into a food supply crisis, the union for farmers and growers has warned.
- Elon Musk's firm accused of welfare violations after killing 1,500 animals in four years - reporton December 5, 2022 at 11:06 pm
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- 'Playing fast and loose with Christmas plans': RMT criticised as fresh rail strikes announcedon December 5, 2022 at 6:19 pm
Union leaders have rejected revised offers to end industrial action on the railways and announced more strikes over Christmas.
- First easing of grocery inflation for 21 months - but Christmas dinner costs surge 9%on December 5, 2022 at 5:35 pm
Grocery inflation eased for the first time in 21 months in November, according to data, but the cost of a traditional Christmas dinner will still be around 9% up on 2021.
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Potential scam ads are appearing on Instagram and Facebook, according to analysis from consumer group Which? and research charity Demos.
- UK 'is already in a recession which is expected to last into next year'on December 5, 2022 at 9:10 am
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- Disability and the cost of living: 'It's our son's life'on November 15, 2022 at 5:39 pm
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- Everyone will pay more tax - Chancellor Jeremy Hunton November 13, 2022 at 9:54 am
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- Why inflation is so high - and your other questions answeredon October 18, 2022 at 9:48 pm
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- Rent increases: What you can do about a rise from your landlordon October 17, 2022 at 10:42 pm
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‘A British bid, for a British club’: Sir Jim Ratcliffe tables last-minute £4.25bn offer for Chelsea FC
Sir Jim Ratcliffe has tabled a last-minute £4.25bn bid to buy Chelsea....
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