by Ruth Clark | Nov 20, 2024 | Uncategorised
Anyone with an incomplete National Insurance record between 2006 and 2016 has until April 5, 2025, to top up their National Insurance (NI) payments to get the maximum state pension. Ordinarily, voluntary NI top-ups can be made for up to six years to complete an NI...
by Ruth Clark | Nov 13, 2024 | HMRC, Tax
Employees on PAYE who need to make expenses claims can no longer currently make their claims online, and instead will have to use a postal system to deal with HMRC. Anyone who has out-of-pocket expenses for their job is entitled to claim tax relief on these from HMRC....
by Ruth Clark | Nov 6, 2024 | Uncategorised
New protection rules which came in on October 7 mean banks will now refund qualifying Authorised Push Payment (APP) payments where someone has unwittingly paid a fraudster. The rules apply to transactions made between UK accounts using the Faster Payments system –...
by Ruth Clark | Oct 23, 2024 | Business
Businesses will no longer receive Corporation Tax reminder letters from September, so from now on, you will need to be on top of your Corporation Tax to make sure you pay everything on time and in full without any prompts. All non-statutory Corporation Tax letters...
by Ruth Clark | Oct 16, 2024 | HMRC, Tax
Dealing with someone’s death is never easy, and unpicking their affairs once they have gone, especially if there has been no forward planning for this inevitable event, can be very hard on those left behind. This isn’t helped if there are taxes to pay on the estate...