by superadmin | Nov 26, 2025 | HMRC
Employees with electric vehicles as company cars have seen a change in the rates they can claim for mileage allowance since September 1, but HMRC has updated the guidance on October 6 about how these new rates need to be apportioned for each journey. The previous...
by superadmin | Nov 5, 2025 | HMRC
HMRC has once again been given powers to take money owing to it directly from people’s bank accounts when people persistently fail to pay the tax due. Most taxpayers, those who pay on time and in full, will have nothing to worry about. But the small minority that...
by superadmin | Sep 24, 2025 | HMRC
Self-assessment taxpayers who have submitted their 2024/25 tax return are now being sent letters by HMRC as they may not have applied the correct rate of Capital Gains Tax (CGT) on disposals after October 30, 2024. The main rates of CGT on the disposal of assets,...
by Ruth Clark | Aug 20, 2025 | HMRC, Tax
HMRC is encouraging people to check that any email purporting to be from the taxman is genuine before you make any effort to respond and potentially fall foul of a phishing or other fraudulent email scam. It has created a page that allows you to check what emails HMRC...
by Ruth Clark | Jul 31, 2025 | HMRC, Tax
Around 600,000 late-filing penalties have been paid to HMRC in the last five years by some of the lowest earners in the UK despite them not owing any tax, according to Tax Policy Associates. Missing the filing deadline of January 31 for a self-assessment tax return...
by Ruth Clark | Jul 24, 2025 | HMRC
Less than half of self-employed workers who use their vehicle for work purposes are aware of HMRC’s simplified mileage rates, according to its own research. The flat rate deduction is 45p per mile for the first 10,000 miles and 25p for every mile after this, and these...
