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Report SEISS Payments or Repay Grants in Full, HMRC Warns Self-Employed Taxpayers
Self-employed workers who received coronavirus support but did not accurately complete or file a 2019/20 tax return may be asked to repay their grants, it has been revealed. It comes after HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) wrote to thousands of individuals who claimed...
Reporting Covid-19 Support Payments on your tax return
If you are self-employed and you received Covid-19 support payments during the pandemic, you may need to report these on your self-assessment tax return.If you are an employee and you were furloughed and received furlough grants under the Coronavirus Job Retention...
Personal and family companies – Optimal salary for 2021/22
A popular profit extraction strategy for shareholders in personal and family companies is to pay a small salary and to extract further profits as dividends. The optimal salary will depend on whether the employment allowance is available to shelter any employer’s...
Incidental overnight expenses
A tax exemption enables an employer to meet small personal expenses when an employee stays away from home for work, without the employee suffering a tax charge and without any need to report the expenses to HMRC. What are incidental overnight expenses? Incidental...
Claim expenses for additional costs of working from home
As the 2020/21 tax year draws to a close, many employees will have spent much if not all of the last year working from home. While the tax system enables employers to pay employees a tax-free allowance of £6 per week (£26 per month) to cover the additional household...
Business interruption insurance – Are pay-outs taxable?
Business interruption insurance provides cover for losses as a result of events that close or severely disrupt the business. Policies may cover a loss of profits that arise as a result of the ‘interruption’. They may also meet fixed costs that the business has to...
IR35 and off-payroll working
Prior to 6 April 2021, workers who provide their services to a private sector organisation through an intermediary, such as a personal service company, need to consider whether the IR35 rules apply to them. This will be the case if the nature of the engagement is such...
A simple guide to Budget 2021
This is a basic guide, prepared by ACCA’s Technical Advisory team, for members and their colleagues or clients. It’s an introduction only and should not be used as a definitive guide, since individual circumstances may vary. Specific advice should be obtained, where...