The government is offering discounts of up to £5,000 as part of their Help to Grow: Digital scheme which has been designed to support smaller businesses in adopting digital technologies. The digital scheme, now open for applications, will enable eligible…
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is set to introduce the new consumer duty in the hopes to better protect users of financial services. The new rules set in place will contribute to tackling harmful practices such as providers of financial…
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In the latest financial year HM Revenue and Customers saw a drop of almost £30 billion as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2020/21 annual reports showed that HMRC has reported it had collected over £608 billion in tax…
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England and Wales homeowners will be offered subsidies of £5,000 from April 2022 in the hopes to help replace old gas boilers with low carbon heat pumps. More efficient heating systems such as heat pumps will no longer be the…
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The government has announced that UK workers could now get more choice when determining when and where they work under the new proposed right to request flexible working, a day one entitlement. The government also plans to introduce a day…
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The HM Treasury has confirmed that Chancellor Rishi Sunak will deliver the budget for Autumn 2021 on Wednesday 27th October. The 2021 Spending Review was released by the chancellor in September which is set to conclude on October 27th along…
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The HMRC have removed all guidance on salary sacrifice arrangements set up before April 6th 2017. This acts as the transitional arrangement of calculating the value of the benefit which came to an end in April 5th 2021. A salary…
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It has been confirmed that 13,000 investigations have been launched by the HMRC in regard to alleged abuse to the Government’s coronavirus financial support schemes. These investigations follow an announcement made from Rishi Sunak in which he stated the Treasury…
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It has recently been confirmed by the UK government that it’s plastic packaging tax (PPT) will be put into place on April 1st 2022. The new tax will be a charged rate of £200 per metric ton of chargeable plastic…
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The launch of the fourth Self-Employed Income Support Scheme (SEISS) is now underway. HMRC has set out the penalties in place for those caught abusing the scheme. HMRC have stated that an over claimed grant is if an individual has…
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The government have recently announced that they will be providing a targeted support package for those businesses who have been unable to benefit from the existing £16 billion business rates relief for those within the hospitality, retail, and leisure sector…
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Pretty much everyone now has smart devices in their home. Whether that be smart TV’s, smart speakers or automated homewares. You will undoubtably of heard of your everyday smart speakers such as the Alexa and Google home, they give great…
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