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Tax Diary January/February 2021

1 January 2021 – Due date for Corporation Tax due for the year ended 31 March 2020. 19 January 2021 – PAYE and NIC deductions due for month ended 5 January 2021. (If you pay your tax electronically the due date is 22 January 2021) 19 January 2021 – Filing

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The transition period has ended

From the beginning of this month the Brexit transition period has ended. Negotiations to secure a trade agreement between the UK and the EU from 1 January 2021, have completed and we have a deal. Readers who import or export goods from or to the EU will now need to

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Concerned about tax payments due 31 January 2021?

UK taxpayers that file a tax return will need to pay a variety of self-assessment tax and NIC liabilities that will fall due at the end of January 2021. They include:   · The second payment on account for 2019-20 if deferred when first due 31 July 2020. · Any

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Parting shot from the Chancellor

For a man that has admitted he has concerns about the level of government funding committed to the support of businesses during the last nine months, Rishi Sunak’s disclosure last week that he is extending the furlough scheme to the end of April 2021 points to a deepening concern in

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Accounting for import VAT on your VAT return

From 1 January 2021, if your business is registered for VAT in the UK, you will need to consider how to treat VAT added to imports from the EU. Accounting for import VAT on your VAT Return means you will declare and recover import VAT on the same VAT Return,

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Possible crackdown on unfair employment clauses

The following update is copied from a government press release recently issued by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy. New proposed measures to allow workers’ greater freedom to find new or additional work were unveiled by Business Secretary Alok Sharma 4 December 2020. In a major win for

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What have we learnt from 2020?

To answer this question, we should take a look at a few adjectives that have been used to describe COVID-19’s effects on our personal and business lives. For example, unexpected, unprecedented, disruptive… Prior to the pandemic we assumed that tomorrow would turn out much like yesterday. Many businesses had become

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Summary of spending review 2021-22

A summary of the business elements of the recent Spending Review for next year are set out below: Continuing the UK’s recovery from coronavirus The Spending Review has set out the government’s intention to maintain support to protect jobs, businesses and livelihoods, while stimulating the UK’s economic recovery. In the

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Customs changes from 1 January 2021

Most smaller businesses will not have the resources to train and employ their own customs clearance staff in which case you may have to consider using a customs agent or broker. We have reproduced the advice on the GOV.UK website on this critical issue below. If you do import or

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