How keen is the UK, in general, to embrace HMRC’s Making Tax Digital (MTD) initiative? Are we lagging behind other countries in adopting a digital system and have we gone far enough to digitise all business processes, rather than just the integration with the tax system?
MTD
Making Tax Digital for Income Tax Self-Assessment
HMRC has widened the pilot and simplified the quarterly requirements of Making Tax Digital for Income Tax Self-Assessment or MTD for ITSA for taxpayers with gross income from self-employment between £10,000 and the £85,000 VAT threshold, but many are concerned that the trial is too limited, the timescale too tight and the detail too brief to mean taxpayers will be ready for the April 2024 deadline.
Help To Grow: Digital support scheme
Is your business looking to grow by adopting digital technologies? We take a look at the Government’s Help To Grow: Digital Scheme.
Regular check ups on the financial health of your business
Regular check ups on the financial health of your business, particularly on cashflow, let you spot and resolve potential problems before they become major issues.
HMRC delays Making Tax Digital for ITSA
Although the government has delayed its plans for the introduction of Making Tax Digital for ITSA (Income Tax Self-Assessment), Bates Weston urges self employed and landlords to make the move to digital record keeping sooner rather than later.
Penalties for late submissions to HMRC
A recap of HMRC’s proposals to reform the penalties for late submissions to a points based system.
Chartered Institute of Taxation responds to HMRC’s consultation on basis period reform
A summary of the Chartered Institute of Taxation’s response to HMRC’s consultation on proposed basis period reform, allocating trading profits to tax years rather than accounting years.
Making Tax Digital for Income Tax
How will making Tax Digital for Income Tax – MTD ITSA – affect your business? An explanation of HMRC’s current proposals.
Myth busting on Making Tax Digital
HMRC has decided to dispel some of the myths it believes surround Making Tax Digital for VAT. Among the myths they are challenging is that businesses don't know MTD is happening or what to do. They maintain that more than 80% of businesses had already started to make...
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