HMRC has published details of the digital records it expects business who are mandated into Making Tax Digital for VAT 'MVD' to keep. This new guidance is probably sufficient (on the basics) for tax agents and bookkeepers but may be slightly baffling for un-represented taxpayers.

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This time we feature two of the most topical SME tax cases that you are likely to see for some time. We think we have the answer to the lock-jam that is Brexit, we have more on Making VAT Digital, offpayrolling, the loan charge (you must act now) and more VAT-y stuff too.

In Richard Villar v HMRC [2018] TC 6983 the FTT held that the sale of the business of an orthopaedic surgeon was a disposal of capital and not merely of a right to income. 

Perhaps the one thing that everyone can agree on is that Brexit has become a national crisis and an embarrassment to us Brits. Nichola Ross Martin suggests a way out of the log jam.

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Some more interesting news on the 'disguised remuneration' loan charge this week. It turns out that one of the major promoters of self employed disguised schemes did not notify the schemes under DOTAS. By co-incidence, there is a growing realisation that HMRC's estimates that only some 50,000 people are affected by the coming loan charge may be woefully low.