In early 2019 the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) launched a National Minimum Wage consultation on salaried workers and salary sacrifice schemes. The response has now been published.
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In LINPAC Group Holdings Ltd v HMRC [2020] TC7556, the First Tier Tribunal (FTT) found that EU group relief claims did not replace earlier domestic claims to relief. The UK claims remained valid.
HMRC have advised that as income tax thresholds and rates will not now be finalised until March, tax codes for 2020/21 will have to be initially calculated using 2019/20 rates and then revised as necessary after the budget.
Hello,
I gave a talk on the new Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) reverse charge VAT measures (due to apply in October) this week. My chatty audience asked many questions and we worked through many of the practicalities of implementing the changes that are required to reverse charge your supplies. I am not sure that any of my software currently allows me to use both cash and accruals accounting at the same time and I wonder how many people have actually tried a ‘walk through’ of a typical construction contract under the proposed measures. I recommend that you have a go.
In John Leonard McNeill Shelford as Trustee of the Herbert Life Interest Trust Settlement & Ors v HMRC [2019] TC7549, the First Tier Tribunal found that a home loan scheme was not effective IHT planning. The transactions were void and the assets remained in the estate on death.
In Castlelaw (No 628) Limited and Irene Douglas v HMRC [2020] TC7540, the First Tier Tribunal upheld penalties under the Senior Accounting Officer rules for failures to make notifications about a dormant company. An innocent mistake was not a reasonable excuse.
The statutory legacy amount due to a surviving spouse or civil partner when an individual has died intestate has been increased for the first time in over 5 years.
HMRC have announced a change to the extension of the off-payroll rules (IR35) to the private sector which will now only apply to payments made for services provided on or after 6 April 2020.
In Nicholas Walewski v HMRC [2020] TC7554, the First Tier Tribunal dismissed an appeal against a reallocation of the profits of mixed-member LLPs to an individual partner. There was no evidence the profit allocations were for any reason other than the individual’s power to enjoy them.
The Law Commission has published a new report about the use and validity of electronic signatures on documents.