During Prime Minister's questions, prime minister Boris Johnson told MPs that he had 'undertaken to have a thoroughgoing review' of the Disguised Remuneration loan charge. The timing of any review hangs in the balance: it depends on the various outcomes of parliament's activities over the next few months and the PM's plans to call a general election.
SME Tax News
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In this week's web-update: news on Making Tax Digital for Income tax as well as VAT, useful cases and much more.
In Paul Nowak v HMRC [2019] TC7307 an engineer's claim for travel expense was disallowed: he worked on different contracts not a single contract covering multiple different workplaces. A discovery assessment was allowed on the basis that his accountant had acted carelessly.
In The Quentin Skinner 2005 Settlements v HMRC [2019] TC7312 the FTT approved an Entrepreneurs relief claim on a sale of shares by a trust: the 1 year period did not have to be met by a qualifying beneficiary if they already met the personal company conditions for shares held personally.
In Andreas Rialas v HMRC [2019] TC07316 the FTT found the Transfer of Assets abroad rules did not apply to dividend income: Mr Rialas was not the transferor of shares acquired by his offshore family trust from his former business partner.
The Office of Tax Simplification is asking self employed taxpayers and residential landlords to complete two online surveys as part of its current project on simplifying tax reporting and payment arrangements for these taxpayers.
Missed our SME Tax Web-updates in August? Here is a summary of the month.
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This time: Off-payroll working rules will increase your chances of investigation. Is software ready for the CIS VAT reverse charge? The latest trusts and estates newsletter and changes to employee fuel rates.
Up to 170,000 Personal Service Companies (PSCs) are likely to be affected by the Off-payroll working rules which come in from next April according to HMRC. These changes could result in a windfall of IR35 tax Discovery cases for HMRC and a resultant tax-hell for PSCs and their owners.
With a month to go before the introduction of the VAT reverse charge mechanism to the Contruction Industry, there are signs that some of the top selling accounting and bookkeeping software for small business is not yet ready for the changes.