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Autumn Statement 2022 – key tax announcements
Autumn Statement 2022 – key tax announcements

The Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, has given his first Autumn Statement. We have highlighted below some of the key tax announcements made by the Chancellor:   Personal tax thresholds The Chancellor has announced that personal tax thresholds will be frozen for a further...

Spring Statement 2022

Spring Statement 2022 Against a backdrop of rising inflation, Chancellor Rishi Sunak presented his first Spring Statement on Wednesday 23 March 2022. In his Spring Statement, the Chancellor announced a cut in fuel duty for petrol and diesel as he sought to ease the...

HMRC updates Salary Sacrifice guidance

HMRC updates Salary Sacrifice guidance HMRC has removed the guidance on 'Salary sacrifice arrangements set up before 6 April 2017' as the transitional arrangements for calculating the value of the benefit came to an end on 5 April 2021. A salary sacrifice arrangement...

Coronavirus Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme
Coronavirus Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme

Coronavirus Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme If you are an employer, you may be entitled to use the Coronavirus Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme. The government is set to launch this online scheme on 26 May 2020. This scheme is aimed at small and medium-sized...

Self-Employment Income Support Scheme Applications are open
Self-Employment Income Support Scheme Applications are open

Who can Claim? If you are a member of a partnership or self-employed and: you traded in the tax year 2018 to 2019 and submitted your Self Assessment tax return on or before 23 April 2020 for that year. you traded in the tax year 2019 to 2020. you intend to continue to...

New guidance on the Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme
New guidance on the Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme

New guidance on the Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme   The Chancellor announced a new coronavirus Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme in the Budget 2020.  HMRC have now published new online guidance about it which includes information about who can use the scheme...

Self-employment Income Support Scheme
Self-employment Income Support Scheme

On 26 March the Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced his plans to support the self-employed during the COVID-19 pandemic. In some ways it is very similar to the previously announced Job Retention Scheme. The Self-Employment Income Support Scheme allows self-employed...

Hawsons are here to help COVID-19
Hawsons are here to help COVID-19

During this difficult time Hawsons are here to help and support their clients as best they can The Government has announced new measures to help businesses through this difficult time. The first being the tax helpline to support businesses affected by coronavirus. If...

Bank of England Update for Businesses and Households
Bank of England Update for Businesses and Households

Bank of England Update for Businesses and Households During this difficult time for businesses and households, the Bank of England has put together a list of sites where you can find the latest updates from the Government. The following has been circulated by the bank...

Autumn Statement 2022 – key tax announcements
Autumn Statement 2022 – key tax announcements

The Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, has given his first Autumn Statement. We have highlighted below some of the key tax announcements made by the Chancellor:   Personal tax thresholds The Chancellor has announced that personal tax thresholds will be frozen for a further...

Spring Statement 2022

Spring Statement 2022 Against a backdrop of rising inflation, Chancellor Rishi Sunak presented his first Spring Statement on Wednesday 23 March 2022. In his Spring Statement, the Chancellor announced a cut in fuel duty for petrol and diesel as he sought to ease the...

HMRC updates Salary Sacrifice guidance

HMRC updates Salary Sacrifice guidance HMRC has removed the guidance on 'Salary sacrifice arrangements set up before 6 April 2017' as the transitional arrangements for calculating the value of the benefit came to an end on 5 April 2021. A salary sacrifice arrangement...