[email protected] If you use averaging to smooth out your farm profits, you may have been wondering whether Making Tax Digital will apply to you from April 2026. If that’s the case, you are not alone. When the one-year reprieve was first announced before Christmas, it...
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New HMRC Service Lets You Take Control of Your PAYE Tax – Here’s What You Need to Know
As part of H M Revenue & Customs goal to achieve being digital by 2030, with 90% of customer interactions being online, today they have announced a new online service for workers to take control of their tax affairs. To stay in line with the current technology...
Making Tax Digital for Income Tax
Following numerous delays, Making Tax Digital for Income Tax (MTD for IT) is only a year away from being made compulsory for individuals with an annual gross rental income and/or a gross self-employed income of over £50,000. The income threshold will be lowered over...
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...
Autumn Statement 2022
Autumn Statement 2022 On 17 November 2022, the government undertook the third fiscal statement in as many months, against a backdrop of rising inflation and economic recession. The Chancellor laid out three core priorities of stability, growth and public services. The...
MTD: Digital start dates and the reform of basis periods
Making Tax Digital for income tax is being introduced on 6 April 2024. It will affect self-employed individuals and landlords with annual business or property income above £10,000. For general partnerships, the start date has been set at 6 April 2025. LLPs will join...
Mini Budget – September 2022
Chancellor brings forward further medium-term fiscal plan measures As the saying goes, a week is a long time in politics. However, recent events have been unprecedented. At the Mini Budget a new Prime Minister and Chancellor launched a new agenda, ‘The Growth Plan’....
Mini-budget announcement – 5 key tax changes
Following the recent appointment of the new Prime Minister, Liz Truss. There has been a cabinet reshuffle with Kwasi Kwarteng appointed Chancellor. Following his appointment, the new Chancellor announced a ‘Mini-budget’ which took place this morning. This was one of...
How to avoid penalties for Making Tax Digital for VAT?
Filing VAT returns Businesses must file their VAT returns using functional compatible software. Most businesses are doing this successfully, but those who do not may be charged a £400 penalty for each VAT return filed. Keeping records digitally Businesses must also...
Tax Rates and Allowances 2022/23
Introduction We have summarised the key rates and allowances which are fundamental to our business and personal lives. We are sure that you will find them a useful point of reference and have set out below a few examples of how they can be used. Personal tax rates As...
VAT and Making Tax Digital
On 1 April 2019 (this was not a joke!!) HMRC introduced Making Tax Digital (MTD) for VAT. Businesses above the current VAT threshold of £85,000 have since needed to submit their VAT returns using “functional compatible software”. As of 1 April 2022, all VAT...
Hawsons makes history as 2019 marks 165 years in business
Hawsons Chartered Accountants turned 165 years old in 2019 Hawsons Chartered Accountants was founded in the city of Sheffield in 1854 – more than 25 years before the creation of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales – by Alfred Allott and John...








