2020 news

If you have recently used a tax refund company to help claim a one-off refund, the paperwork that you signed may mean that they can continue to collect other tax refunds due to you. We have added some new guidance to our website which explains more about the issue and what can be done about it.

Flexible furlough is with us. You may find the amount and complexity of the official guidance on flexible furlough overwhelming as it tries to cover all situations and every eventuality! If you are a small employer with only a handful of staff and relatively straightforward working arrangements, it can be hard to pick through it all in order to find the bits that are relevant to you.

HMRC have written to around 1 million tax credit claimants after an error was discovered on the auto-renewal notices sent after 6 April 2020. This article explains what the letter means and answers questions you might have about it.

If you are employed and you now need to claim universal credit (UC) due to a reduction in your income, perhaps because your hours have been reduced or you are coming off furlough, you should be aware of how pay information is used for UC purposes and how this may affect the payments you receive.