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Published on 6 February 2020

HMRC’s use of certain powers – Tell us about your experience

HMRC are seeking evidence on the implementation of new powers given to them since 2012. By ‘powers’, we mean things that HMRC are allowed to do or to ask you to do – simple examples would be them asking you to fill in a tax return or charging you a penalty. ...

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Published on 30 January 2020

Tax return filers urged to check for Marriage Allowance error

HMRC say a glitch in their system that omitted Marriage Allowance claims from people’s Self Assessment tax calculations is fixed. Now LITRG is urging people who filed their 2018/19 tax return before 21 January using HMRC’s online system to check their calculation to ensure the Marriage Allowance cla...

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Published on 28 January 2020

Loan charge changes: what they mean... and what they don’t

Guidance and draft legislation on the loan charge, following Amyas Morse’s independent review and the government response, have now been published. The headline is that the loan charge remains in place, although some changes have been made. We await further clarification on some aspects from HMRC, b...

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Published on 23 January 2020

How to find last minute tax return help

The 2018/19 tax return online filing deadline is 31st January 2020. If you have a tax return to complete, but simply don’t know where to start – help is available, even at this late stage. Here we offer some tips on finding last minute tax return help, in the hope of encouraging people to deal with ...

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