At the start of each new tax year (from 6 April) there are changes to minimum wage rates, tax rates and other rates. If you are employed, these changes might affect your ‘take home pay’ or ‘net pay’ – that is the money that ends up in your bank account when you are paid by your employer.
The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) welcomes the changes to National Insurance for the self-employed announced in today’s Spring Statement. The threshold for paying both Class 2 and Class 4 National Insurance contributions (NIC) will be fully aligned with the threshold for paying income tax ...
LITRG is warning taxpayers who have not yet paid or agreed a payment plan with HMRC for their 2020/21 Self Assessment tax liability that they only have a week left to avoid a penalty. If any of the 2020/21 liability remains outstanding on 2 April 2022, taxpayers will be charged a penalty of five ...
The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) broadly welcomes today’s announcement1 in the Spring Statement that the government will align the starting point for paying2 class 1 employee and class 4 self-employed National Insurance ...
Around 2.3 million people in the UK are thought to own cryptoassets. If you are one of them, make sure you consider if you need to report and pay tax to HMRC on your cryptoasset activities.
The Making Tax Digital (MTD) rules were first introduced in April 2019 for all VAT registered businesses except for those voluntarily registered for VAT. Next month the MTD for VAT rules are being extended so that all VAT registered businesses must follow them from 1 April 2022 onwards unless they ...