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Updated on 1 June 2026

Minimum wage, tax and benefits help for care workers

Domiciliary care workers can face some challenges when it comes to understanding their minimum wage, tax and benefit positions due to the nature of care work and the travel patterns involved. Here, we give you an overview of some of the main issues and tell you where to get more help.

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Updated on 6 April 2026

Care workers

Domiciliary care workers can face some challenges in the tax and benefit system, often due to their contractual arrangements and travel patterns. In these pages, we set out some of the issues related to zero hours contracts and varying work patterns and explain what to do if you are affected by ...

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Updated on 6 April 2026

Reporting and paying VAT

The introduction of Making Tax Digital for VAT, sometimes known as MTD for VAT, was the first phase of HM Revenue & Customs’ (HMRC) ‘Making Tax Digital’ program. Since April 2022 all VAT registered businesses, other than those which are exempt, are in scope of the Making Tax Digital for ...

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Updated on 6 April 2026

VAT when running a business

VAT is a complex tax that attracts strict penalties. On this page, we take you through some of the various VAT related issues you may have when in business as a sole trader, partnership or limited company. Please note we give no more than an overview here.

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Updated on 6 April 2026

Partnerships

If you don’t want to run your business as a sole trader or a limited company, then you might decide to run the business in partnership with others. This page explains what a partnership is and the tax issues partnerships should be aware of.

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Updated on 6 April 2026

Gig work - what to do if you are behind on your taxes

Outstanding tax issues can have long term consequences. Below, we explain more about the different issues that can arise and the support that is available to help you bring your tax affairs up to date. If your gig work has stopped or reduced and you are in significant difficulties we also explain ...

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