NEWS

HMRC’s pension schemes newsletter 159 (April 2024) provides various updates, including the following:Public service pensions remedy: Pension Scheme newsletter 156 has been updated to confirm that, where interest is paid as required by an employment...

This roundup sets out the most important changes to HMRC manuals over the past week as curated by our editors.  

HMRC is running a series of external engagement events across May 2024 to hear views on the non-dom policy changes that were announced at Spring Budget 2024. Anyone who wants to attend any of the sessions is asked to register their interest by 3 May...

At Tax Administration and Maintenance Day on 18 April 2024, the UK government set out the following four policy announcements (introduced in an accompanying written statement by Nigel Hiddleston, Financial Secretary to the Treasury).Consultation on...

HMRC has revised its guidance on the construction industry scheme for businesses based outside the UK, to update the online registration process for non-resident limited companies to apply for gross payment status....

Pinsent Masons reports that HMRCs specialist compliance team dealing with IR35 investigations has 45 full-time staff, with access to additional resource where needed. The 2021 off-payroll working changes, which shifted the burden of applying...

The Institute for Fiscal Studies has produced a ‘comment’ section on potential reforms to IHT which could include removing some of the existing reliefs which, says the IFS, would ‘make the system fairer, and raise revenues that could be used to...

HMRC has updated its guidance on ordinary commuting and private travel to add a new section (at 3.39) with a basic example covering the situation where an employee takes up their employer’s offer of hybrid working and voluntarily works a number of...

HMRC Brief 5/2024 confirms that businesses can choose to apply the Tour Operator’s Margin Scheme (TOMS) to business-to-business wholesale supplies and that, by concession, tour operators can opt B2B wholesale supplies out of TOMS.HMRC says that this...

HMRC has added the Memorandum of Understanding between the UK and Isle of Man, on the article 25 arbitration procedure in unresolved disagreement cases involving double taxation, to its tax treaty pages. Article 25 (based on article 25 of the OECD...