Issue 1482

Analysis

• Covid-19: a cross-jurisdictional tax update
• UK asset holding company consultation: the thick end of the wedge
• Notifying HMRC of uncertain tax treatments: transparency or confusion?
• The VAT review for April 2020
• Contentious tax: quarterly review

In brief

• Will company directors be thrown a lifeline?
• Covid-19: support via the tax system
• Covid-19: measures to support the self-employed
• UK residence: exceptional days

News

• Chancellor announces coronavirus support for the self-employed
• HMRC extends MTD deadline for digital links
• Digital services tax guidance published
• Reporting public sector off-payroll workers in RTI returns
• HMRC updates worldwide subsistence rates
• CIOT guide to working from home
• Companies House extends filing deadline
• Oil and gas taxation: decommissioning relief deeds
• National minimum wage rates
• Statutory sick pay easements during Covid-19 outbreak
• Indexation of allowances for 2020/21
• Pensions lifetime allowance increase
• Indexation of chargeable amounts for ATED
• Chancellor waives import duty and VAT on medical supplies
• Scottish landfill tax rates
• Finance Bill 2019/20
• Tax avoidance spotlight on umbrella companies targeting NHS returnees
• HMRC suspends non-statutory clearance applications by post
• HMRC guidance: 1 April 2020
• HMRC manuals update: 2 April 2020

Cases

• Spring 2020 review

One minute with

• One minute with… John Whiting