We are all left disgruntled by the regular stories about global technology companies paying much less tax than their counterparts with traditional businesses; despite making huge profits in the UK. Given the enormous cost of [...]
Obviously the most devastating consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic is the loss of life and the subsequent grief. It is the burden of leadership to have to consider the multiple elements of a crisis simultaneously. [...]
The Scottish government has voted to prevent companies and individuals registered in tax havens from getting any government financial support to help them recover from the health pandemic. Basically, if you haven’t been paying in, [...]
Disappointingly, HMRC say they have received 795 reports of fraudulent furlough claims. They are not yet investigated, but they will be, and those who have defrauded the system will be prosecuted. What is the Coronavirus [...]
HMRC have announced that many of the policy consultations they have in the pipeline are now delayed. This is a totally understandable and sensible response, given their huge new workload dealing with the COIVD-19 crisis [...]
As an employee, if you’re ‘being furloughed’ it means that your job is being put on hold. The current national emergency has pressed pause on your work. You are still employed, you are still being [...]
HMRC is operating in the same strange new world as the rest of us. And many of us need their help to sort out the financial impact of the health crisis. This is the government [...]
It seems that there has always been a rather uneasy relationship between Richard Branson and the Treasury. The Virgin Groups’ reaction to the COVID-19 crisis has provoked an angry response from some quarters. It is [...]
HMRC have done a great job of putting together a self employed income support scheme in a very short space of time. Nothing’s perfect and there are still some groups of people that are not [...]
You need to protect yourself against these cyber criminals. And the only weapons you need are information and common sense. As our world morphs into something very different, criminals who earn their money through fraud [...]
