Overview You may have taken advantage of the deferred VAT scheme. If you did, you should read this note. Deferred VAT Penalty If you do not pay your Deferral VAT in full or make an arrangement to pay by 30 June 2021, you may be charged a 5% penalty and interest. How to avoid the penalty Basically, you need to do one […]
Find out morePurpose of note “Reclaiming VAT for overseas businesses” This note explains how an overseas business that is not allowed to register for UK VAT can still reclaim import and other UK VAT. This situation often applies to overseas companies active in UK construction projects. I have written it in response to a number of questions […]
Find out moreAim of note The aim of this note is to summarise some of the policies announced in yesterday’s budget. I have selected the points that are most likely to be relevant to our clients. The list is not meant to be comprehensive. You can see a summary of the points here and the full budget […]
Find out moreOverview HMRC recently provided an update of their VAT deferral scheme. This note summarises HMRC’s guidance, You can read the guidance in full here. The VAT deferral scheme Basically, if you deferred VAT payments at the start of COVID (between 20 March and 30 June 2020) and you still have payments to make, you can […]
Find out moreOverview From 1st January 2021 (post Brexit) new rules apply for accounting for import and export VAT. This has made recording imports and exports on Xero quite a lot harder. This note explains some of the new rules and how to record import and export transactions in Xero. You can see a similar note for […]
Find out moreOverview From 1st January 2021 (post Brexit) new rules apply for accounting for import and export VAT. This has made recording imports and exports on QuickBooks quite a lot harder. This note explains some of the new rules and how to record import and export transactions in QuickBooks. You can see a similar note for […]
Find out moreOverview The aim of this note is to explain some of the new VAT rules that overseas sellers will need to follow after Brexit. In this context an overseas seller is a business that is established outside of the UK and doesn’t have an establishment within the UK. The changes are reasonably complex because there are […]
Find out moreOverview The aim of the offshore funds rules is to make sure that income earned by the fund is taxed as income, ideally in the year the income is earned. If it wasn’t for these rules the investor would not pay tax on income retained or reinvested by the fund but would instead pay capital […]
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