Some workers, especially those delivering goods or takeaways in the gig economy, may be struggling to earn enough money. If options for other work are limited, benefits can be a lifeline. But what if you are behind on your taxes? Does this mean you can’t claim benefits?
HMRC are now automatically signing up VAT-registered businesses to its new Making Tax Digital (MTD) for VAT programme. These are businesses which should have enrolled into MTD already.1 Under MTD, businesses need to keep their VAT records digitally if they do not already do so and ...
If you are VAT registered, you should now be within Making Tax Digital (MTD). This means you should be filing VAT returns through MTD compliant software since it became mandatory for you to do so from April 2022 at the latest. If you have not managed to get to grips with the MTD requirements ...
For some time, LITRG have been raising concerns about certain tax refund companies with HMRC, around deeds or letters of assignment. Earlier this year we were contacted by several taxpayers who claimed refunds through one company – Tax Credits Limited (TCL). These taxpayers seemed unaware that a ...
Salary advance schemes have been with us for some years, with numerous companies now promoting them through all areas of the labour market. HMRC have now confirmed what LITRG have been concerned about – that they are not compliant with current tax law. HMRC plan to introduce changes to legislation ...
Whilst welcoming today’s announcement that benefits, including universal credit, will rise by 10.1% from April 2023, LITRG are highlighting that some self-employed universal credit claimants may not see the full value of the rise. This is because the artificial minimum income floor that is applied ...