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Croner. Jason Hollands is managing director, corporate affairs at wealth manager Evelyn Partners. The Budget saw yet another rise income tax rates for savers and landlords, as chancellor hiked rates up to 49% for highest earners while PSA has been frozen for years. Jason Hollands, managing director at Evelyn Partners looks at potential mitigation. While the Budget u-turn on plans to cut the cash ISA allowance for people under 65 from next April will be welcomed by many savers

Jacob Grattage, Reporter, Business & Accountancy Daily. Croner. Both sellers and online platforms face estimated £48m costs as VAT collection rules tightened up in HMRC clampdown. The major change to VAT rules, confirmed at the Budget, is designed to clamp down on VAT fraud and evasion by UK VAT registered businesses selling on online platforms but not paying the correct tax. In future this will not be avoidable for many as the online marketplaces will have to pay the VAT dir

Sara White, Editor, Business & Accountancy Daily. Croner. Trebling of trading allowance to £3,000 will give taxpayers with small side hustles tax break from April. In the breathing space Budget, the new chancellor John Healey announced a threefold increase in the trading allowance from the current £1,000 to £3,000 with effect from 6 April 2027. The allowance provides relief for trading and miscellaneous income, and simplifies the system for taxpayers who choose to use the rel

Jacob Grattage, Reporter, Business & Accountancy Daily. Croner. Partners at accountancy firms and self employed will have to pay in-year tax, possibly quarterly, under major overhaul of self assessment system. Millions of self assessment taxpayers will have to pay tax either quarterly or monthly in a major shake-up of in-year payment on account rules from April 2029. Despite major opposition to a consultation on the proposals over the summer, the Treasury is going ahead with

Croner VIP Tax Team In this week’s Q&A, David Smith, adviser at Croner VIP Tax Team, explains the rules on VAT claims when renovating an empty property. Q. My client has purchased a residential property which has been derelict for over 10 years. He wants to renovate the property and resell once the work is completed. What are the VAT implications? A. Where work is carried out to an eligible dwelling that has not been lived in during the two years immediately before the work s

Sara White, Editor, Business & Accountancy Daily. Croner. With the final deadline for ID verification at Companies House less than a month away, one in four company directors still not verified. ID verification is mandatory for all directors on the Companies House register, with the initial transition period set to end on 17 November. But one in four UK registered directors have not verified their identity yet with 807,000 individuals having already missed their ID deadline.

CIPD HR-inform. Croner. With the clocks going back on Sunday 25 October, our Croner HR experts explain how this affects pay calculations. Q: How do I deal with the clocks changing? My business partner and I own a late-night opening bar in a busy city centre. Our clients generally come in ‘after the party’, as we’re open until 3am. We’ve had a question from an employee about how we will deal with the clocks changing at daylight savings time. They’re asking if they will get pai

Sara White, Editor, Business & Accountancy Daily. Croner. Letters going out to taxpayers from HMRC saying they have not filed first quarterly MTD submission correctly as failed to complete both income streams. Accountants are experiencing early day teething problems with Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Income Tax filing as some submissions were sent in without complete qualifying income details. At the time of submission of the first quarterly update, agents received a successfu

Sara White, Editor, Business & Accountancy Daily. Croner. Government backs down on plans to require smallest businesses to file profit and loss accounts, and balance sheets at Companies House. The decision to ‘pause’ the controversial new reporting requirement was dropped ahead of the Budget as the prime minister Andy Burnham met with small business leaders in the new No10 North. The planned start date of April 2028 has now been abandoned, with the government saying the accou

Croner. Deadline for registering for self assessment for 2025–26 to notify HMRC of chargeability to income tax and capital gains tax. October 2026 1 October Corporation tax due for accounting periods ended 31 December 2025 where not payable by instalments 5 October Deadline for registering for self assessment for 2025–26 to notify HMRC of chargeability to income tax and / or capital gains tax 7 October VAT returns and paymen

Sarah Coles, Head of personal finance, AJ Bell. Croner. Sarah Coles, head of personal finance at AJ Bell, says it’s important to filter out the Budget noise but there are ways to make some efficient tax savings before the big day. There are lots of sensible ways to save tax that people can use before the Budget on 28 October. A higher rate taxpayer could save up to £8,500 by combining tax savings from six scenarios such as paying a lump sum into a pension to generate valuable

CIPD HR-inform Stacie Cheadle, technical writer at Croner, explains the issues for employers to consider when supporting women going through menopause, and the move to mandatory reporting for larger businesses. World Menopause Awareness Day takes place on 18 October 2026 to raise global awareness about menopause and the health challenges women face as a result of it. As the impact of the menopause on women becomes more widely recognised, employers are increasingly adapting wo

Jacob Grattage, Reporter, Business & Accountancy Daily. Croner. As another million taxpayers are about to be dragged into Making Tax Digital, 39% of HMRC approved MTD software cannot file vital year end report. Analysis of HMRC’s Making Tax Digital for Income Tax (MTD) software finder tool by LetCompliance, a landlord specialist, found that 65 of the 165 listed products cannot currently file year-end reports, equivalent to 39% of the market. Of the 165 software products on th

Croner. Paul Robbins CTA ACA and Julien Gruhier answer our Q&A on what is Croner Intelligence, our brand new virtual assistant, created specifically for accountants and tax professionals, and why it is totally different from generic AI tools. Welcome to this Q&A on Croner Intelligence with Paul Robbins CTA ACA, director of tax content and consultancy at Croner, and Julien Gruhier, director of search and generative AI. What is Croner Intelligence and why is it different from

Croner VIP Tax Team In this week’s Q&A, Ayesha Choudhury, adviser at Croner VIP Tax Team, explains the intricacies of close company waived loans and potential corporation tax charges. Q. Two shareholders loaned money to a close company; they are sisters of the other shareholder. In 2022, the shares owned by the two sisters were transferred to the remaining sister who is now the new shareholder with 100% of the shares. The loans that were made by those sisters when they were s

Sara White, Editor, Business & Accountancy Daily After HMRC forced to automatically enrol third of first cohort of Making Tax Digital (MTD) due to non-compliance, it is advising the million plus £30,000 earners to prepare early and sign up. With six months to go until Making Tax Digital is extended to sole traders and landlords with qualifying income over £30,000, HMRC is ramping up communications to ensure as many of the 1,077,000 taxpayers affected by the extension sign up

Jacob Grattage, Reporter, Business & Accountancy Daily. Croner. Leader of the Conservatives Kemi Badenoch wants to cut all inheritance tax bills and allow couples to pass on an additional £1m tax free. Speaking at the last day of the Conservative party conference in Birmingham, leader of the opposition, Kemi Badenoch, has promised sweeping tax cuts if elected at next general election, telling delegates: ‘No stamp duty when you buy your home, no mansion tax when you live in yo

Jacob Grattage, Reporter, Business & Accountancy Daily. Croner. Policy chief at HMRC Jonathan Athow describes ‘deliberately created’ flexible filing model for Making Tax Digital but acknowledges end of year filing could be challenging. HMRC has sought to reassure taxpayers over gaps in year-end filing functionality ahead of the extension of Making Tax Digital (MTD) to more than one million taxpayers with qualifying income over £30,000 from 6 April 2027. HMRC recently froze al

Sara White, Editor, Business & Accountancy Daily. Croner. HMRC clarifies guidance on how to verify the identity of an HMRC officer or collector if they contact you in person at your home or office to prevent doorstep scammers. With rising levels of fraud and doorstep imposters, HMRC has updated guidance on how to check the veracity of HMRC representatives if they arrive at your premises or home. When an HMRC official visits your premises, it is essential to check their identi

Croner. David Truman, partner, private client at Menzies explains the common mistakes and tax traps for people reporting quarterly under Making Tax Digital from receipts and expenses to allowable deductions and defining income. The first quarterly deadline for Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Income Tax has been and gone on 7 August, bringing a new system into effect for hundreds of thousands of sole traders and landlords. From April 2026, people with more than £50,000 of qualify