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Latest News for Business (Archive)

May 2025
  • Sole traders and landlords get Making Tax Digital warning
  • Loan charge review calls for evidence
  • Companies House begins to verify identities
  • Chancellor unveils plans to maintain level playing field for British business
  • Tax red tape costs small businesses nearly £25 billion a year
  • Government calls time on red tape for pubs, clubs, and restaurants
  • Government taking right approach to tariff negotiations
  • Latest guidance for employers
April 2025
  • Minimum wage rose on 1 April
  • No further tax increases in Spring Statement
  • Finance Act 2025 receives Royal Assent
  • Side hustle trading threshold raised to £3,000 per year
  • Financial benefit of MTD could be as high as £915 million
  • Chancellor unveils plan to cut red tape
  • Employment reforms continue to stifle business hiring intentions
March 2025
  • Government consults on mandatory e-invoicing
  • Proposed HMRC powers to collect data on hours worked scrapped
  • Business tax compliance costs £15 billion a year
  • Tailored tax reliefs boost alcohol sector
  • Businesses warn of National Insurance 'powder keg'
  • HMRC cuts late and repayment interest rates
  • Latest guidance for employers
  • Advisory fuel rates for company cars
February 2025
  • Parliamentary watchdog accuses HMRC of deliberately 'degrading' phone services
  • Government commissions review of the Loan Charge
  • CIOT calls on government to rewrite unfair VAT rules
  • Pension reforms to 'unlock billions' for government growth agenda
  • UK firms expecting slowdown
  • Employment plan will harm jobs, warns small firms
  • UK economy returns to growth as inflation dips
  • IMF upgrades UK's economic outlook
January 2025
  • HMRC urges self assessment taxpayers to spread the cost
  • HMRC could save millions of hours with tracking system
  • Government launches Industrial Strategy Advisory Council
  • Spring Statement set for 26 March
  • UK economy shrinks for second month in a row
  • Cash usage on the rise for second successive year
  • Over 40,000 file self assessment over the Christmas break
  • Latest guidance for employers
December 2024
  • Permanent business rate cut for high street on the way
  • HMRC warns landlords to disclose earnings
  • No tax changes for online sellers
  • Business frustrated at halt in rollout of digital trade platform
  • Employer NICs rise may have unforeseen consequences
  • Scams warning as self assessment deadline looms
  • HMRC late payment interest cut
  • Advisory fuel rates for company cars
November 2024
  • Chancellor promises to drive growth and raises £40 billion in taxes
  • Autumn Budget - the business reaction
  • National Living Wage rises by 6.7%
  • New tipping law comes into force
  • Make Work Pay threatens employment and growth warns FSB
  • New Growth and Skills Levy must end 'cycle of failure'
  • 10,000 boost State Pension with online payments
  • Latest guidance for employers
October 2024
  • IPSE calls for fairer off-payroll rules in Budget
  • Billion-pound tax bombshell to hit hospitality, warns trade body
  • Reforms to IHT, CGT and NI 'could raise over £20 billion a year'
  • Government announces apprenticeship reforms
  • HMRC urged to take action to defuse side hustle time bomb
  • £5.5 billion lost as a result of tax evasion
  • Young people reminded to reclaim government savings
  • Government cracks down on late payments
September 2024
  • HMRC failing on responsiveness, says Charter report
  • HMRC sends 'nudge letters' to crypto investors
  • HMRC late payment interest cut
  • Scrap fuel duty cut, says RAC
  • Freelancers want to see fairer, simpler tax system from Autumn Budget
  • UK has record number of self-employed workers aged 60 or over
  • Advisory fuel rates for company cars
  • Latest guidance for employers
August 2024
  • Chancellor takes difficult decisions as Budget date set
  • King's Speech pledges to secure economic growth
  • HMRC launches VAT Registration Estimator
  • UK announces National Wealth Fund
  • British Business Bank launches Growth Guarantee Scheme
  • HMRC to send Simple Assessment tax statements to pensioners
  • UK's economic recovery putting down roots
  • Latest guidance for employers
July 2024
  • Business ready to work in partnership with Labour government
  • Tax gap at record high
  • HMRC has not fined a single enabler of offshore tax evasion
  • UK economy grew by more than previously estimated during first quarter
  • Average earnings just £16 a week higher than 2010
  • EU trade deal not working for UK business, warns BCC
  • UK's investment rates worse than every other G7 country
  • Savers dangerously underestimating minimum cost of retirement
June 2024
  • Next government will need to build trust between HMRC and self-employed
  • Revitalise 'Brand Britain', says CBI
  • HMRC error means self-employed workers could lose out on state pension
  • Taxpayers spend total of 800 years waiting to speak to HMRC
  • Retirees report £119,000 shortfall in pension savings
  • 300,000 file tax returns in the first week of the tax year
  • Inflation falls after UK moves out of recession
  • Advisory fuel rates for company cars
May 2024
  • MTD for Income Tax pilot now live
  • IR35 reforms taking their toll on skilled contractors
  • Government urged to implement reforms to R&D tax system
  • HMRC clarifies tax rules for WFH commuting
  • HMRC launches online voluntary NICs payment service
  • UK borrowing reduces Chancellor's wiggle room
  • More than seven million adults still struggling to pay bills, finds FCA
  • Latest guidance for employers
Recent news

06 May 2025

Sole traders and landlords get Making Tax Digital warning

Sole traders and landlords with an income over £50,000 have been warned that there is less than a year before they will be required to use Making Tax Digital for Income Tax (MTD for IT).

06 May 2025

Loan charge review calls for evidence

The independent review into the loan charge has issued a call for evidence with examples of promotional material and marketing leaflets a priority for the review team.

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