20,000 taxpayers use ‘time to pay’ for self-assessment

More than 20,000 people have used HMRC’s monthly payment plan to spread the cost of their self-assessment tax bill since April 2021, recent statistics show. A total of £46 million has been paid under the Treasury’s time-to-pay scheme in this tax year so far. The...

Long delays with issuing UTR codes

HMRC is experiencing huge delays in processing requests for unique taxpayer reference (UTR) codes, according to a report. Some 407,510 startups were created during the 2020/21 tax year, despite the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. Those who are...

Autumn Budget 2021: key personal announcements

Capital gains tax property payment window extended Not included in the speech, but an important announcement nonetheless, was a change to property payment window for capital gains tax. The deadline by which any capital gains tax on the sale of UK residential property...

AAT calls for extension to capital gains reporting deadline

Ahead of this week's Budget, the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) has called on the Government to double the current 30-day reporting deadline for capital gains tax on residential property to 60 days. The reporting requirement, which came into effect in...

Most people do nothing to reduce potential IHT bill

Seven in ten people face paying a bigger inheritance tax (IHT) bill than they might need to, a survey suggests, despite the fact that four in ten are concerned about paying the tax. The research, co-sponsored by Canada Life and AKG, revealed that three-quarters of...