What to do if you receive one of HMRC’s ‘nudge’ letters

HMRC believes that not everyone is paying the correct amount of tax, estimating what it terms as ‘the tax gap’ as being ‘4.8% of total theoretical tax liabilities, or £35.8 billion in absolute terms, in the 2021 to 2022 tax year’. HMRC...

Relevant motoring expenditure and NIC – Are you due a refund?

For tax purposes, where an employee uses their own car for work, mileage allowances can be paid tax-free up to the approved amount, which is simply the business mileage for the year multiplied by the approved rate (which for cars and vans is set at 45p per mile for...

Register to payroll benefits in kind

Employers can opt to deal with taxable benefits in kind through the payroll (known as ‘payrolling’) rather than reporting them to HMRC after the end of the tax year on the employee’s P11D. However, this is only possible if the employer is registered to payroll the...

Making pension contributions before 6 April 2024

As the end of the tax year approaches, it is prudent to review your pension contributions for the year and consider whether it is worth making further contributions before 6 April 2024. Remember, any annual allowances brought forward from 2020/21will be lost if not...