The once American practice of offering unpaid internships for individuals to gain useful work experience is being investigated by the HMRC as contravening the national minimum wage. HMRC has been sent details of 100 companies accused of illegally using unpaid interns which the government has said...
All payroll liability payments are to be made to a central HMRC bank account with effect from this tax year (all employee pay dates made on or after the 6th April 2013). Please read the HMRC's notice below for further detail of how this...
The HMRC is continuing with its business record checks campaign to see if businesses are complying with their onerous business record keeping obligations. From November 2012, thousands of small business owners and self-employed people across the UK started to receive letters informing them that their business...
Ebay sellers receive tax warning Commercial traders are becoming a bigger feature of Ebay Sellers on the auction website Ebay are being warned to check if they need to register as self-employed with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and pay tax. Research suggests that about 68,000 people make...
To Chancellor George Osborne it is a simplification in a complex tax system. To its critics, it is a "granny tax". But what exactly does the most controversial measure in Wednesday's Budget mean for you? The change in age-related personal allowances - the amount of income that is tax-free -...