28 March 2025| CATEGORIES: HMRC, HMRC consultation, Spring Statement 2025, Tax, tax compliance| TAGS: penalty regime, public consultations, Spring Statement, tax avoidance, tax measures
The UK chancellor, Rachel Reeves, delivered her Spring Statement this week. While no tax rises were announced, details of a number of key tax related measures and new consultations were published in the accompanying documentation.
20 March 2025| CATEGORIES: digitalisation, e-invoicing, HMRC, HMRC consultation, tax compliance| TAGS: AI, consultations, customs simplifications, e-invoicing, HMRC
At an event marking the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of HMRC, Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, James Murray MP, delivered a speech reflecting on the past 20 years and highlighting plans for the future of the tax authority.
19 September 2024| CATEGORIES: HMRC, process controls, VAT guidelines| TAGS: New HMRC guidelines, VAT compliance
HMRC has published its Guidelines for Compliance (GfC8) – Help with VAT Compliance Controls to help businesses assess whether they have sufficient controls within their systems and VAT accounting and compliance processes. The guidance sets out what HMRC considers to be good practice.
10 July 2024| CATEGORIES: HMRC, Online VAT tool, VAT registration| TAGS: HMRC, Online tool, VAT registration estimator
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has launched a digital tool to help businesses estimate what registering for VAT may mean for them. The VAT Registration Estimator has been developed after feedback from small businesses suggested an online tool would be helpful to show when their turnover could require businesses to register for VAT and its effect on profits.
6 March 2024| CATEGORIES: customer service, HMRC| TAGS: customer service, HMRC, PAC report
A Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report into HMRC performance in 2022-23 has concluded that the level of customer service at HMRC “has reached an all-time low”. The Committee received an unprecedented number of written submissions about HMRC’s performance, demonstrating the extent of taxpayers’ dissatisfaction over the quality of services and the impact on businesses.
27 February 2024| CATEGORIES: e-Commerce, EU VAT, HMRC, IOSS| TAGS: e-commerce, HMRC, IOSS, Northern Ireland
From 1 March 2024, businesses in Northern Ireland or Norway, which sell low-value goods imported from outside the EU and Northern Ireland to customers inside those regions can register with HMRC to use the import one stop shop (IOSS) system. Currently, Northern Irish businesses are only able to register for the IOSS in an EU member state.
13 June 2023| CATEGORIES: digital newspapers, HMRC, Supreme Court, VAT rates| TAGS: HMRC, VAT
HMRC have published RCB 6 (2023) which provides an update on the VAT treatment of digital publications following the Supreme Court judgment in the News Corp UK & Ireland Ltd case. HMRC is writing to organisations that submitted claims for overpaid VAT based on the earlier Upper Tribunal decision to establish whether they intended to proceed with their appeals given the Supreme Court decision.
18 January 2022| CATEGORIES: HMRC, VAT penalty regime| TAGS: New HMRC rules, VAT News, VAT penalty changes
The Government has announced a delay to the introduction of the new penalty regime for VAT. The new system had been due to come into effect from 1 April 2022, however, this has been delayed by nine months until 1 January 2023.
2 December 2021| CATEGORIES: Certificate of Status, HMRC, VAT refund| TAGS: Brexit, HMRC, VAT refund
HMRC have changed the way they issue the certificate of status (CoS) to UK businesses. The CoS, which often needs to be included with foreign VAT refund claims as proof of UK trading status, is now issued by email by default.
7 October 2021| CATEGORIES: HMRC, Tax, Tax gap, VAT| TAGS: HMRC, Tax gap, VAT
The tax gap for the 2019/20 tax year is 5.3%, which represents £35 billion, according to statistics recently published by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). The total tax gap for Value Added Tax (VAT) is £12.3 billion.
