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Tax allowances frozen until April 2026
The financial impact of the Covid-19 pandemic is unprecedented and borrowing levels in 2020/21 of 16.9% of GDP represent the highest level of peacetime borrowing. To meet some of this cost, the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, announced in the 2021 Budget that various...
Gift Aid – Beware if your income falls
Where a Gift Aid declaration is made, the recipient charity or community amateur sports club can claim back basic rate tax on the donation. The donation is treated as made net of basic rate tax, meaning that for every £1 donated, the charity can claim back 25p, or to...
National Insurance contributions for 2021/22
The 2020/21 tax year starts on 6 April 2021. From that date, new thresholds apply for National Insurance purposes. Employees and Employers Employees pay primary Class 1 National Insurance contributions on their earnings, while secondary Class 1 contributions are...
IR35 and off-payroll working
What to do from 6 April 2021 if you provide services through an intermediary Prior to 6 April 2021, workers who provide their services to a private sector organisation through an intermediary, such as a personal service company, need to consider whether the IR35 rules...
Statutory payments from April 2021
By law, there are various statutory payments that an employer must make to an employee while the employee is absent from work due to the birth, adoption or death of a child. The employer must pay employees who meet the qualifying conditions at least the statutory...
National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage changes from April 2021
Under the minimum wage legislation, workers must be paid at least the statutory minimum wage for their age. There are two types of minimum wage – the National Living Wage (NLW) and the National Minimum Wage (NMW). From 1 April 2021, as well as the usual annual...
Electric cars from April 2021
For 2020/21, it was possible to enjoy an electric company car as a tax-free benefit. While this will no longer be the case for 2021/22, electric and low emission cars remain a tax-efficient benefit. How are electric cars taxed? Under the company car tax rules, a...
Have you started a Side Hustle in the past year?
Are you trading? Lockdown restrictions have forced many businesses to close temporarily and for people to look at potential Side Hustles. Selling goods or clothes online on sites such as eBay and Depop offers the opportunity to raise some much-needed cash in these...
Auto-enrolment – your current responsibilities as an employer
Auto-enrolment – Re-enrolment and re-declaration of compliance The Covid-19 pandemic has introduced many challenges for employers. However, despite the pandemic, their responsibilities in relation to auto-enrolment remain the same. The employer’s on-going duties...
Reclaiming SSP for periods of self-isolation
The Coronavirus Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme allows smaller employers to reclaim some or all of the Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) paid to employees who are absent from work due to a Coronavirus-related absence. Eligible employers An employer is eligible to use the...