Monthly Archives: June 2015

David Cameron announces plans to double free childcare for working parents, with some families set to benefit as early as next year. Parents set to benefit from 30 hours of free childcare, with rollout to start from 2016 – a year earlier than planned. Childcare funding rates to increase, with review promised before summer. New […]

Communities Secretary Greg Clark is to announce landmark changes to spread home ownership to millions. Government confirmed in first Queen’s Speech measures including a ground-breaking Housing Bill Right to Buy to be extended to 1.3 million housing association tenants Sweeping new measures, including a Right to Build, to also boost house building Communities Secretary Greg […]

 1 June 2015 – Due date for Corporation Tax due for the year ended 31 August 2014.  19 June 2015 – PAYE and NIC deductions due for month ended 5 June 2015. (If you pay your tax electronically the due date is 22 June 2015.)  19 June 2015 – Filing deadline for the CIS300 monthly […]

A court order appointing a Provisional Liquidator was made by the High Court in March 2014 against Parkwell Investments Ltd, based in Wilmslow, Cheshire. The order removed the company’s officers and appointed a Provisional Liquidator in their place to protect the company’s remaining assets. The company’s officers then deliberately and knowingly acted in contempt of […]

Pensions’ automatic enrolment is not going to go away. Businesses have begun to receive notification of their staging date: the date on which pension arrangement under the scheme should be in place.  According to the Pensions Regulator’s commentary on automatic enrolment: “The law on workplace pensions has changed. Every employer with at least one member […]

In order to process the Finance Bill 2015 through the parliamentary procedures before the recent election, certain clauses were deferred. It is likely that the deferred clauses will be reintroduced in the summer Budget, 8 July 2015.  As announced, George Osborne will present his first Budget of the new parliament 8 July. The clauses that […]

Once you have registered your business for VAT the first thing you should consider is the possibility of reclaiming input tax on purchases of goods and services prior to registration.  This article summarises the issues you will need to consider for the two categories: goods and services. There’s a time limit for backdating claims for […]