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Combatting money laundering, Pt 2

By: Alex Byrne Dishing the dirt Related articles Protecting against money laundering New anti-money laundering regulations KEY POINTS Tax practitioners should take care to ensure that clients are not tipped off about money laundering reports. Understanding when a suspicious activity … Continue reading →

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Money Laundering

Combatting money laundering By:  Alex Byrne 27 November 2018 Alex Byrne sets out the ways practitioners can protect themselves from the charge of money laundering and looks at published guidance. Related articles Protecting against money laundering New anti-money laundering regulations … Continue reading →

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Undeclared Tax

HMRC are focusing on people who have been in business for years or have perhaps rented property, and not told HMRC. They have launched a new publicity campaign – “HMRC are closing in on undeclared income”.  The campaign encourages people … Continue reading →

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Real Time Information (RTI) & Centralised Deductions (CD)

RTI is to be implemented for most employers from April 2013. Instead of employers just paying PAYE & National Insurance on the 19th of the month and filing an annual PAYE Return (P35), employers will now have to return details … Continue reading →

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Why the average UK company cant do what Starbucks can

Starbucks UK profits are apparently reduced by · Paying royalties (eg so the UK company can use Starbuck products/brand name) to another Starbucks company in another country with low tax rates · Buying raw material (coffee beans) through a Swiss … Continue reading →

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PAYE CHANGES

PAYE REVAMP STILL ALIVE AND WELL. I thought the proposals to revamp PAYE had died a death but reading past issues of Taxation I saw that a second  stage consultation had been issued by HMRC in December last year. The … Continue reading →

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BUSINESS RECORD CHECKS

Are HMRC right to focus on Business Records in isolation? When I predicted in a recent article that I foresaw no push on the part of HMRC towards making traders keep contemporary records of sales and expenses, I had not … Continue reading →

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