It’s not often that HMRC makes exceptions to its tax deadlines or late-filing penalties, but the past year has, as in so many ways, been different.

Between optional deadline deferrals, new payment schemes and temporary reliefs, keeping on top of the changes to the usual tax timetable hasn’t been easy.

My client has had a computation from HMRC for the CIS (Construction Industry Scheme) deductions they failed to deduct from payments made to a subcontractor for the current and last 6 tax years.

What about the tax paid by the subcontractor on this income via Self Assessment/Corporation Tax? Can this be taken into account?

With the ever-changing circumstances of 2020/21 it is hard to imagine that we are already close to the tax year end again.

Feels like we did nothing and went nowhere in the last 12 months!

I am selling a Furnished Holiday Letting and understand I can rollover the gain into another qualifying letting property. However, I am not anticipating buying a new property for a year or so. In the meantime do I still have to make a return under the 30 day reporting scheme and pay the capital gains tax?

I have a number of clients based in Northern Ireland (NI) who both supply goods to and buy from mainland UK and the Republic of Ireland (ROI) mainly on a wholesale basis. Please could you clarify the rules post-Brexit.

My client has been in dispute regarding a road traffic accident between one of his company’s lorries, and another VAT registered business’ lorry. A small claims court has judged in favour of the third-party business, and has awarded them payment for damages, including reimbursement of their legal costs. The third-party is a partially exempt business, and so they would like reimbursement for the net amount of their costs, plus the VAT – will the third party raise a VAT invoice to us for payment of those costs and can my client claim back any of the VAT?

If you are considering moving home in the second half of 2020/21, you are by no means alone.
In the month leading up to 8 August 2020, 149,000 properties were put on the market – the highest number since before the financial crash in 2008.

With everything that’s happened so far this year, it might be easy to forget your obligations to file a tax return for 2019/20 by midnight on 31 January 2021.
The coronavirus pandemic and subsequent economic crisis has caused chaos with businesses up and down the country, most of which closed entirely during April 2020.

Several years ago I separated from my wife but the divorce has now gone through. I still own half of the marital home but I have been living in rented accommodation since the separation. Can I claim that my old marital home is still my main residence for capital gains tax purposes when it is sold?

I intend to remarry and my girlfriend wants to give me a share of her current home after we are married. Apparently this was let for a time before my girlfriend made it her home. Would there be any capital gains tax advantage in doing this?

Even among those who follow good tax-planning practice and maintain forecasts running several years forward, it is unlikely that many foresaw the dramatic end to the 2019/20 tax year.

With the arrival of COVID-19 and the subsequent lockdown, the economy shrank a record 20.4% in April 2020, and 19.1% in the three months to May 2020.