Consultation on Pensions Cold Calling Ban
HMRC has launched a consultation on draft proposals to ban pensions cold calling. Under the proposals, unsolicited marketing calls relating to pensions could be banned, alongside cold calls that offer…
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Use Tax-Free Childcare Over the Summer Holidays
The Government is reminding ‘stressed out parents’ that help may be available for childcare costs during the summer holidays. According to a YouGov poll, 31% of parents feel stressed trying…
Simpson Wood runs Clarion 10K Corporate Challenge
A team from Simpson Wood, namely, Nichola McNally, Deborah Stott, George Smith and Hayden Rose (plus one of our clients, Robert Gudgeon) completed the Clarion 10k Corporate Challenge in Leeds…
Tribunal Rules BBC Journalist is Caught by IR35 Legislation
A First Tier Tribunal has ruled that Christa Ackroyd who presented BBC news programme Look North and was paid via a personal service company was caught by the IR35 rules…
Advisory Fuel Rates For Company Cars
New company car advisory fuel rates have been published which take effect from 1 March 2018. The guidance states:’You can use the previous rates for up to one month…
Pensions Auto Enrolment Reaches a Million People
The Pensions Regulator has announced that the number of employers meeting their workplace pension duties has reached one million and that statistics show that approximately 9.3 million people are saving…
Minimum Wage Increases
The National Minimum Wage (NMW) and National Living Wage (NLW) are the legal minimum wage rates that must be paid to employees. Employers are liable to be penalised for not…
GDPR Explained
It has become increasingly apparent through conversations with clients and businesses in many different fields that there is both a misunderstanding of GDPR and its compliance, as well as a…
Year End-Tax Planning
With less than one month to the end of the tax year there is still time to save tax for 2015/16. We have set out some points you may want to…
Scottish Draft Budget
Finance Secretary Derek Mackay delivered the 2018/19 Scottish Draft Budget on Thursday 14 December 2017 setting out the Scottish government’s financial and tax plans. The Scottish government has the…
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