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On the 6th of April each year the tax codes change to reflect the new personal allowances, or how much you can earn before paying tax or tax at different rates. The basic rate tax code for 2018 – 2019 is 1185L.

We used to be very surprised by how many people didn’t know they were entitled to tax back but HMRC do like to keep it difficult and try to make tax payers think they wouldn’t be eligible.

Did you do your tax return during 2017, which would have been for the tax year April 2016 – April 2017? If you did, well done! Did we help you and make life easy and stress-free? Of course we did!

Living in this digital age all of us are seeing more and more automated services and less personal contact. Don’t you find it frustrating trying to get to an actual person if you need to call your bank, for example.

Some good news to eventually come out of the awful first Philip Hammond Spring Budget for 2017. After a week it was clear to see that the proposed price rise for self-employed workers in their National Insurance Contributions (NICs) was a mistake.

The 5th April marks the end of the tax year (2015 – 2016 tax returns). This means that if you have not made a tax claim perhaps ever, you will miss the chance to claim for 2012 – 2013 as HMRC will only accept claims going back 4 years. With average yearly tax refunds of […]

On the 6th of April each year the tax codes change to reflect the new personal allowances, or how much you can earn before paying tax or tax at different rates. The basic rate tax code for 2017 – 2018 is 1150L. During the next few weeks HMRC will issue letters with your new PAYE […]

Just thought I’d tell you a little story about a client of ours. He’s been a client for some years actually but a mate said those very words to him: “I’ll do your tax return… just buy me a pint sometime”. (And we don’t begrudge this happening – it just always concerns us). Now, as […]