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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 […]

Although it seems a long way off the new tax year starting 6th April will soon be upon us. It closes down the chance to claim tax back on the yax year 2011 – 2012 so if you have not claimed for that year (or the following years) do it NOW before 5th April. As […]

We’re coming up to the time of year when your PAYE tax code will change to reflect the new personal allowance. There’s been some confusion surrounding the code to be used for 2016 – 2017 because the chancellor was initially only raising the personal allowance threshold by £20 to £10800. As this met with a […]

So much Halloween talk so early in October… but it’s never really too early to warn you of the impending paper tax return deadline day – scary stuff, huh! Paper tax returns are becoming less and less these days but even so, some people do still need to complete one and you have until 31st […]

Woohoo! Lucky me… recently did my tax return – everything confirmed as expected, when what to my wondering eyes should appear in my email box but this:   Tax Refund Notification! A tax refund of 418.33 GBP – Still Pending. 634c0942a5593a81 Due to invalid account record, we were unable to credit your account. Please submit […]