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Since January, HMRC have been issuing the new PAYE tax codes for the new tax year 2014 – 2015. This tax year will start from 6th April 2014. PAYE tax and Class 1 NICs Tax thresholds, rates and codes PAYE tax rates, thresholds and codes Figures to use 2014-15 PAYE tax threshold £192 per week […]

Although I am in danger of repeating myself, we are approaching 31st January, HMRC tax deadline day. We have explained in previous posts that HMRC will and do issue fines for late filing of tax returns. These mount up and have additional penalties added over time. If you are reading this and still have not […]

For some time now, HMRC has been very aware of tax agents whose business it is to get legitimate work expenses refunded to tax payers as a tax rebate. Quite clearly The Exchequer and HMRC are in the business of collecting tax and really don’t like having to refund any. The construction industry has been […]

Not the best way to end the year but with every cloud comes a silver lining, so they say. We had to very hurriedly re-build our website, due to a situation I won’t go into yet, a few days before the Christmas break. I’d like to thank Marketing My Journey for their huge effort and […]

November not even over, December and Christmas still weeks away, not even thinking about New Year celebrations yet! Before you know it, the tree is a pile of needles and you never want to see a turkey again! We all know too well how quickly those weeks pass though. I just thought a brief reminder […]

Although Bettertax was set up as the Tradesman’s Tax Refunds Specialists, and we certainly have become that judging by our great Freeindex reviews, we also do many self-assessment tax returns for carers, healthcare workers and midwives. Most of our careworker clients work for agencies like Interserve Care at Home. It became apparent that many of […]

We try to remind everyone each year about the approaching paper tax return deadline day – in case you are still doing yours in this way, for whatever reason… Come on, get with the times and get a few extra months to do it! If you work in a way that is likely to get […]

With tax being a seemingly complicated process its often hard to know whether you should be completing a self assessment tax return. Let’s try and simplify things a little. Self assessment is when you complete a tax return each year setting out your earnings and other incomes, against all your legitimate work expenditures. If you […]

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