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A little early but why not! Bettertax has been trading for 4 years on 1st July and has gone gone from strength to strength. The company started with 2 people (and a helper!). There is now 15 of us, all working together to bring you the Bettertax tax refund experience! Over the time, our branding […]

I just got really excited when I saw an email in my inbox from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) announcing “Auotmated Tax Refund Notification”. Great!! It’s MY turn to get some tax money back! Here’s what the email said: Unclaimed Tax Refund Notification You are Receiving this Notification Because you are yet to claim your […]

Following on from Paul Lewis’ Breakfast TV slot this morning, and a subsequent Facebook comment by Martin Lewis (no, they are not related! The Lewis’ that is!), I thought I’d talk a little about tax relief on uniforms and workwear. As a tradesman’s tax refund company, claiming the tax back on workwear and uniforms is […]

Roll up, roll up! 6th April heralds the start of the new tax year – shame it can’t be described in a more exciting way, like Chinese New Year! The Year of the Tax Back Snake perhaps! Bettertax make the process of claiming your tax back as simple and easy as possible. Being tradesman’s tax […]

Just a quick note to let you all know that HMRC will be introducing new tax codes for the 2013 – 2014 tax year. This will be affective from 6th April 2013. For basic rate tax payers, we will now have code 944L. The complete, complicated list of tax codes for 2013 – 2014 can […]

This is not the usual post for this blog but I just wanted to share a few thoughts about my page admin experience. Other SME Facebook admins may agree with what I am saying. Bettertax has had a facebook page for 3 years now. Back in the day there was certainly more access to engage […]

Our very first blog on the subject of tax code changes, is still as relevant today as it was then. HMRC take it upon themselves to revise your tax code based on the tax return completed from previous years’ information. In our opinion this can lead to so many problems of under or over payments […]

Last year I wrote about this most auspicious of occasions, HMRC tax deadline day for paper tax returns. As always, if you choose to file a paper tax return, you must make sure it is on HMRC’s desk by midnight 31st October, any year. It doesn’t get scarier than that as a time and date! […]

Imitation is not always the best form of flattery! Although we have been aware of the existence of a company using a trading name very silimar (if not identical) to ours, because it didn’t seem to be an active company, we haven’t been concerned. However, over the past few days, a number of clients have […]