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The aim of the ECS handbook is to give you clear and comprehensive guidance on how to undertake your role within ECS. It will help you understand the legislation, how our policies work and how they should be applied. It will…
Check recent contacts from HMRC to help you decide if a suspicious email, phone call, text or letter could be a scam.
Find the Inheritance Tax thresholds (or nil rate bands) from 1914, and see changes to Inheritance Tax interest rates from October 1988.
Inheritance Tax thresholds — from 18 March 1986 to 5 April 2030 From To…
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International tax issues including the principles of double taxation relief and an introduction to double taxation agreements
All aspects of company taxation including appeals, enquiries, payments and penalties
Find a list of codes which can be used in Data Element 5/23 to identify the location where the goods may be examined for internal temporary storage facilities (Appendix 16D).
Find out about Corporation Tax relief you can claim for costs on R&D if you’re a small and medium-sized enterprise with an accounting period that starts before 1 April 2024.
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