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Get help classifying computers, inkjet and toner cartridges and their components.
Use a simpler calculation to work out income tax for your vehicle, home and business premises expenses
Simplified expenses are a way of calculating some of your business…
Calculate your vehicle expenses using a flat rate for mileage instead of…
Calculate your allowable expenses using a flat rate based on the hours you…
A small number of businesses use their business premises as their home,…
Small businesses can record income and expenses when money is actually paid rather than when they've invoiced or received
Cash basis accounting is the standard way to record your income and…
You can use cash basis if you’re a sole trader or partnership without…
You must keep records of all business income and expenses. You’ll need to…
From 6 April 2024, cash basis became the default method of accounting. You…
New projects to test how public sector data can be better joined up to improve lives, including through AI, while supercomputing capacity to increase sixfold.
This policy update explains the government's plans for Simpler Recycling in England.
Find out if simplified expenses suits your business. Compare what expenses you can claim using simplified expenses with what you can claim by working out the actual costs.
News updates and supporting documents relating to the government’s ambitious programme of local government reorganisation in England.
This tax information and impact note applies to businesses registered or liable to be registered for VAT that sell mobiles or computer chips in the UK under the VAT domestic reverse charge procedure.
Claim capital allowances so your business pays less tax when you buy assets - equipment, fixtures, business cars, plant and machinery, annual investment allowance, first-year allowances.
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