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Communication providers are upgrading the technology they use to provide landline and telephone services with a fully digital network. As part of this upgrade, the existing network called the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) will be withdrawn.
If your business pays the cost of an employee's home phone - what you must report to HMRC and what taxes and National Insurance are due
As an employer paying your employees’ home phone expenses, you have…
You don’t have to report anything or deduct and pay PAYE tax or National…
If telephone expenses aren’t exempt, you must report them to HMRC and may…
The value to use depends on who arranges the employee’s telephone line. If…
The following guides contain more detailed information: telephone charges…
This article challenges the claim that women’s and men’s use of telephones is fundamentally different
What the retirement of analogue phone lines, also known as the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), means for you.
Find out how you should prepare for a telephone or video court or tribunal hearing and what to expect on the day.
If your business pays the cost of an employee's mobile phone - what you must report to HMRC and what taxes and National Insurance are due.
Visiting a prisoner: visiting times, keeping in touch by email, telephone or letter, banned items and sending money to a prisoner by debit card or online bank transfer
Information for landline customers about how their provider will migrate their devices and services from the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) to digital technologies.
Guidance for organisations to assess the appropriateness and risks of conducting telephone surveys during the COVID-19 pandemic, as part of research, monitoring and evaluation activity.
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