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Mortgage providers and lenders who accept a SA302 tax calculation and a tax year overview
Added The Cambridge Building Society to the list.
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Sign up for Making Tax Digital for VAT
Businesses that currently pay VAT by Direct Debit cannot sign up in the 7 working days leading up to, or the 5 working days after their VAT Return is due.
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Individual Savings Account (ISA): list of authorised managers
The list of authorised Individual Savings Account managers has been updated with 3 additions, 2 amendments and 1 deletion.
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Find software that's compatible with Making Tax Digital for VAT
The list of compatible software providers has been updated with 11 items added, 6 removed and 1 amended.
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Secure Data Exchange Service: service availability and issues
The date and time of the planned downtime has been changed to Thursday 21 March 9am to 5pm.
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Statutory market values for oil
The daily values for all Category 1 crude oils for February, 2019 have been updated and published on the GOV.UK website.
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Customs Handling of Import Export Freight: service availability and issues
This service will be unavailable on Sunday 24 March 2019 from 5pm to 7pm. Information about this issue has been added.
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New Computerised Transit System email: service availability and issues
Due to essential upgrades you'll be unable to access our online service from 11pm to midnight on Friday 29 March. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
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New Computerised Transit System Web: service availability and issues
Downtime has been added to the page for Wednesday 27 and Friday 29 March 2019.
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New Computerised Transit System XML: service availability and issues
Planned downtime has been added for Tuesday 27 March 6am to 8am and Friday 29 March, 11pm to midnight.
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Examples of HMRC related phishing emails and bogus contact
A new example of a HMRC related phishing email scam has been added.
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Making Tax Digital for Business - stakeholder communications pack
This pack has been updated with information from the 2019 spring statement.
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Professional organisations: approval for tax relief application
Reformatted version of P356 - Application for subscriptions to be allowed as a tax deduction added.
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Contact lists of providers who support Customs Freight Simplified Procedures
Details for Grosvenor International Systems Ltd has been updated to BluJay Solutions Ltd for both Customs Freight Simplified Procedures: Traders - third party service providers and Traders - software providers.
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Help and support for tax agents and advisers
The latest webinars on help and support for agents have been added.
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Check the status of tax policy consultations
The consultation tracker has been updated.
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Electronic Data Capture Service: service availability and issues
You will be unable to use this service on Saturday 16 March 2019 from 9am to 11pm. Information about this issue has been added.
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HMRC services for tax agents
Services that you use an agent services account page with have been added to this page.
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List of approved offshore reporting funds
The list has been updated to include the funds that have entered the Reporting Fund Regime to 8 March 2019.
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Pension schemes: service availability and issues
This service will be unavailable on Thursday 28 March 2019 from 9:45am to 11am. Information about this issue has been added.
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Updates on VAT appeals
The list of VAT appeals that HMRC has lost and that may have implications for other businesses has been updated.
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Register or renew your money laundering supervision with HMRC
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Employer Bulletin: February 2019
Information about the New Starter Checklist for 2019 to 2020 has been added.
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Find software that's compatible with Making Tax Digital for Income Tax
The compatible software list has been updated, 9 added and 3 changes.
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VAT Notice 700/22: Making Tax Digital for VAT
This notice has been updated with guidance on who is exempt from following the rules for Making Tax Digital for VAT.
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Customs Freight Simplified Procedures: service availability and issues
You will be unable to use this service on Saturday 16 March from 9am to 11pm.
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Estate agents targeted in money laundering crackdown
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National Export System email: service availability and issues
You will be unable to use this service on Saturday 16 March 2019 from 9am to 11pm. Information about this issue has been added.
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Alcohol and Tobacco Warehousing Declarations: service availability and issues
You will be unable to use this service on Saturday 16 March from 9am to 11pm. Information about this issue has been added.
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Genuine HMRC contact and recognising phishing emails and texts
Section 1.1 and 1.2 have been updated with information on Making Tax Digital for Business VAT pilot – emails and Research to find out the role of agents in supporting small and mid-sized businesses.
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Apply for an agent services account if you're not based in the UK
If HMRC approve your application for an agent services account, you’ll need to finish setting it up before you can use it to act on behalf of your clients.
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Monthly euro conversion rates for calculating Customs Duty
The monthly euro conversion rate for March 2019 has been updated.
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Stamp Duty Land Tax: HM Revenue and Customs compliance checks
The SDLT payments and returns time limit has been changed from 30 days to 14 days of the 'effective' transaction date.
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Approved agencies for Payroll Giving
The approved agencies list for Payroll Giving has been updated.
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VAT Notice 701/49: finance
The section 'What supplies are not considered exempt credit' has been updated with information on Personal Contract Purchase.
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Excise Movement and Control System: service availability and issues
All electronic UK EMCS messages, including movements created or amended between 11:26am on 30 November 2018 and 12:25pm on 3 December 2018 have not been received by EU member states. More information about this issue and what you should do in the meantime has been added.
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Rates and thresholds for employers: 2018 to 2019
The company car advisory fuel rates (AFRs) have been updated to show the rates that apply from 1 March 2019.
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Advisory Fuel Rates
The new rates from 1 March 2019 have been added to the page.
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Agent Update: issue 70
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Tell HMRC your organisation failed to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion
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Find out who has been granted a utility direction
Dunlop Aerospace Limited has been removed from the list.
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Gambling Tax: service availability and issues
The 'Access denied error message' service issue has been removed.
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Pay As You Earn (PAYE): service availability and issues
This service is now available.
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Check when a business must follow the rules for Making Tax Digital for VAT
If your business makes payments on account, you're in the deferral group and need to start following the rules for Making Tax Digital for VAT on 1 October 2019.
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Help and support for Making Tax Digital
A webinar has been added to help your business get ready for April 2019.
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Link clients to your agent services account
As of 14 February, clients will have 14 days to click the link in the authorisation email.
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Update your client's details for Making Tax Digital for VAT
You cannot use this service to update you client's bank account details for VAT repayments.
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Create an agent services account
If your agent business is based outside the UK, information about how to get approved by HMRC before you can create an agent services account has been added.
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Finish setting up your agent services account if you are overseas
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Agent services account if you are not based in the UK: service availability and issues