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13 January 2025 - This roundup sets out the most important changes to HMRC manuals over the past week as curated by our editors

6 January 2025 - This roundup sets out the most important changes to HMRC manuals over the past week as curated by our editors

HM Courts & Tribunals Service has revised the guideline hourly rates effective from 1 January 2025.

HMRC has published guidance on digital platform reporting. These reporting rules started in the UK from 1 January 2024, with the first reports being due by 31 January 2025.

HMRC has published details of the R&D disclosure service for companies to use to voluntarily disclose overclaimed R&D tax relief.

These Regulations are made to widen the circumstances for protecting individuals' residential addresses on the company register, including former registered office addresses, while ensuring company transparency, and aligning provisions for limited liability partnerships.

HMRC has published guidance on how businesses can claim a refund for overpaid PAYE for the current or a previous tax year.

HMRC has published its latest Stakeholder Digest (19 December 2024), providing updates and reminders relevant to UK tax practitioners.

The Public Bill Committee is expected to begin scrutiny of the Finance Bill on 28 January 2025. Comments on the Bill are invited before then, and revised explanatory notes have been issued to cover the Government’s proposed Pillar 2 amendments.

HMRC has published Issue 126 of the Agent Update.

The UK Government has put forward two sets of amendments to Finance Bill 2025.

HMRC has provided an update to the CIOT on their position following the First-tier Tribunal decisions on Collins Construction Ltd and Stage One Creative Services.

HMRC has updated the guidance ‘Additional information you must submit before you claim for Research and Development tax relief’. In particular, the 'Project details to include' and 'Accounting period start and end date' sections have been updated.

The OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on BEPS has released the latest peer review assessments for 136 jurisdictions in relation to the spontaneous exchange of information on tax rulings.

SI 2024/1349: Amendments are made to sections 150(1), 155(1B)(b), and 161(b) of the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 (the Act). This Order comes into force on 6 April 2025.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves has confirmed the Spring forecast will take place on Wednesday 26 March 2025.

16 December 2024 - This roundup sets out the most important changes to HMRC manuals over the past week as curated by our editors

The CIOT has published Finance Bill 2024-25 briefings on capital gains tax and oil and gas taxation

These Regulations are made to amend the Land Transaction Tax (Tax Bands and Tax Rates) (Wales) Regulations 2018, SI 2018/128 to insert revised percentage tax rates for the tax bands applicable to higher rates residential property transactions. They come into force on 11 December 2024.

The CIOT and ICAEW have published a report addressing HMRC’s customer service challenges, setting out ten recommendations for improvements.