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HMRC’s latest Digest provides short updates on basis period reform, registering for VAT and recently announced service changes.

The CIOT has responded to HMRC’s consultation: ‘Taxation of Employee Ownership Trusts and Employee Benefit Trusts’.

HMRC has updated its guidance to explain what deposit holders need to do before the Certificate of Tax Deposit (CTD) Scheme closes on 23 November 2023.

These Regulations provide for relief from inheritance tax in relation to the Post Office Horizon Shortfall Scheme and Group Litigation Order compensation payments.

HMRC has published new guidance on its internal procedures for deciding how tax disputes should be resolved, depending on the particular circumstances of a dispute and how much tax is at stake.

The government is to legislate to preserve the current 0% stamp duty/SDRT (stamp tax) charge on the issue (and on exempt capital-raising transfers) of UK shares and securities to a depositary or a clearance service operator or their nominees.

The ATT has submitted comments on the draft Finance Bill 2024 legislation which will enable HMRC to specify additional information to be reported in tax returns and via PAYE.

HM Treasury has announced that Autumn Statement 2023 will take place on Wednesday 22 November 2023

Russia has suspended substantially all material provisions of many of its Double Taxation Agreements

HMRC has published Agent Update issue 111 (17 August 2023) providing a round-up of recent developments and changes to legislation and allowances relating to UK tax for tax agents and advisers.

The ICAEW has advised that HMRC is extending its trial for responding to old post.

HMRC is increasing the late-payment interest rate to 7.75% and the repayment rate to 4.25% from 22 August 2023. Interest on quarterly instalment payments of corporation tax is also increased from 14 August 2023.

The Treasury Committee calls for a systematic review into the cost of over a thousand tax reliefs which complicate the tax system and are open to abuse.

31 July 2023 - This roundup sets out the most important changes to HMRC manuals over the past week as curated by our editors

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In the Treasury minutes published on 17 July 2023, the government has responded, among other things, to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report from session 2022-23 on managing tax compliance following the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Finance (No 2) Act 2023