News

There is a wealth of useful information in the library of newsletters, and briefings below. There are also copies of our Budget Information & Tax Summary Booklets below if you need to check specific data. They go right back to 2004.

For current tax data you can also use the link to Tax Tables.

HWS sends out a newsletter several times a year which keeps clients up to date on many of the issues that affect both business and personal taxation, as well as broader business matters. If you would like to receive our newsletters or booklets please email your details to: enq@hwsmk.co.uk

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PREVIOUS YEAR'S BUDGET BOOKLETS >>>

Annual Investment Allowance
Revisions
PAYE Late Pyment Penalties
Shares & Capital Losses
Enterprise Finance Guarantee
Mobile Phone Contracts
Furnished Holiday Lettings
'Salary Sacrifice'
Tips & National Minimum Wage

Ready Steady VAT
Tax Planning - 50% Rate
Self Employment in Construction
Vehicle Scrappage
First Year Allowances
What Do You Know About Liechtenstein?
Agricultural Property Relief
Staff Parties - Tax Position
Dividends or Loans

Tax-free Benefits
Arctic Systems - Notes
HMRC Investigations
Reduce Your Business Rates
National Minimum Wage
Intestacy Rules
Dividend Payments
Basic State Pension - Changes
Holiday Entitlement

Year End Tax Planning
Ten Tips for Coping with the Downturn
Income Shifting
Annual Investment Allowances
P9D & P11Ds
Raising Finance
Money Back From the Taxman
VAT on Unpaid Debts

New Car Tax Proposals
Northern Rock Shareholders
Retaining Customers
Dispensations - Warning
Companies Act 2006 Update
Need For A Company Secretary
Extracting Profits - Wisely
10% Tax Band Survives...
Building Expenditure
Key tax issues for 2008/09
Will your business disposal qualify?
Flexing the family
Green with envy - will it be the blues?
Tax implications of an overdrawn director’s account
When the cheque isn’t in the post: preventing late payment
How to Avoid Common
VAT Errors
An interest in tax?
Paternity Leave
The proposal to allow spouses and civil partners to transfer their inheritance tax (IHT) nil rate bands
Casualties in ER
Car - fully does it
Illegal working changes
NMW changes
Non residence - the new maths
Income shifting - deferral of new rules
Companies Act 2006 update
Income shifting - how it might affect you - the Arctic Systems case
2008/09 allowances announced
The rising cost of fuel for company cars
New anti-money laundering legislation
Sponsorship or just paying for a hobby?
2-4-6 cheque clearance
Companies Act 2006 update
Are you a winner or a loser in the new CGT regime?
The big surprise in the Pre-Budget Report was the new 18% rate of capital gains tax (CGT) which will apply to gains made by individuals and trustees from 6 April 2008.

Planning for the new capital allowance regime
No more AGMs
CIS - are penalties on the way?
Flexible working - the benefits
Do you need to change your will

Clampdown on buy to let property owners - also see Client Briefing
Arctic Systems: where next for husband and wife businesses?
Capital allowances on company cars
Did you disclose?
Companies Act 2006 - an update
Taking on workers new to the UK
New EU cash declaration rules
Tax implications of an overdrawn director’s account
More pay and leave for parents
Lasting Power of Attorney
The previous ten Budgets of Gordon Brown
How to pay the National Minimum Wage
Implementation of Companies Act 2006
Should you buy more shares or make a loan?
Using your home for business
Is the cost of training tax deductible?
Are you entitled to a full state retirement pension?

Tax planning supplement
The Construction Industry Scheme
Repaid or not repaid? - that is the question
I’ll sacrifice!
The Companies Act 2006
Are you resident in the UK or not?
Traps with flat rate VAT
Arctic Systems - where are we now?
Managed Service Companies
Additional corporate disclosures

Losing your identity!
Flattening out VAT
Driving at work: the risks
Minimum wage compliance
Mixed blessings of taper relief
Personal computer use
Powers of intervention
Handy hints for Sage
Brainteaser
Cut your tax bills - go green
VAT claims and business mileage
Pensions White Paper
The Work and Families Act 2006
Age and employment
Construction industry countdown
Handy hints for Excel
Puzzle and who wrote that?

What’s on your financial horizon?
UK200Group news update
Forgotten PINs! Retailers beware
Inheritance tax - planning ahead
VAT news for hotel conferencing
Allowing time off work
Budget news
Child Trust Fund news
Checking your employment status
National Minimum Wage - new rates announced

YEAR END TAX PLANNING - SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT
All Change
Spring is in the airUK200 News Update
Summary financial statements
Pre-Budget changes take effect
News on overseas savings
Some good news (on taper relief)
R & D: What does it really mean
Permanent health insurance
Postal charges set to change

Employee Mileage -the end of the road for VAT reclaims?
Failure to claim rate relief
UK 200 News Update
Proposed dividends - the new rules
What’s in a name?
Charity news
Energy efficient cars
Tax credit payments by employers
AIMing high
Data protection
Does your business have illegal software
Introducing the new Pension Regulator
Arctic Systems - the chill wind continues
Changes in the service sector
Domain names <uk
Calling all farmers
Location, location, relocation
The cost of forgetfulness
Approving of nanny
Reduction in red tape
UK200Group summer news
Tax avoidance: where are we now?
Service charge optional
Company hijack - are you at risk?
Stamp duty land tax
eBay
The construction industry
Being civil
Protecting the family home
Business rates rises imminent
Insolvency statistics bring mixed news
Employers’ liability insurance
Home is where the workplace is
Don’t get caught out!
High value dealers
Mail and stamps
Letters from the tax man
UK200Group winter news
Employment law changes
Late payments
New European health insurance card
School fees
Cars and vans: the next chapter
Legal rights for same-sex couples
New customers for Complex Personal Returns teams
New Customs and Excise website
The missing millions!
Maternity pay
Business confidence growing
Staying green
Childcare costs
New government website
Company news
Ban on spam
The law changes on cold calling
Opposing trade marks
VAT round up
The family home: inheritance tax
 Business rates
Good news for employers
National minimum wage
How much corporation tax?
Employer’s liability insurance
Business tenancies
Independent taxation: the rules change
Plant and machinery: what allowances?

Previous Year Budget Information

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