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HMRC Closes Self Assessment Helpline

Unfortunately, just when it appeared that HMRC’s services had reached absolute rock bottom, Jim O’Hara, the chief executive, has found new ways to slash the quality of the service.   From June onwards taxpayers will no longer be able to speak to HMRC about any of their self assessment affairs for a period of three…

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March 2023 Budget

There have been some substantial changes in yesterday’s budget that you should be aware of.  You can obviously find these summarized elsewhere on the internet, but we thought it would be helpful to highlight those changes we think are most significant to our clientbase.  If you are a client with a SSAS, R&D work or…

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Roundtable with Small Business Commissioner

Proactive recently attended a meeting with the UK’s small business commissioner; which should be available on the ACCA and UK Business Commissioner websites soon.   Overall a helpful meeting, although we were unsurprised to learn that HMRC and most of the government sector were extremely unaware of most of the challenges and realities of operating…

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