Tax, payroll and company information

Self Assessment

  • Your tax return: the basics
  • File your tax return online
  • Your tax bill, payments, deadlines, corrections and refunds
  • Appeals, penalties and checks into your tax return
  • Tax returns if you’re self-employed or in a partnership
  • Tax returns for registered pension schemes

VAT

  • Introduction to VAT
  • How and when to register for VAT
  • VAT news, Notices, forms and reference materials
  • Accounting schemes to simplify your VAT
  • VAT rates, thresholds, fuel scales and exchange rates
  • Charging VAT on your sales and other supplies
  • Reclaiming VAT on your purchases
  • Part-exchanges, returned goods, deposits, etc and VAT
  • VAT Returns and accounts
  • Payments and refunds of VAT to or from HMRC
  • Changing or cancelling your VAT registration
  • VAT problems, mistakes, adjustments, visits and questions
  • International trade, international visits and VAT
  • Moving from paper to online VAT Returns and paying electronically
  • How to sign up to use VAT online services
  • How to submit your VAT Return online
  • Penalties for submitting a VAT Return on paper instead of online
  • Building trades and VAT
  • Motor dealers and VAT
  • Charities and other not-for-profit organisations and VAT
  • Consumers and VAT

Business rates

  • Business rates – an overview
  • How business rates valuations are calculated
  • Business rates on pubs and licensed trade
  • Business rates on self-catering and holiday let accommodation
  • Working from home and business rates
  • Business rates relief
  • What to do if you think your rateable value is wrong
  • Estimate your rates bill

National Insurance

  • National Insurance: an introduction
  • National Insurance for employers: the basics
  • Self-employed tax and National Insurance
  • Employed and self-employed tax and National Insurance
  • Identify the National Insurance contributions you must pay

Corporation Tax

  • Introduction to Corporation Tax
  • Corporation Tax for new companies and organisations
  • Trading and non-trading for Corporation Tax explained
  • Deadlines and requirements for Corporation Tax
  • Appointing someone to deal with your Corporation Tax affairs
  • Claiming losses, allowances and reliefs
  • Corporation Tax rates
  • Paying Corporation Tax
  • Completing and filing your Company Tax Return
  • Records for Corporation Tax: what you need to keep
  • Directors’ loan accounts and Corporation Tax explained
  • File returns and manage your Corporation Tax account
  • HMRC compliance checks, appeals, interest and penalties
  • Changing your business details for Corporation Tax
  • Making a loss and Corporation Tax
  • Selling or closing your company and Corporation Tax
  • Charities and Corporation Tax
  • Unincorporated organisations and Corporation Tax

Construction Industry Scheme

  • Acting as a tax agent for a CIS contractor or subcontractor
  • Contractor registration and obligations under CIS
  • Monthly returns and record keeping for contractors
  • Multiple contractor status for larger businesses under CIS
  • Subcontractor registration and obligations
  • What is the Construction Industry Scheme?
  • CIS where construction isn’t your main activity
  • Deciding whether your work comes within CIS
  • Getting paid and paying tax – advice for subcontractors
  • Managing agents and CIS
  • Understanding and using CIS online
  • Verifying and paying subcontractors
  • Are you a contractor or a subcontractor within CIS?
  • Gross paid subcontractors and the annual compliance review
  • Late returns and late return penalties under CIS
  • Public bodies and organisations under CIS
  • Using or dealing with subcontractor trading names
  • Correcting monthly return and payment errors
  • How CIS applies to businesses based outside of the UK
  • Reporting changes to a contractor business
  • Reporting changes to a subcontractor business
  • How to pay CIS deductions to HMRC if you’re a contractor
  • EDI filing for large contractors
  • Company subcontractors and the P35 Employer Annual Return

Capital Gains Tax

  • Capital Gains Tax on business assets: the basics
  • Capital Gains Tax reliefs for business assets
  • How to calculate capital gains and losses on business assets
  • Glossary, forms and helpsheets for Capital Gains Tax
  • Record keeping and Capital Gains Tax

Stamp taxes

  • Stamp Duty Land Tax
  • Stamp Duty Reserve Tax
  • Stamp Duty

Excise duties

  • Alcohol duties
  • Fuel Duty
  • Tobacco Products Duty
  • Receiving, storing and moving excise goods
  • Amusement Machine Licence Duty
  • Gambling duties
  • Excise Notices, forms and reference materials

Industry-specific taxes

  • Air Passenger Duty
  • Aggregates Levy
  • Climate Change Levy
  • Insurance Premium Tax
  • Landfill Tax
  • Industry-specific Notices and forms

Tax reliefs and allowances

PAYE for employers

  • Introduction to PAYE for employers
  • PAYE for employers: the basics
  • Forms and publications for employers
  • Starting the tax year: codes and forms
  • Monthly/weekly payroll and form filling
  • Employer publications email alert service
  • End-of-year tasks: annual return and form filling
  • Non-standard paydays or moving paydays
  • PAYE for special types of pay
  • Rates and thresholds for employers
  • PAYE if your business closes or changes
  • Pension Payments and PAYE
  • Rates and thresholds for employers: 2011-12
  • All PAYE tools for employers
  • PAYE problems, checks, penalties and appeals
  • Employee starting or leaving
  • Employee change of circumstance
  • PAYE online filing for employers
  • Making PAYE/National Insurance payments to HMRC

Maternity, paternity, adoption, sickness

Employee is sick

Employee becoming a parent

Funding statutory payments

  • Get help with statutory payments funding

Expenses and benefits for employers

  • Expenses and benefits A to Z
  • Dispensations
  • Expenses and benefits: the basics
  • Expenses and benefits record keeping
  • PAYE Settlement Agreements (PSAs)
  • Reporting company cars on form P46 (Car)
  • Completing end-of-year forms P9D, P11D and P11D(b)
  • Correcting errors in expenses and benefits reporting

Paying HMRC

  • Faster Payment Service information
  • How to pay PAYE/Class 1 National Insurance contributions
  • How to pay Self Assessment/Capital Gains Tax
  • How to pay self-employed Class 2 National Insurance
  • Stamp Taxes
  • The Certificate of Tax Deposit Scheme
  • Business Payment Support Service
  • How to pay PAYE late payment penalties
  • How to pay VAT
  • How to pay deferred Class 1, 2 and 4 NIC arrears
  • Problems paying HMRC: advice for businesses, individuals and tax agents
  • Settlements, other penalties and miscellaneous taxes
  • How to pay Class 1A National Insurance
  • How to pay Corporation Tax
  • How to pay Insurance Premium Tax
  • Organisations that can help you with debt problems
  • Paying the tax you owe through your tax code or by making a voluntary direct payment
  • Gambling duties
  • How to make PAYE Settlement Agreement payments
  • What could happen if you don’t pay HMRC
  • CIS late filing penalties
  • Environmental taxes
  • Pension schemes
  • Alcohol duties
  • How to pay Petroleum Revenue Tax
  • How to pay Air Passenger Duty
  • How to pay Intrastat penalties
  • How to pay Excise Duty on oils (including road fuel)
  • Reporting changes to HMRC

HMRC complaints and appeals

  • How to complain to HM Revenue & Customs
  • How to appeal against an HMRC decision – direct tax
  • How to appeal against an HMRC decision – indirect tax
  • Appealing a decision where Customs have seized something from you
  • How to take things further if you’re still not satisfied with a tax appeal
  • How to deal with HMRC for someone else
  • >Authorising an accountant to deal with HMRC for you
  • >Search for an available company name or trade mark

Company administration: an introduction

  • Company administration: the basics
  • Shares and shareholders
  • Company directors’ responsibilities
  • Company secretaries’ responsibilities
  • Reporting changes to Companies House
  • Submitting documents to Companies House
  • Companies House deadlines and late filing penalties
  • How to register your newspaper business with Companies House

Filing company information using WebFiling

  • How to use WebFiling to file company information online

Companies House annual returns and accounts

  • Companies House annual return
  • Company accounts: the basics
  • Filing accounts with Companies House: dates and checklist
  • Choose and manage auditors
  • Accounting and audit exemptions for small companies
  • Companies House deadlines and late filing penalties
  • Change your accounting date
  • How to use WebFiling to file company information online
  • >Companies House forms and detailed guidance

Companies House penalties, appeals and complaints

  • Companies House deadlines and late filing penalties
  • How to complain to Companies House
  • Find out what records you should be keeping
  • Set up a basic record-keeping system

Changes to your business

  • Change your business structure
  • Changes within a partnership
  • Reporting changes to HMRC
  • Reporting changes to Companies House

Selling or closing your business

  • Selling or closing your business – an overview
  • Check tax & legal issues when selling a business
  • Closing a business checklist
  • Insolvency: the basics
  • Company and LLP strike-off, dissolution and restoration
  • Dissolved company assets: the basics

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