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Are your duties as a Seafarer those which qualify for the SED now!

Or are they merely incidental !

You may not be able to rely on that one day’s trip a year into a foreign port for supplies etc to count and therefore qualify, as HMRC seek to show that this is not part of your employment duties on board ship!

The three key qualifying steps are:
1) Valid Claim Period
This will be a period of at least 365 days beginning ...

HMRC reports that several arrests have been made in relation to their taskforce’s work into Dog Breeders over the past four years. Durham kennel owner, Kevin Knox, pleaded guilty to the fraudulent evasion of tax and VAT in March 2018.

However it is not only the smugglers who HMRC are interested and the tax enquiry is far less scary and intrusive with the right adviser

If you have still failed to declare income from dog or cat breeding call me and let’s ...

A couple of years ago HMRC Officers uncovered fraudsters selling puppies on a mass scale and for a huge profit, but because of the underground nature of the activity – many had failed to declare their sales.

HMRC has recovered almost £6 million in lost taxes from hundreds of cases since the formation of their dedicated taskforce.

Of those breeders and traders targeted, they include:

• two unconnected puppy breeders in the west of Scotland who were handed tax bills of £425,000 and £337,000
• a puppy ...

Working from Home

If you’ve been working from home over the past few months, you may well save on travel costs and lunches, but you’ll run up other bills, including heating and electricity. Some employers give their staff an allowance to cover those excess costs but some do not. If not employees can still claim a small reduction in their taxes for the time they were forced to work at home and not out of choice.

Rather than have to calculate exactly ...