Category: Articles
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Broking Business Winter 2020/2021: Brokers need a crystal ball
It’s been impossible to avoid media coverage on potential increases to capital gains tax. The rumours follow the big change that cut availability of…
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Broking Business Winter 2020/2021: Resilience versus wind-down in 2021
2020 was a year of survival for many firms, buoyed up by several factors. The rate increases across the markets, combined with their ability to reduce expenses…
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Broking Business Winter 2020/2021: Tax issues: stay on top
What should brokers and MGAs be looking out for from the tax world? Here’s our digest.
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Broking Business Winter 2020/2021: Dear CEO: reading between the lines
The FCA had concerns about the handling of client money. So last September it issued a “Dear CEO” letter to insurance intermediaries that addressed the subject
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New year, new FS Code
As we start the new year, Heads of Internal Audit may be wondering what lies ahead in 2021 for their internal audit functions.
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Brexit Tax Talk: VAT and the supply of goods – FAQs
The end of the transition period has substantial implications for the movement of goods between the UK and EU Member States…
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Brexit Tax Talk: Brexit and globally mobile employees
The treaty Articles relating to dependent workers, determining an individual’s place of tax residence under treaty rules and claiming foreign tax credits will remain as they are.
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Brexit Tax Talk: Corporate Tax
Our experts have summarised the latest guidance, supplemented by their experience in recent weeks, in this month’s Tax Talk.
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Brexit Tax Talk: Brexit, VAT and the supply of goods
The end of the transition period has substantial implications for the movement of goods between the UK and EU Member States. We summarise here our responses to some common questions and concerns raised by businesses.
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A new approach to dealing with late payments and ‘bad’ debts
Our experience is that, in most cases, a debtor will be left to age, maybe with some chasing by the credit control team, until the year end. At this point, the SME’s accountant will…
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Changes to DAC6 and OECD Mandatory Tax Reporting
The International Tax Enforcement (Disclosable Arrangements) Regulations 2020, which came into effect on 1 July 2020, implemented the EU’s DAC6 disclosure requirements. Since then, many groups have gone back to 25 June 2018 to identify their reportable cross border arrangements under the five Hallmarks. However, as part of the changes brought about by Brexit, significant…
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Top Tax New Year’s resolutions
As the year draws to a close, we start to think back about the ups and downs and the year ahead and what could be. This year has been unlike any other in our living memory, and has encouraged some to dig deeper and make more changes in their lives than ever before. Many people…