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HMRC can now raid your bank account

Recently, HMRC announced that it plans to chase lower value tax debt more aggressively by direct recovery of debt powers

David Jones

23 Jul 2026

Comments on Global News, Opinion, PAYE & RTI, Personal Finance, Personal Tax Planning, Self Assessment, Tax News, Uncategorized

Are student loans a stealth tax?

Many readers of this Blog will either have a student loan themselves or have an employee who has one, but

David Jones

16 Jul 2026

Accounts, Business Regulation, Business Tax, Corporate Tax Planning, Making Tax Digital, Opinion, PAYE & RTI, Personal Finance, Personal Tax Planning, Self Assessment, Tax News, VAT

HMRC plan to collect all tax by direct debit

Today’s Blog is about mounting HMRC concerns over late payment of VAT and PAYE. They are now looking at ways

David Jones

10 Jul 2026

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VAT – A quirky little tax!

I will start today’s Blog with a brief history of  Value Added Tax in the UK. VAT was introduced in

David Jones

17 Oct 2025

Comments on Global News, Opinion, PAYE & RTI, Pension, Personal Finance, Personal Tax Planning, Tax News, Tax Planning, Uncategorized

Pension Annuities

Is now the right time to buy one? The massed ranks of the UK’s ‘the soon to be retired’, all

David Jones

9 Oct 2025

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Which taxpayers are exempt from MTD for income tax

With all of the hullaballoo around the upcoming Budget in November, the express train of Making Tax Digital, set to

David Jones

2 Oct 2025

Accounts, Opinion, PAYE & RTI, Pension, Personal Finance, Self Assessment, Tax News, Uncategorized

Tax on savings

If you earn less than a total of £18,570 a year from all sources of income, the main ones being

David Jones

25 Sep 2025

Uncategorized, Accounts, Business Regulation, Business Tax, Corporate Tax Planning, Opinion, PAYE & RTI, Pension, Personal Finance, Personal Tax Planning, Self Assessment, Tax Investigations, Tax News, VAT

UK Tax Questions Answered by Shrewsbury Accountant No. 48

Regular readers of this Blog will be aware that in recent weeks I’ve been both analysing the government’s tax raising

David Jones

18 Sep 2025

Accounts, Opinion, PAYE & RTI, Personal Finance, Personal Tax Planning, Tax News, Uncategorized

Could Angela Rayner have avoided her tax avoidance debacle?

As a result of Angela Rayner’s recent resignation and fall from grace because of her significant underpayment of around £40,000

David Jones

11 Sep 2025

Accounts, Business Regulation, Business Tax, Comments on Global News, Corporate Tax Planning, Opinion, PAYE & RTI, Personal Finance, Personal Tax Planning, Tax News, Uncategorized, VAT

Could ‘sin taxes’ be raised at the next budget?

In a recent Blog (Isn’t it about time to ditch some taxes?) I speculated that some of the so-called sin

David Jones

4 Sep 2025

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Inheritance Tax (IHT) & Probate

Today’s Blog is on a subject matter that many of you will not have at the front of your minds,

David Jones

28 Aug 2025

Accounts, Business Regulation, Business Tax, Corporate Tax Planning, Opinion, PAYE & RTI, Pension, Personal Finance, Personal Tax Planning, Self Assessment, Tax News, Uncategorized, VAT

Isn’t it about time to ditch some taxes?

In one of Rachel Reeves’s early speeches, following her appointment as Chancellor, she complained of the proliferation of different taxes,

David Jones

21 Aug 2025

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