Rebecca Cave

Member Since: 30th Jun 2000
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Consulting tax editor for Accountingweb.co.uk. I also write newsletters for a number of other publishers including the Tax Advice Network and PTP Training.
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5th May 2023
HMRC gets serious with ESS sales till fraud
What is ESS? ESS software allows traders to hide trading income by not recording certain sales through the sales till and diverting any...
HMRC & policy
21st Apr 2023
Tax repayments can be paid to tax agents
For years taxpayers have been fleeced by tax refund companies after signing a deed of assignment that diverts their tax refunds to the high...
HMRC & policy
18th Apr 2023
LITRG calls for better HMRC guidance
Very few people read the tax legislation – even tax professionals and HMRC staff rely on the guidance written for HMRC or for the tax...
HMRC & policy
4th Apr 2023
Should the OTS be replaced and with what?
The Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) was set up by Conservative Chancellor George Osborne in 2010 as a political reaction to 10 years of...
HMRC & policy
4th Apr 2023
Anonymous VAT penalty notices fox agents
Two new VAT penalty regimes are now in place for VAT periods that start on or after 1 January 2023. Emma Rawson explained how the late...
HMRC & policy
29th Mar 2023
IR35: HMRC loses match with Gary Lineker
Gary Lineker is probably the best-known football presenter in the UK, having hosted Match of the Day since 1999, and commentated on many...
HMRC & policy
28th Mar 2023
Paper SA tax returns now only available on request
In the latest Stakeholder Digest , distributed to certain professional bodies, HMRC announced that the self assessment tax return forms for...
HMRC & policy
27th Mar 2023
What Keir Starmer’s tax summary tells us
The statement says it was prepared by ‘your chartered accountants’ but the leader of the opposition’s advisers are either more modest that...
Personal tax
23rd Mar 2023
What can we learn from Sunak’s tax ‘returns’?
Last November prime minister Rishi Sunak promised to publish his tax returns , and on 22 March 2023 some details from his last three UK tax...
Personal tax
16th Mar 2023
Spring Budget: Six SME planning points
Minimise corporation tax The Chancellor confirmed that the main rate of corporation tax will rise from 19% to 25% on 1 April 2023, but the...
Business tax