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.

Rebecca Cave

Tax Writer Taxwriter Ltd

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

HMRC gets serious with ESS sales till fraud

Tax repayments can be paid to tax agents

LITRG calls for better HMRC guidance

Should the OTS be replaced and with what?

Anonymous VAT penalty notices fox agents

IR35: HMRC loses match with Gary Lineker

Paper SA tax returns now only available on request

What Keir Starmer’s tax summary tells us

What can we learn from Sunak’s tax ‘returns’?

Spring Budget: Six SME planning points

Taxpayers asked to pay same assessment twice

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