Guest
Newsletter from Blacktower Financial Advisers
Limited
This Newsletter covers
a range of articles we have written which
addresses topical issues of pension provision,
investment services, tax planning, property
finance and life assurance.
Many legislative changes
are confined to April and October each
year. 1 October 2006 sees the introduction
of a number of changes not least of which
are the increases to the national minimum
wage (NMW) rates.
HMRC
Won't Give Opinion on Trading Status of Companies
For a number of years taxpayers
or their agents have been able to approach
HMRC for their views as to whether a
company was a trading company for business
taper relief purposes.
The postal charging changes
came into effect from 21 August 2006.
You should have received details of the
new sizing guide direct from the post
office.
The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations
2006 take effect from 1 October 2006.
ACAS has published a free guide for business
owners to help them deal with the regulations.
The Employment Equality
(Age) Regulations 2006 become law from
1 October 2006 and this has far reaching
implications some of which we have reported
on previously.
As part of the Work and
Families Act there will be some significant
changes to maternity pay entitlement
for women whose babies are due from 1
April 2007 onwards.
HMRC have published guidance
for businesses which buy and sell mobile
phones, computer chips and certain other
goods which will change the way in which
VAT is dealt with on these items by making
the purchaser responsible for paying
the VAT using a system known as ‘reverse
charge’.
The Federation of Small
Businesses (FSB) has joined forces with
the Foreign Policy Centre (FPC) to campaign
against regulations that they believe
limit small business growth.
