UK Autumn Budget 2021 – News for HR

On 27 October 2021 the Chancellor of the Exchequer delivered the Autumn 2021 Budget. In terms of changes likely to impact on the taxation of employment income, the budget was very light. Increase to dividend taxation rate The most significant changes to employment taxation from April 2022 – the increase of 1.25% in the rates […]

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UK Autumn Budget 2021 – News for employment, incentives and benefits

On 27 October 2021 the Chancellor of the Exchequer delivered the Autumn 2021 Budget. In terms of changes likely to impact on the taxation of employment income, the budget was very light. The main message for your clients is that the budget has changed very little in the field of employment taxation. There are, though, […]

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HMRC enquiry nets £29.5M of tax and £4m in penalties from the Home Office

Off-payroll working rules – A salutary warning for the private sector In its recently published annual report, the Home Office (HO) declared that HMRC had concluded there were a number of instances where it had not complied with the off-payroll working rules (IR35) that came into force in the public sector from 6 April 2017. […]

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HMRC 2021 UK Tax Deadline Changes amid COVID-19

Year-end is a busy time for companies, especially when they are continuing to be impacted by the COVID-19 crisis, either directly or indirectly. HMRC recently updated some 2021 filing and payment deadlines to ease the burden on businesses. Here we have outlined the changes to the 2021 tax deadlines that have been announced and we […]

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Abbiss Cadres Bolsters Data Protection Service With New Partner Hire

We are pleased to announce the addition of a new partner, Megan Shields, former Associate General Counsel of U.S. headquartered Webroot Inc, the global, anti-malware tech firm. Megan will spearhead the expansion of Abbiss Cadres’s data protection and privacy offering to provide clients with a one-stop shop for EU and UK GDPR compliance and wider […]

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Brexit: Landmark High Court Ruling that Parliamentary Approval is Required to Trigger Article 50

In a historic move and a testament to the influence of crowd funding, a group known as “The People’s Challenge to Article 50” have successfully secured a declaration from the High Court that the Government needs approval from the UK Parliament before it can notify its intention to leave the EU under Article 50 of the EU Treaty of Lisbon. […]

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EU-US Privacy Shield rejected

In March 2016, the EU Commission issued a draft decision stating that the Privacy Shield agreement negotiated between US officials and the EU Commission in January 2016, as a replacement for the former Safe Harbor agreement, offered adequate protection for EU citizens’ personal data transferred to and processed in the US. […]

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