The changes may result in significant tax balances through the transitional period, so it pays to plan ahead and be prepared for the change. To ‘fail to plan’ is to ‘plan to fail’!
Companies could soon see changes to the way they file their accounts as part of incoming legislation to help tackle money laundering and other illicit activity.
A new scheme to help businesses with their energy bills is set to be introduced.
On 9 January 2023, the Government confirmed the Energy Bills Discount Scheme (EBDS) will come into force from 1 April 2023 and will run through to 31 March 2024.
Companies House has recently been writing to clients where they suspect that the PSC (Person with Significant Control) register is incorrect or has not been updated following changes in shareholders or ownership, as identified on the Companies confirmation statements.
The Government announced a major reform to the way in which a business owner’s trading profits are allocated against the relevant tax year for income tax purposes – otherwise known as their ‘basis period.’
Having recently written an article of the now infamous “mini budget” in which I talked about it being very much a budget favouring business, this Autumn Statement has, in stark contrast, reverted to one of increased costs and taxes for business.