April 2022 News and Blogs

Claiming the right business expenses means you’ll pay the right amount of tax, find out by joining HMRC’s live webinars – during which you can ask questions using the on-screen text box. Car expenses and the self-employed If you’re using your own car for business, HMRC can tell you about ways to work out simplified and actual cost expenses, plus leasing a car and personal contract purchases. Register here Business expenses for the self-employed HMRC...

Organisations can apply for a share of up to £7.6 million (inclusive of VAT) to develop demonstrators that enable lower emissions and a greener railway, innovations in rail freight, and cost efficiencies and performance priorities for a reliable railway. This competition aims to demonstrate innovations to stakeholders and railway customers in a representative railway environment. This is a Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) competition funded by the Department for Transport (DfT). This competition is part...

Hay Festival has unveiled the full programme for its 35th spring edition in Hay-on-Wye, from 26 May to 5 June 2022, with more than 500 in-person events. Returning for its first in-person spring event since 2019, Hay Festival is the world’s leading festival of ideas, bringing readers and writers together in sustainable events to inspire, examine and entertain. Events begin with the free Programme for Schools before HAYDAYS and #HAYYA events for families encourage young...

Small Business Saturday are celebrating 10 years of epic small business love in the run up to the big day this year on 3 December 2022. The build-up to the biggest celebration of small businesses you have ever seen starts now, with all the usual suspects and more: a huge nationwide zero emissions The Tour 2022, #SmallBiz100 is back with applications opening on 1 June 2022 and much, much more! More news on what’s coming...

HMRC has updated its guidance on tax treatment of tips, gratuities, service charges and troncs to include details on how to handle electronic payments. The payment of tips is commonplace for employees in the catering and service industries. As the pandemic has accelerated a move away from payment in cash, there has also been a shift towards customers paying tips electronically. HMRC has updated its guidance for employers to include examples of systems for the...

The Near Ready Leadership Programme has been designed following the Ministerial objective to increase diversity on public body boards, aligned with the strategy set out in 'Reflecting and Running Wales - Diversity & Inclusion Strategy for Public Appointments in Wales'. The goal is to create a robust pipeline of potential board members, ensuring that individuals from ethnic minority backgrounds and disabled people of high calibre, expertise and skills, who are nearly ready to apply can...

SmallBusiness.co.uk is delighted to announce that nominations are open for the 2022 British Business Awards!   Now in their fifth year, the awards have recognised and celebrated the innovative and outstanding achievements of small and medium size British businesses across all industries. The British Business Awards offers you and your colleagues the opportunity to gain the industry and country-wide recognition you deserve. These awards are open to any businesses in the UK which fall within the...

This is the moment to change it all — the business climate, the political climate, and how we take action on climate. Now is the time for the unstoppable courage to preserve and protect our health, our families, and our livelihoods. For Earth Day 2022, which takes place on 22 April, we need to act (boldly), innovate (broadly), and implement (equitably). It’s going to take all of us. All in. Businesses, governments, and citizens —...

The April edition of the Employer Bulletin brings you all the latest HMRC updates and guidance to support employers, payroll professionals and agents. Included in this edition are important updates on: coronavirus (COVID-19) information on easements ending PAYE settlement agreement deadlines reporting expenses and benefits for tax year ending 5 April 2022 claiming employment allowance from April 2022 small businesses are being invited to share their views through the Tell ABAB 2022 survey working from...

The Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing, Lynne Neagle MS, is encouraging eligible families to sign up for Healthy Start to get healthy food and vitamins for free. Families can get a pre-paid card that is topped up every 4 weeks with credit to buy healthy food – fruit, vegetables, pulses and milk and infant formula. They can also get free Healthy Start vitamins. Currently, nearly 40% of people within Wales who are eligible...