Making Tax Digital (MTD) will be mandatory for VAT-registered businesses from 1 April 2022. MTD helps taxpayers get their tax returns right by reducing common mistakes as well as saving time managing their tax affairs and is a key part of the overall digitalisation of UK tax. VAT-registered businesses that have not yet signed up to MTD for VAT should do so now. All VAT-registered businesses must use MTD for VAT for their first VAT...
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Accidents and illness can happen at any time so it’s important that you know your organisation's provision for first aid. The HSE website has information on first aid at work for: employers employees first-aiders In addition, the site has links to a list of first aid related publications. This includes popular titles such as First aid at work: Your questions answered and Basic advice on first aid at work.
A timetable for changes to Wales’ Test Trace Protect service is being published today (28 March) as part of wider plans to gradually move beyond the emergency response to the pandemic. A new Social Care Transition Plan is also being published today (28 March), which will set out new arrangements for care homes between April and June. The changes come as Wales today takes further cautious steps to relax some of the legal protections which...
Helpful reminders ahead of 1 April 2022: the new Plastic Packaging Tax (PPT) comes into force on 1 April 2022. From this date if you manufacture or import plastic packaging you must check if you are liable for PPT. You will have 30 days to register for the tax from the date you become liable go to GOV.UK and check the steps to help you decide if your business is liable for PPT nobody will...
As an employer running payroll, you need to: report to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) on the previous tax year (which ends on 5 April) and give your employees a P60 prepare for the new tax year, which starts on 6 April HMRC have published important information for employers on GOV.UK, which includes: help finishing the tax year 2021 to 2022 starting the new tax year 2022 to 2023, by using their form P9X (2022)...
The way people work has significantly changed since the pandemic and the Welsh Government is keen to do all it can to help lock in the positive benefits experienced by many and encourage more businesses to adopt this new approach to working. In a strategy published today (25 March 2022) the Welsh Government sets out its plans to work with businesses, trade unions and key stakeholders to help more employers to adopt a more agile...
Join UK FinTech Week across the UK from 4 April to 8 April 2022, which will showcase Innovation in financial services on a global stage. UK Fin Tech Week is returning as a brand new hybrid concept, expect five days of world-class content delivered by some of the biggest names in finance, government and tech. FinTech founders, bank ex-cos, technologists, entrepreneurs, investors, regulators, policy-makers, politicians, academics and media from around the world will come together...
From Monday 28 March 2022, face coverings will no longer be required by law in retail settings and on public transport, though they will continue to be recommended in public health advice. And the requirement to self-isolate will also move into guidance. A £500 self-isolation payment to support people will continue to be available until June. However, 2 key legal protections will remain in place as coronavirus cases have risen sharply in recent weeks, driven...
The National Forest for Wales is a unique venture to establish a nationwide network of publically accessible woodlands and forests. It will: stretch the length and breadth of Wales, making it accessible to everyone be a real community venture with new woodland being planted by communities, farmers and landowners right across Wales create new areas of woodland as well as restoring and maintaining Wales' unique and irreplaceable existing woodlands protect nature and address biodiversity loss...
Urdd Gobaith Cymru is a National Voluntary Youth Organisation with over 55,000 members between the ages of 8 to 25 years old and provides opportunities through the medium of Welsh for children and young people in Wales to enable them to make positive contributions to their communities. This year’s Urdd Eisteddfod take place in Denbighshire from 30 May to 4 June 2022. There are nearly 500 competitions to choose from for children and young people...