VAT, Payroll & Tax - The Book-keepers Forum (UK)

Cheshire · Cheshire

HMRC have issues with vat online. Nothing on the service issues pages (why are we not surprised) a good hour after my first few (read many!) attempts, although a promise it was being updated. Hmrc staff have no clue when it will be fixed. They say it's intermittent, but I was trying for over three hours...

avisonjohn · avisonjohn

I have a limited company which is not VAT registered and have an online store which sells physical items to the UK and Ireland - I am soon to extend this to World Wide. I wish to sell products which may be considered digital products and therefore the EU VAT Place of Supply Rules would apply. I am trying to f...

Cheshire · Cheshire

Hi Would I be correct in saying that a donation to a charity with its base in say Africa is NOT a qualifying charitable donation? Plus out of interest and as I was pondering the above - where would the donation go if it was a qualifying donation to a UK charity ( I can see it in sage, but cant in VT trans +.) A...

Sarah1204 · Sarah1204

I have recently joined a medium size business to discover using Sage 50 the VAT has not been reconciled since Jan 2016. I would like to reconcile the vat quarterly and correctly. Not wanting to go back and reconcile every older quarter is there anything else I can do ?.

Samilou67 · Samilou67

Hi I have a client who is a self-employed surveyor and basically 2 or 3 days a week he travels from his home to various addresses in the UK to compile structural reports. He claims the mileage but what else would he be entitled to claim, for example he gives me receipts for coffees and cakes (not usually a p...

Poppy80 · Poppy80

Hi there, I have just started working for a company which is US based, although they are branching out and have this year started to set up and sell from the UK as well. There are only 3 of us in the UK office and the VAT has landed on me. They have already submitted 2 qtrs before I started, and looking at the...

Artois · Artois

Hi all I have a client (sole trader) who runs school clubs both at lunchtimes and after school at a few different schools, she sometimes travels from home to one school and then back home and on other occasions travels from the lunch club on to the after school club, there is no permanent workplace as th...

Redspottedhanky · Redspottedhanky

Hi all! I'm just starting to review the year together for my main company, which is a property owner/ developer, and I've got a VAT query. Rental properties are exempt from VAT, for both sales and purchases wholly relating to the rental. However, when you have something that is already rated, shoul...

Artois · Artois

Hi everyone I was just wondering how others go about reminding clients (sole traders/partnerships) who have not submitted there Tax Returns as of yet. I only have 3 outstanding and spoke to all of them about a month ago explaining the deadlines and all agreed to get their accounts to me by the beginni...

Leger · Leger

Just a bit of a whinge really but I was asked by one of my clients today if I could assist in getting a young lad set up as self employed. This particular client helps disadvantaged youngsters in a charity role, which is how it came to his attention. The lad has been given no option but to go self employed or...

Leger · Leger

Eeeek. I've been doing tax returns for years and put no when it says do you have a tax adviser. Just submitted a return for a subby and elected my business as the nominee for the very first time. It then asked if the nominee was the tax adviser and I'm thiking that if I put no they will think it's a 3rd part...

Nikole · Nikole

Evening All Are there any payroll gurus available for me to source some advice. Thank you :)

maddy1980 · maddy1980

Hi there The director of the company I do books for is paid a low salary below the upper earnings limit topped up with dividends which are tax free till £5000 above the personal allowance. However, the director has commenced self employment in an unrelated kind of work. So what I would like to clarify fo...

Princess · Princess

I have a new client that made a profit on a policy which went on his tax return a few years ago. Since then he has sold other parts of the policy which has resulted in a loss each year. A chargeable event certificate detailing the loss was issued in each of the years. Last year he sold the remainder and the...

Princess · Princess

Hello, in the past QuickBooks payroll didn't get very good reviews on here for various reasons. Has anyone used it in the online version and if so is it any better? I'm a happy Moneysoft user but I've had an enquiry from a client who wants to use QuickBooks for her payroll. Any views would be appreciat...

Leger · Leger

Mr Hammond will be giving us the the new budget on Wednesday. Any thoughts has to what is likely to be in it? I can see a potential reduction in the threshold of VAT, which has been mooted of late. Think they might have a stab of reducing it down by 10k a year over 5-6 years, thus bringing more and more busi...

Leger · Leger

Been asked (through a client) if I can set up someone as self employed, but it's only so they can submit an invoice (not to my client) for a one off. Am I right in recalling that you can just notify HMRC if the amount is below £2000? Invoice is for £1650 so its close, or am I probably best off doing it anyway i...

LisaB1981 · LisaB1981

Hi all, Just after some advice regarding VAT with Campaign Monitor....Has anyone had any experience with the company? I am in the UK and receive 'monthly tax invoices' from them but it states 'As an Australian company, we don't have a VAT number' .... the previous accountants put these monthly tran...

Rachel767 · Rachel767

I know it's possible in theory, but has anyone ever set up a non-exclusive rent agreement between a company and a director, either for yourselves or for clients? I use my home office 5 days a week and it's 1 of 4 rooms in the house, so my thinking was that if I charge a rental of 5/7 x 1/4 x costs, so that I don't...

Denise Forrest · Denise Forrest

Hi Just wondered what you would recommend for payroll software, I require it for 2 directors and 1 employee. There seem to be a few free software packages I could use but would appreciate your recommendations, thanks

Topic		Started By	Replies	Views	Last Post
	Vat online service issues (Preview) HMRC have issues with vat online. Nothing on the service issues pages (why are we not surprised) a good hour after my first few (read many!) attempts, although a promise it was being updated. Hmrc staff have no clue when it will be fixed. They say it's intermittent, but I was trying for over three hours...	Cheshire	6	1192	Mon Jan 8 11:12 2018 by Leger
	EU VAT Rules for Supply Of Digital Goods (Preview) I have a limited company which is not VAT registered and have an online store which sells physical items to the UK and Ireland - I am soon to extend this to World Wide. I wish to sell products which may be considered digital products and therefore the EU VAT Place of Supply Rules would apply. I am trying to f...	avisonjohn	1	1273	Sun Jan 7 18:02 2018 by Cheshire
	Qualifying charitable dons, VT and taxfiler. (Preview) Hi Would I be correct in saying that a donation to a charity with its base in say Africa is NOT a qualifying charitable donation? Plus out of interest and as I was pondering the above - where would the donation go if it was a qualifying donation to a UK charity ( I can see it in sage, but cant in VT trans +.) A...	Cheshire	15	1707	Thu Jan 4 17:47 2018 by Cheshire
	Un-reconciled VAT Sage 50 (Preview) I have recently joined a medium size business to discover using Sage 50 the VAT has not been reconciled since Jan 2016. I would like to reconcile the vat quarterly and correctly. Not wanting to go back and reconcile every older quarter is there anything else I can do ?.	Sarah1204	4	1492	Wed Dec 20 18:31 2017 by VinceH
	Allowable expenses (Preview) Hi I have a client who is a self-employed surveyor and basically 2 or 3 days a week he travels from his home to various addresses in the UK to compile structural reports. He claims the mileage but what else would he be entitled to claim, for example he gives me receipts for coffees and cakes (not usually a p...	Samilou67	2	1196	Wed Dec 13 09:27 2017 by Cheshire
	VAT Query (Preview) Hi there, I have just started working for a company which is US based, although they are branching out and have this year started to set up and sell from the UK as well. There are only 3 of us in the UK office and the VAT has landed on me. They have already submitted 2 qtrs before I started, and looking at the...	Poppy80	4	1248	Sun Dec 10 09:24 2017 by Cheshire
	Travel from home to work (Preview) Hi all I have a client (sole trader) who runs school clubs both at lunchtimes and after school at a few different schools, she sometimes travels from home to one school and then back home and on other occasions travels from the lunch club on to the after school club, there is no permanent workplace as th...	Artois	4	1147	Thu Dec 7 15:32 2017 by Artois
	0 Rated or Exempt VAT? (Preview) Hi all! I'm just starting to review the year together for my main company, which is a property owner/ developer, and I've got a VAT query. Rental properties are exempt from VAT, for both sales and purchases wholly relating to the rental. However, when you have something that is already rated, shoul...	Redspottedhanky	23	1875	Thu Dec 7 14:02 2017 by Leger
	Client Reminders (Preview) Hi everyone I was just wondering how others go about reminding clients (sole traders/partnerships) who have not submitted there Tax Returns as of yet. I only have 3 outstanding and spoke to all of them about a month ago explaining the deadlines and all agreed to get their accounts to me by the beginni...	Artois	12	1302	Tue Dec 5 15:18 2017 by Artois
	Forced self employment (Preview) Just a bit of a whinge really but I was asked by one of my clients today if I could assist in getting a young lad set up as self employed. This particular client helps disadvantaged youngsters in a charity role, which is how it came to his attention. The lad has been given no option but to go self employed or...	Leger	8	1163	Tue Dec 5 14:07 2017 by Cheshire
	I've just discovered I'm a tax adviser (Preview) Eeeek. I've been doing tax returns for years and put no when it says do you have a tax adviser. Just submitted a return for a subby and elected my business as the nominee for the very first time. It then asked if the nominee was the tax adviser and I'm thiking that if I put no they will think it's a 3rd part...	Leger	7	1216	Tue Dec 5 14:01 2017 by Cheshire
	Payroll Guru Needed (Preview) Evening All Are there any payroll gurus available for me to source some advice. Thank you :)	Nikole	19	1308	Tue Dec 5 14:00 2017 by Cheshire
	Director's salary, dividends and self employment (Preview) Hi there The director of the company I do books for is paid a low salary below the upper earnings limit topped up with dividends which are tax free till £5000 above the personal allowance. However, the director has commenced self employment in an unrelated kind of work. So what I would like to clarify fo...	maddy1980	4	1146	Thu Nov 30 13:24 2017 by Leger
	chargeable event loss (Preview) I have a new client that made a profit on a policy which went on his tax return a few years ago. Since then he has sold other parts of the policy which has resulted in a loss each year. A chargeable event certificate detailing the loss was issued in each of the years. Last year he sold the remainder and the...	Princess	4	1344	Thu Nov 23 15:15 2017 by Princess
	Quickbooks Online payroll (Preview) Hello, in the past QuickBooks payroll didn't get very good reviews on here for various reasons. Has anyone used it in the online version and if so is it any better? I'm a happy Moneysoft user but I've had an enquiry from a client who wants to use QuickBooks for her payroll. Any views would be appreciat...	Princess	0	1192	Thu Nov 23 15:14 2017 by Princess
	Budget 2017 (Preview) Mr Hammond will be giving us the the new budget on Wednesday. Any thoughts has to what is likely to be in it? I can see a potential reduction in the threshold of VAT, which has been mooted of late. Think they might have a stab of reducing it down by 10k a year over 5-6 years, thus bringing more and more busi...	Leger	13	1640	Thu Nov 23 12:34 2017 by Leger
	One off self employment income (Preview) Been asked (through a client) if I can set up someone as self employed, but it's only so they can submit an invoice (not to my client) for a one off. Am I right in recalling that you can just notify HMRC if the amount is below £2000? Invoice is for £1650 so its close, or am I probably best off doing it anyway i...	Leger	4	1363	Wed Nov 22 16:55 2017 by Cheshire
	Campaign Monitor (Preview) Hi all, Just after some advice regarding VAT with Campaign Monitor....Has anyone had any experience with the company? I am in the UK and receive 'monthly tax invoices' from them but it states 'As an Australian company, we don't have a VAT number' .... the previous accountants put these monthly tran...	LisaB1981	9	2023	Wed Nov 8 15:51 2017 by Cheshire
	Director charging company rent (Preview) I know it's possible in theory, but has anyone ever set up a non-exclusive rent agreement between a company and a director, either for yourselves or for clients? I use my home office 5 days a week and it's 1 of 4 rooms in the house, so my thinking was that if I charge a rental of 5/7 x 1/4 x costs, so that I don't...	Rachel767	8	1433	Tue Nov 7 16:17 2017 by Rachel767
	Payroll Software Recommendations (Preview) Hi Just wondered what you would recommend for payroll software, I require it for 2 directors and 1 employee. There seem to be a few free software packages I could use but would appreciate your recommendations, thanks	Denise Forrest	5	1569	Tue Nov 7 12:40 2017 by Denise Forrest
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