Spring Statement 2019

The traditional Spring Budget has been replaced by a smaller Spring Statement this year. Autumn’s main Budget will be when the Chancellor announces major tax and spending changes, and any other new measures. There was all the familiar ifs, buts and maybes around...

Crackdown on reckless directors

Tougher penalties for directors who dodge debts. Following Royal Assent of Finance Bill 2019/20, the government has announced that directors and other persons involved in tax avoidance, evasion or phoenixism (a minority of directors who deliberately dodge debts by...