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The government has launched England’s second Investment Zone in Liverpool focused on life sciences.

The Treasury Committee calls for a systematic review into the cost of over a thousand tax reliefs which complicate the tax system and are open to abuse.

HMRC’s Stakeholder Digest (27 July 2023) confirms the end of the concessionary treatment of assignments of the right to receive tax repayments.

HMRC has published a new guidance page on how employees can claim a tax refund for negative earnings.

HMRC and HM Treasury have launched a joint consultation on the role of tax incentives in boosting occupational health (OH) provision by employers.

HMRC has published pension schemes newsletter 152.

These Regulations provide a disregard from earnings, for NICs purposes, for compensation payments made under the public service pensions remedy.

HMRC has published Agent Update issue 110 (19 July 2023) providing a round-up of recent developments and changes to legislation and allowances relating to UK tax for tax agents and advisers.

This instrument makes consequential amendments in light of the F(No 2)A 2023 changes that provide for NIC relief in investment zones.

This treaty was presented to Parliament in July 2023. The explanatory memorandum provides information on the Convention on Social Security Coordination between Iceland, the Principality of Liechtenstein, the Kingdom of Norway, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

In the Treasury minutes published on 17 July 2023, the government has responded, among other things, to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report from session 2022-23 on managing tax compliance following the COVID-19 pandemic.

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These Regulations exempt certain top-up payments made under the Post Office Limited’s Horizon Shortfall Scheme (HSS) from income tax, capital gains tax and Class 1 NICs.

Finance (No 2) Act 2023

These regulations extend the deadline for paying voluntary National Insurance Contributions (NICs) for tax years between 6 April 2006 and 5 April 2018 to 5 April 2025.

The CIOT has responded to the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) inquiry into Progress with Making Tax Digital.

3 July 2023 - This roundup sets out the most important changes to HMRC manuals over the past week as curated by our editors.

HMRC is increasing the late-payment interest rate to 7.50% and the repayment rate to 4% from 11 July 2023. Interest on quarterly instalment payments of corporation tax is also increased from 3 July 2023.

HMRC has published pension schemes newsletter 151 (June 2023). In particular, the newsletter confirms that following the Spring Budget 2023 announcement that the lifetime allowance charge would be removed from 6 April 2023 and fully abolished from the 2024 to 2025 tax year, the government has amended the Finance (No. 2) Bill to make clear that any amount of a stand-alone lump sum in excess of the 5 April 2023 maximum may still be paid to the member as a stand-alone lump sum, with the excess being subject to the member’s marginal rate of Income Tax. The newsletter also provides further information on the rules that apply to the taxation of stand-alone lump sum payments and how they should be reported.

These Regulations update the list of high-risk third countries in relation to which enhanced due diligence measures are required under the principal Money Laundering Regulations.