Making Tax Digital – HMRC Case Studies

HMRC have 4 fictional case studies, they are on the are on the Overview of Making Tax Digital page of the HMRC website and this was last updated on 13th July 2017

Click to access Making_tax_digital_-_case_studies.pdf

  • Geeta – the teacher who also does some tuition
  • Richard – the landscape gardener who has just become VAT registered
  • Helen – retired
  • Dave and his Wife – who are directors of a small plumbing company

Basically

Geeta uses a App on her smartphone for record keeping

Richard was using an agent but then moves to a digital tax account

Helen uses a Personal Tax Account

Dave uses an App to provide information to his accountant

So Apps are very popular!

HMRC seem to assume that most people want to do their own record keeping and that small businesses like Geeta and Richard will no longer use accountants or book keepers.

We have an extremely complicated tax system, so how realistic is that, even HMRC struggle to calculate your tax correctly!

The way that allowances are applied for dividends, allowances, savings and other items all impact on each other.

Many tax payers will be working on their 2016/17 returns (to 5th April 2017 due by 31st January 2018) over the coming months and find that they can’t use the HMRC software because it doesn’t work properly.

As reported by Accounting Web

Rob Ellis, CEO of BTCSoftware, can’t remember a year when there have been so many exclusions from filing SA tax returns online. For the 2016/17 tax returns 16 new examples have been added to the online filing exclusions list, which is now in version 4;  there is a version 5 of this list under construction.

You can read the full list of exclusion on this link https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/622426/2017-exc-indi.pdf

There were 62 exclusions! HMRC have fixed some but aren’t intending to fix them all

 

steve@bicknells.net

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