Rowley's Chartered Accountants Leicester

Are you ready for the Pension reform? What changes are being introduced? Who will be affected by these changes? When will the new rules be in place?

Improved efficiency and a strengthened management team have put a Northamptonshire storage and pallet business further on the road to success.

Under the Agency Workers Regulations, workers supplied by an agency become entitled to receive pay and basic working conditions equivalent to any directly employed employees after a 12 week qualifying period.

On Tuesday 29th November the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) published its updated forecast for the UK economy. Chancellor George Osborne responded to that forecast in a statement to the House of Commons later on that day.

To reflect recent increases in fuel prices HMRC have announced new advisory fuel rates* to be applied from 1st December 2011.

The government is set to introduce compulsory workplace pensions from 2012 and vast numbers of employers, from the largest to the smallest, will be affected.  This will result in increased administration and financial cost and these changes will impact on you and your business.

HMRC's latest campaign is targeting taxpayers with income from providing private and/or self-employed tuition and coaching as a main or secondary income on which the correct amount of tax has not been paid.

We are reminding individuals and partnerships about the new Self Assessment penalties for late returns and late payments, which come into effect this autumn.

HMRC have advised that there are apparently more Self Assessment statements than usual to issue this year. Normally these would be issued in July but this year some will be issued later.

To reflect recent increases in fuel prices HMRC have announced new advisory fuel rates* to be applied from 1st June 2011.