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The CIPP’s latest Quick Poll: How has working from home affected your productivity? 11 June 2020
The CIPP’s Policy and Research team has launched its latest Quick Poll on the CIPP’s News Online page.
Following government advice on how to stop the spread of coronavirus, many companies have asked their staff to work from home, where possible, and this has been the case for a number of months now.
The Policy and Research team would like to know how working from home has affected the productivity of payroll professionals, or, indeed if it has had no impact at all. There will be staff who have not been working from home and also employees who worked from home prior to the outbreak of coronavirus, who have not seen any change to the way in which they work. Regardless of your situation, we want to hear from all of you. We appreciate that, particularly under the certain circumstances, payroll departments are under enormous amounts of pressure to get people paid both accurately and on time, so we would be really grateful if you could spare a moment of your time to answer the latest Quick Poll so that we can get an insight into how home working has affected those within the payroll profession.
We will publish the results of the Quick Poll in News Online.
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CIPP Survey: Tackling abuse within the Construction Industry 12 June 2020
To support the CIPP’s written response to HMRC’s consultation on potential changes to the rules to prevent tax loss from the operation of the Construction Industry Scheme (CIS), the Policy team has designed a survey.
The survey aims to collect views and feedback on proposals to grant HMRC a new power to correct CIS deduction amounts claimed via Real Time Information (RTI) and on changes to existing rules, hopefully identifying any additional adjustments that could be made to tackle abuse of the CIS. The survey also asks for opinions relating to early ideas around construction supply chains. The government recognises that most of the businesses within the construction sector meet their CIS obligations, in full and on time, however there are a minority of business that are abusing the rules by extracting cash from the tax system to falsely reduce their tax liabilities. By doing so, it allows them to gain an unfair cash-flow advantage over their competitors. From April 2021, HMRC will have the power to correct the amount of CIS deductions claimed on a sub-contractor employer’s return where they are identified as, or suspected of, claiming inaccurate amounts. Clarification on the law regarding “material deductions’ and ‘deemed contractors’ will also be implemented.
A new provision will be introduced which will allow HMRC to correct the CIS deduction figures on a contractor’s EPS submission where there is no satisfactory evidence to support the claim.
As well as correcting the EPS figures, HMRC will prevent the employer from the offset of further CIS deductions, against their employer liabilities, for the remainder of the tax year. Consideration to continue off-setting, after a correction has been made, will be made if an employer, after the event, provides evidence to support CIS deductions suffered.
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