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Sponsor a Tier 2 or 5 worker: guidance for employers 16 January 2018
UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) has updated its guide on how to apply for a Tier 2 or 5 sponsor licence and how to sponsor a migrant worker.
The guide is effective from 11 January 2018 and is the full policy guidance on sponsoring a migrant worker. It is for organisations who want to apply for a sponsor licence to sponsor migrants under Tier 2 and/or Tier 5 of the points- based system.
It tells you what the UKVI expect if you are a licence holder, the processes you must follow when sponsoring a migrant and how to meet all of the duties and responsibilities associated with being a licensed sponsor.
The guidance is subject to change and you should check the dates to make sure you have the latest version.
Tier 2 and 5: Guidance for sponsors
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Businesses need clarity on digital tax software 22 January 2018
The Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) is calling on software houses and HMRC to identify Making Tax Digital compliant software packages urgently to allow businesses to make an informed decision on which to use.
The Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) is urging software houses and HMRC to identify Making Tax Digital (MTD) compliant software packages urgently to allow businesses to make an informed decision on which to use and help to avoid the need to make a troublesome mid-accounting period change. As the ATT explains, some businesses will need to have MTD complaint software in place in just five months’ time. Under MTD, businesses above the VAT threshold (Currently £85,000) will be required to keep their records digitally and provide HMRC with quarterly VAT updates from the beginning of their first VAT quarter starting on or after 1 April 2019. Quarterly updates will have to be submitted to HMRC from software via an Application Programme Interface (API). It is therefore important for such businesses to make sure that they have an accounting package which can do this and, if not, ensure they do in good time for their first quarterly VAT update under MTD. The ATT says that for many, that may involve using software for the first time and at an unwelcome cost. Where a business has an accounting period which spans their first MTD VAT quarter, they will have to ensure they have appropriate software in place at the start of that accounting period (which may be well in advance of April 2019) or risk having to change accounting software mid-year.
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