Policy News Journal - 2017-18

Automatic enrolment – Getting it right The last employers to stage will start their automatic enrolment duties start on 1 Feb 2018. This meeting will tell you about common mistakes and how to avoid them - and the latest updates on compliance and our enforcement actions. In addition, we will cover the details around the first increase in the legal minimum contribution rates on 6th April, as well as how to correctly process tax relief for employee pension contributions.

Tuesday 20 February - 1pm to 2pm

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Admitting Tax Fraud Helping us tackle it

Wednesday 21 February - midday to 1.00pm Wednesday 21 February - 2pm to 3pm

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If you have any questions for HMRC subject experts more than 24 hours prior to the meeting, please send them to team.agentengagement@hmrc.gsi.gov.uk , including the title of the meeting in the ‘Subject’ line of your email. Any questions that arise after this time should be submitted during the live meeting.

These interactive meetings run on the GoToWebinar platform. The organiser will run through how to ask questions on the day

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Tax agents: Changes to managing your client lists online 15 February 2018

HMRC’s recent Tax agent blog highlights a change from 26 February 2018. As an agent, from this date the “ your account ” section will enable you to directly manage your client lists online.

Andrew Laing is part of the Government Gateway Transformation Programme and he writes that:

Agents have historically only been able to manage their client lists by going to the Government Gateway website. As part of our transformation work we have developed the option for this to be done within HMRC services. Our user research says, you think this is a good thing and we have also made some improvements to the layout and feel of functions so that it looks and behaves more like other HMRC services. The changes will be delivered on the 26 February 2018. When you login through HMRC services: sign in or register . As an agent the “your account” section will enable you to directly manage your client lists. We are also enhancing the screens for enrolling and de-enrolling from services which will be accessed via “your home page”.

Go to GOV.UK to read the full blog, where you can also leave comments.

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Agent Update 64 21 February 2018

HMRC has published the latest Agent Update which details guidance, developments and changes to legislation relating to UK tax.

Amongst many other updates this Agent Update highlights that:

 Amendments have been made to the Statutory Maternity Pay Calculators on GOV.UK to allow employers to input the number of monthly earnings the employee has received in the relevant eight week period. This will

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