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The CIOT has published a Finance Bill 2024-25 briefing on the report stage amendments for non-domicile changes.

HMRC has published its latest Stakeholder Digest (February 2025). This edition includes updates on new campaigns, guidance, and consultations relevant to UK tax practitioners.

Guidance on working out qualifying income for Making Tax Digital for Income Tax has been updated.

These Regulations are made to amend 29 pieces of UK secondary legislation in consequence of the Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Act 2023, which makes provision for entitlements, leave and pay for employees with responsibility for children receiving neonatal care.

These Regulations implement a new statutory entitlement to Neonatal Care Leave and Pay for employed parents if their child receives neonatal care starting within 28 days of birth and goes on to spend seven or more continuous days in care and provide employed parents with up to twelve weeks of paid leave. Together, the package will ensure that parents who are employees will be supported to take time away from work to care for their child who is receiving or has received Neonatal Care.

These Regulations deal with the entitlement to Neonatal Care Pay for employees who fall into particular categories of employment, for example: mariners, those employed in certain types of employment on the continental shelf, and those who have spent time working abroad, including in European Economic Area (EEA) states, who might otherwise not qualify for the entitlement.

The Scottish Parliament has approved the Scottish Government’s 2025-26 Budget.

The UK government has put forward 66 amendments to Finance Bill 2025 to be considered at Report Stage on 3 March 2025.

The 2025 UK-Andorra Double Taxation Convention was signed in London on 20 February 2025.

24 February 2025 - This roundup sets out the most important changes to HMRC manuals over the past week as curated by our

HMRC has published Issue 128 of the Agent Update which includes updates and reminders on MTD for income tax, employers NIC changes and filing of returns without an overlap relief figure.

The CIOT have issued a response to HMRC’s call for evidence on Personal Tax: Offshore Anti-Avoidance legislation.

The Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language has tabled the Welsh Government’s Final Budget for 2025-26.

These Regulations are made to amend the Income and Corporation Taxes (Electronic Communications) Regulations 2003, SI 2003/282 to so that an insignificant technical error, in an electronic delivery to HMRC of information to which SI 2003/282 apply, does not completely invalidate the delivery. They ensure that the significance of any failure to adhere to the technical conditions is taken into account in assessing the validity of an electronic delivery.

HMRC has agreed to amend its guidance on the application of condition C of the LLP salaried member rules within

HMRC has published the GAAR Advisory Panel opinion dated 29 October 2024, concerning the creation of obligations to make pension payments to employees and the transfer of those obligations to another employee in exchange for payment.

17 February 2025 - This roundup sets out the most important changes to HMRC manuals over the past week as curated by our editors

HMRC has issued a briefing explaining its operational activity during the new independent review of the loan charge.

These Regulations are made to amend the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 2001, SI 2001/1004 to add a requirement for employers who are claiming the zero rate of secondary Class 1 (employer) National Insurance contributions in respect of employees who work in special tax sites in freeports or investment zones in Great Britain, to include the postcode for the address at which the employee works in their Full Payment Submission.

HMRC is reducing the late-payment interest rate to 7.00% and the repayment rate to 3.50% from 25 February 2025 for most taxes and payments. Interest on quarterly instalment payments of corporation tax will also be reduced from 17 February.