Changes to furlough scheme from 1 July 2021
The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) commonly known as the furlough scheme is open to all UK employers to access support to continue paying part of their employees’ salary for employees that
Resilience
One of the lessons we should take away from the COVID experience – in a business context – is the ability to recover quickly from unexpected challenges.
Firms in the hospitality and entertainment
Boost to UK tourism
In a boost to UK tourism, the government has launched a new Tourism Recovery Plan to help the sector bounce back from the pandemic. The plan is to recover domestic tourism to pre-pandemic levels by
Temporary trade credit insurance scheme to end
Trade credit insurance is a contract bought by suppliers to make sure they get paid even if their customers default and cannot pay the bills. This gives businesses the confidence to trade with one
No time for head in the sand tactics
Companies that are still claiming the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme grants, now known as the furlough scheme, will have hard choices to make come the end of September when the present scheme
Holiday update
As lockdown is being eased and opportunity to holiday opens, we felt it might be useful to set out bank holiday dates for the UK regions for the rest of this year.
England and Wales –
Taxing your car
The instructions to tax your car on the GOV.UK website is reproduced below:
To tax your car, motorcycle or other vehicle you will need to use a reference number from:
a recent reminder (V11) or
COVID support grants that are taxable
We would like to remind readers that existing legislation is in place to ensure that COVID support grants are treated as taxable income in the same way as other taxable receipts. The grants are
Recovery Loan Scheme
The new Recovery Loan Scheme was launched on 6 April 2021. The new scheme allows businesses of any size to access loans and other kinds of finance between £25,000 and £10 million. The scheme will
Treasury directive re fourth SEISS grant
HM Treasury has published a further Treasury Direction made under the Coronavirus Act 2020, ss. 71 and 76, which modifies and extends the effect of the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS).
