


Economic forecasts dampen for 2022
The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has revised its forecast for GDP growth in 2022, which is now expected to grow at half the rate as it did in 2021. GDP is now expected to grow in 2022 by 3.6%, revised down from 4.2% and compared to 7.5% growth in 2021. The...
Government launches online sales tax public consultation
The Government has opened a public consultation into a new online sales tax (OST) to “rebalance” the taxation of online and in-store retail businesses. The Treasury published its consultation on 25 February 2022, seeking answers from stakeholders on 40 questions about...
Over one million individuals use extra time to file tax returns
More than one million individuals completed their self-assessment tax return by the extended deadline at the end of February 2022. HMRC estimates 11.3m of 12.2m of the taxpayers who had to file a self-assessment tax return for the 2020/21 tax year did so by 28...
Personal tax changes for 2022/23
Tax changes kicking in from 6 April. By the time you’re reading this, the new tax year is either just about to start or has already started. Some of the changes have been public knowledge for months now and some of the rises have been anxiously awaited as the country...