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Enhanced Capital Allowances

Energy is currently a hot topic. Rising wholesale oil and gas prices are being passed on to the consumer – business and private – in increased gas and electricity bills. Concurrently, investment in low carbon solutions – primarily ...
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VAT treatment for travel agents

Many travel companies have been contacted over the last few months by a special HMRC unit about the correct VAT treatment.

Whilst the position for principals is undisputed (HMRC has always considered that any charges were part of the price for ...

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When are credit card fees liable to VAT?

My colleague Damon Wright, Director of VAT Services at MHA MacIntyre Hudson, has written the below article addressing this question:

 

With reducing margins and commissions, travel companies have been generating revenue, or at least c...

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Cash accounting for the smallest businesses?

 

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) have recently released proposals for a simplified reporting regime for the smallest businesses. Plans to exempt micros from the accounting requ...

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Guidance on furnished holiday letting rules

http://www.ion.icaew.com/TaxFaculty/22823

Guidance from the Tax Faculty and a helpsheet from HMRC.

The rules have changed for 2011/12 and will change again for 2012/13 and following years.

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The VAT Maze – are you getting your VAT right?

With a large hole in the public finances it is not perhaps surprising that the Revenue & Customs (HMRC) are actively seeking ways to target additional VAT revenue from UK based travel businesses, particularly as the Med Hotels case from 2010 has...

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Budget 2011: the critical issues likely to impact the sector

Reflection on the budget impact on the leisure and hospitality sector

Although the Budget is widely regarded as being “business friendly” particularly because of headline grabbing measures such as the reduction in corporation tax rates and...

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The impact of IAS 17 on our industry

I have seen one or two references to the impact IFRS 17 will have on our industry; Starwood has dissolved its partnership with Arabella apparently on the back of the changed reporting obligations; Accor is restructuring in part in anticipation.

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Furnished Holiday Lettings an update and the consultation

Furnished Holiday Lettings

 

A consultation document has been published and comments are required by 22 October with a view to legislation being introduced in Finance Bill 2011.

 

The proposals are designed to ensure t...

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Travel and tourism seminar: papers and presentations

Earlier in the year the Corporate Finance Faculty held a sector seminar on travel and tourism here are the presentations for those of you who were unable to make the day.

The travel, leisure and tourism sector has had a difficult time la...