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His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (commonly HM Revenue and Customs, or HMRC) [4] [5] is a non-ministerial department of the UK government responsible for the collection of taxes, the payment of some forms of state support, the administration of other regulatory regimes including the national minimum wage and the issuance of national insurance numbers.
In order for a pension scheme to be recognised as a QNUPS it must meet strict HMRC guidelines. This requires companies providing QNUPS to reveal certain information to HMRC. Individuals wishing to transfer pension assets to a QNUPS must have been resident in the UK for tax purposes when the payment was being made or treated as being made.
April 2008 also saw the introduction of Entrepreneurs' Relief, which applied a lower 10% rate to some gains made by business owners, directors and employees on disposals of business assets and company shares. [7] The relief has always had a lifetime limit on qualifying gains by an individual, which was initially set at £1 million. [8]
In April and May 2012 HMRC introduced a new host of regulations that had the effect of shifting the jurisdictions in which QROPS could be established. Guernsey had previously been the premier jurisdiction for QROPS, but due to a conflict between local legislation and HMRC regulations, over 300 schemes were de-listed.
The basis for the tax is residential property, with discounts for single people. As of 2008, the average annual levy on a property in England was £1,146. [53] In 2006–2007 council tax in England amounted to £22.4 billion [54] and an additional £10.8 billion in sales, fees and charges. [55] [needs update]. In Scotland from April 2024, all ...
Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/573) Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 and Serious Crime Act 2007 (Consequential and Supplementary Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Order 2008 ( S.I. 2008/574 )
In response to the late-2000s recession, Labour Chancellor Alistair Darling announced in November 2008 that the standard rate of VAT would be reduced from 17.5% to 15% with effect from 1 December 2008. [16] [17] However, in December 2009, Darling announced that the standard rate of VAT would return to 17.5% with effect from 1 January 2010. [18 ...
After a period of consultation and re-draft, the new legislation became law in April 2007 with additional aspects coming into force in August 2007 and fully in January 2008. A PAYE umbrella company is effectively exempted from the legislation, which also seeks to pass the possible burden of unpaid debt (should a provider "collapse" a structure ...