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Talking tax - Current Tax 2020 course

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By Charlotte Barbour and Michael Steed

3 June 2020

Our Current Tax 2020 online courses will bring CAs up to speed with the latest changes and help you tackle the challenges ahead

At the time of writing, it may seem that the Covid-19 crisis is consuming all our thoughts and energies.

But we are still making plans for the future. The ICAS flagship course Current Tax 2020 is going online and will run in September, with a live session of two hours and a series of recorded sessions that attendees can access at their convenience - the equivalent of 6 hours of learning. The live session will be repeated on two different dates - choose the date most convenient for you - and we hope to see you there.

The live session is designed to be interactive and is an opportunity for you to share experiences and your tax questions with the presenters and fellow practitioners. It’s also an excellent day’s worth of in-depth updating of technical knowledge. The key tax changes taking place in 2020 will be highlighted.

Preparing for Brexit

There has been considerable uncertainty in recent years, for businesses and individuals, following the outcome of the EU referendum and the prolonged Brexit process.

The Conservatives’ December election victory has ended one phase of Brexit, with the UK formally leaving the EU at the end of January.

However, the absence of an agreement on the precise nature of the UK’s future relationship with the EU means no end yet to the uncertainty, although we hope for some further clarity by the autumn.

One of the key topics in Current Tax 2020 will be a session on how practitioners can prepare and offer advice to their clients for Brexit, including the relevant VAT rules and postponed accounting rules for VAT.


Attend Current Tax 2020

An excellent opportunity for accountants and staff involved in tax work to bring their technical knowledge up to date.

It covers the changes introduced both UK-wide and in Scotland. Charlotte Barbour CA, notes: “This course offers everything that is best about ICAS: an opportunity to learn from fellow CAs and a concentrated day focusing on current changes to tax law and practice that affect practitioners.”

WHEN AND WHERE 

The course will consist of a live session of two hours and a series of recorded sessions that attendees can access at their convenience - the equivalent of 6 hours of learning. The live session will be repeated on two different dates and you choose the date from the options below, that is most convenient for you.

LIVE SESSION DATES

Online Live, 15 September 2020, 10am-12pm
Online Live, 23 September 2020, 10am-12pm

Book your place


Changes to tax legislation - unpicking the finance bill

The Conservative election manifesto contained a commitment not to increase the main revenue-raising taxes.

But spending promises, and the emergency measures to assist businesses through the Covid-19 pandemic, need to be paid for.

The result will be tax changes at the edges that lack transparency – and increasingly complex and lengthy tax legislation, which makes it harder for taxpayers to understand and comply with their obligations.

While some honesty and transparency from our political leaders around the need to pay for public services would be helpful, at Current Tax 2020 we’ll set out to explain the key tax changes and their relevance to the OMB sector and members in practice.

This year’s Finance Bill also has a number of measures that have been long heralded and will need future actioning, such as the IR35 off-payroll working rules in the private sector.

Originally intended for April 2020 but now postponed until April 2021, these rules are designed to stop contractors artificially working off-payroll.

The changes are expected to bring in significant amounts of NIC and income tax to the government.

On the other hand, it will add to labour costs and bring uncertainty over who will bear the economic burden.

Such uncertainty will require clarity in contracts and status determinations.

Existing legislation that comes into effect in 2020

New CGT reporting and payment requirements for residential property disposals commenced in April.

This is not a new measure, but in spite of the numerous practical issues raised in consultation responses (by ICAS and other professional bodies), the government is implementing it.

There have been very limited advance communications from HMRC regarding the change and our experience with tax agents and their clients is that there is little awareness of the new requirements.

Taxpayers who are generally compliant, and would want to comply with the rules if they were aware of them, may well suffer unexpected penalties due to the failure to communicate the new rules in a timely and effective way.

Current Tax 2020 will examine how to manage the risks attaching to lack of awareness among clients and which may cause practical problems for tax advisers.

Entrepreneurs' relief

The Conservative manifesto promised to review and reform entrepreneurs’ relief (ER).

A recent National Audit Office report highlighted the £2.2bn cost of the relief in 2018-19, coupled with its limited impact on decision making, adding further likelihood to the idea that reform was waiting in the wings.

The measure announced in the Budget, and effective from Budget day, reduces the ER lifetime limit from £10m to £1m.

This is billed as leaving 80% of businesses unaffected, but for those who are it will have a major impact on the tax cost of business disposal.


This article first appeared in the June 2020 issue of CA magazine.

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