Payment on Death of Employee to Spouse

I am looking for guidance on the correct tax treatment of a payment from an employer to the spouse of a deceased employee. Background:  The death was not by accident during service. Prior to the death there were no agreed schemes, agreements etc. in place for the...

Carbon tax needs to be carefully designed for change

There is a “vital need” for the government to minimise the impact of a new tax on greenhouse gases produced in the manufacture of energy-intensive goods imported to the UK, with the compliance burden “likely to hit small businesses the hardest”. The idea of a carbon...

Money paid to a lender by an insurance company

Appreciate, if anyone in this forum could advice on below issues, I am facing. My client has financed a business van three years back. The vehicle met with an accident and insurance company  writtn off the  vehicle and paid outstanding loan amount directly to the...

ATT/CIOT email phishing issue

Just received an email to say that ATT/CIOT have investigated themselves and reckon that they weren’t hacked and that, instead, someone scraped our email addresses from their website search function. Is anyone else a bit sceptical of this? – I have always...