News Archive 2003

15 December

Business by Telephone (PDF 71K)
An update for agents about our telephone service

17 November

Register of Issues
6.3 New Tax Credits: TC700 and TC701 notices
1.33 Self Assessment: Notifying taxpayers of removal from SA

30 October

Employer Guidance - Planning for PAYE Online Filing
Over three weeks from 1 November, we will be sending a letter to around one and a quarter million employers, explaining how online filing affects them.

23 October

Working Together issue 14
This publication is now available in the HTML format.

22 October

Self Assessment Tax Calculations
We would like to draw your attention to two problems we have experienced with the issue of some SA Tax Calculations (form SA302) and their agent copies.

29 September

Issue 14 of Working Together Publication
Please note that in the paper version of Working Together, the Helpdesk telephone number has been misquoted in the article on page 9, Viewing Clients' Statements of Account over the Internet. The number should read 0845 60 55 999.

26 September

Issue 14 of the Working Together Publication is now available

9 September

New Tax Credits - Q&As
We have prepared a series of Question and Answer documents to cover your most frequently asked questions about New Tax Credits.

2 September

Agents telephoning Taxes Contact Centres

Further to the What's New entry for 18 August showing three new speed dialling numbers for agents, some more offices (in Cambridgeshire Area and Lincolnshire Area) are now connected to the Leicester Contact Centre.

18 August

Agents telephoning Taxes Contact Centres
We are pleased to offer three further speed dialling numbers for agents telephoning our Taxes Contact Centres (see Working Together issue 11 for details of the other Taxes Contact Centres and telephone numbers).

30 June

Viewing Clients' Statements of Account over the Internet
In Working Together issue 13 we published an article on viewing clients' Statements of Account over the Internet. Many agents have contacted us to ask how they can access the Agent Internet Service for Self Assessment.

12 June 2003

Issue 13 of the Working Together Publication is now available.

15 May 2003

Register of Issues
We have substantially updated the Register of Issues. For ease of reference, we have shown 'amended' against those issues updated. We have archived the cleared issues, giving you the facility to view either live or archived items within each of the 14 subject categories.

Although the existing Register will still be available, we intend to launch a new look Register soon. We will tell you when this has been launched on our What's New and the Revenue What's new page.

16 April 2003

New Tax Credits - Here is the first edition of Questions and Answers document for agents
This covers some of the more basic questions that you have raised. Further editions will be published over the coming weeks and months to cover more complex questions (e.g. treatment of losses, farmers' averaging adjustments and other definition of income issues, interaction with tax enquiries and more on appeals, etc) and we will feature more on new tax credits in the quarterly Working Together publication.

27 March 2003

Pensions Simplication
If you have not yet had a chance to look at and comment on the Inland Revenue Consultation document "Simplifying the taxation of pension: increasing choice and flexibility for all", you can still do so if you want to by 11 April 03.

20 March 2003

SA Tax Return Guides - Feedback Please
We told you in issue 12 of Working Together that the SA Tax Return Guide for individuals, SA Partnership Tax Return Guide and SA Trust and Estate Tax Return Guides for 2002/03 were being issued to agents with more than 5 clients on the SA database. We began issuing these guides on 17 March.

17 March 2003

2001/2002 Self Assessment Return First Fixed Late-Filing Penalty
First Fixed Late-Filing penalty notices are currently being issued for 2001/2002 where our records show that completed Self Assessment Tax Returns were not received on time.

14 March 2003

New Tax Credits - an update
This is an update of the article on New Tax Credits which appeared in Working Together, issue 12. Regulations are changing from April which affect the type of changes to personal circumstances which need to be reported to the Revenue.

10 March 2003
A - Z List of Articles Within "Working Together"
The list has been amended to include articles from Issue 12.

04 March 2003
Working Together Publication issue 12
Issue 12 of Working Together is now available.

28 February 2003
Small Earnings Exception - Certificate Renewal Exercise.
You may have a number of clients whose earnings have been below the Small Earnings Exception Limit for some time. Their small earnings certificates may be due to expire this year. The National Insurance Contributions Office (NICO) has begun the automatic exercise to renew these certificates. Click for more information about this year's exercise.

10 February 2003
Working Together - South Wales Area
Agents are invited to the South Wales Area annual Working Together meeting at the Village Hotel and Leisure Club, Coryton, Cardiff on Tuesday 4 March 2003.

28 January 2003
Faxed Forms 64-8 - We have received a number of enquiries concerning the Revenue's refusal to accept faxed forms 64-8.

14 January 2003
Statutory Clearances - "One Stop Shop" NOT CURRENT - an important reminder for agents about paper applications