New lockdown grants to support businesses
Businesses in the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors are to receive a one-off top-up grant worth up to £9000 to help them through to the Spring, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced.
The latest announcement comes in addition to £1.1 billion further discretionary grant funding for local authorities, Local Restriction Support Grants worth up to £3000 a month and extension of the furlough scheme.
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Self assessment deadline - 31 January 2021
Each year, around 11m people complete a self assessment tax return. You can complete your 2019-20 tax return at any time up to the deadline but HMRC recommends (and we agree) completing it early to allow time to pay the tax bill or set up a payment plan.
You must complete a self assessment return if you:
- have earned more than £2,500 from renting out property;
- have received, or their partner has received, Child Benefit and either of them had an annual income of more than £50,000;
- have received more than £2,500 in other untaxed income, for example from tips or commission;
- are a self-employed sole trader whose annual turnover is over £1,000;
- are an employee claiming expenses in excess of £2,500;
- have an annual income of over £100,000; or
- have earned income from abroad that they need to pay tax on.
HMRC’s interim director general of customer services Karl Khan said: ‘HMRC is determined to help people during this difficult time. We know many will have been adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic, or will need help to spread the cost of their tax bill.
‘That’s why we’ve made it quick and simple to set up a payment plan to spread the costs and help people get back on their feet. It’s easy to do online and there’s no need to call us to set it up.’
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