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The Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) has published an online survey and call for evidence seeking views on simplifying the taxation of property income.

HMRC has published guidance on a range of administrative and technical issues affecting Plastic Packaging Tax.

21 March 2022 - This roundup sets out the most important changes to HMRC manuals over the past week as curated by our editors.

HMRC has announced that the interest rates for late payments will be revised following the Bank of England’s interest rate rise from 0.50% to 0.75%.

These Regulations extend the income tax exemption for employer-provided or reimbursed coronavirus tests for the 2022–23 tax year.

The Government of Jersey has stated that all forms of tax cooperation with Russia are suspended with immediate effect. The Minister for External Relations and Financial Services, Senator Ian Gorst, stated that Jersey should not be providing the Russian government with information that can be used to increase its tax revenues. This suspension follows from a similar announcement from the UK government on Thursday 17 March 2022.

These Regulations make provision in relation to the zero-rate of secondary National Insurance contributions (NICs) available in freeport tax sites where employees’ time spent at the freeport site is limited due to a protected characteristic.

HMRC has published Agent Update issue 94 (March 2022) providing a round-up of recent developments for tax agents and advisers.

These Regulations amend definitions within tax legislation specific to banks to reflect changes made by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) following the introduction of their new Investment Firm Prudential Regime (IFPR) with effect from 1 January 2022. The Regulations come into force on 5 April 2022.

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HMRC’s Stakeholder Digest (11 March 2022) provides a round-up of the latest news and updates including information on sending humanitarian aid to Ukraine, setting up Self Assessment payment plans by 1 April and Electronic sales suppression (ESS).

These Regulations make provision about the assessment, payment, collection and recovery of the economic crime (anti-money laundering) levy.

14 March 2022 - This roundup sets out the most important changes to HMRC manuals over the past week as curated by our editors.

These Regulations provide the technical requirements needed to allow HMRC to administer the allowance for the Residential Property Developer Tax (RPDT) in relation to groups of companies and joint ventures.

These Regulations implement the new authorisation and supervisory regime for collective money purchase schemes under Part 1 of the Pension Schemes Act 2021.

Botswana joins the Yaoundé Declaration, an African Union initiative for transparency and exchange of information for tax purpose.

These Regulations make provision in consequence of the Tax Credits, Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance Up-rating Regulations, SI 2022/231 which provide for the annual up-rating of Guardian’s Allowance, among other things in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

The Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill received its second reading in the House of Lords on 9 March 2022 and is scheduled to complete remaining Lords stages on 14 March.

These Regulations bring certain derivative contracts entered into on or after 1 April 2022 within the scope of the Loan Relationships and Derivative Contracts (Disregard and Bringing into Account of Profits and Losses) Regulations, SI 2004/3256 and amend the Exchange Gains and Losses (Bringing into Account Gains or Losses) Regulations, SI 2002/1970 to allow certain debits and credits from currency derivative contracts to be left out of account and, in certain circumstances, to be brought back into account for corporation tax purposes.

The OECD has received responses to the consultation on the draft rules for tax base determinations under Pillar One Amount A.