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• HMRC CIVIL DISORDER HELPLINE
  HMRC have announced a new helpline - 0845 366 1207- to assist businesses and individuals adversely affected by the recent civil disorder. According to the press release: ‘The dedicated Civil Disorder helpline is available to provide comprehensive advice and deal sympathetically with problems currently faced by businesses and individuals............read more
• PENSIONS ONLINE INTERACTIVE TOOLS
  The Pensions Regulator has launched an online tool designed to help smaller businesses get to grips with their employer duties under the new laws, which start in 2012. The tools cover issues such as.............read more
• ‘GHOST’ PLUMBERS ARRESTED IN TAX RAIDS
  HMRC have announced that five plumbers have been arrested and approximately 600 are under civil investigation by HMRC for failing to pay the right amount of tax. The arrests and investigations have taken place as part of a campaign targeting plumbers which invited them to put their tax affairs in order...........read more
• AUTOCLENZ STATUS CASE
  A Supreme Court judgement has found that workers engaged as car valeters by Autoclenz were in fact employees and not self-employed as Autoclenz had contended. The case was brought by a group of car valeters engaged by Autoclenz in an attempt to show that they were employees. Autoclenz claimed that a substitution clause in the workers contracts.........read more
• CLOSURE OF HMRC'S OLD BANK ACCOUNTS
  Business Link is reminding businesses that HMRC Bank of England accounts closed with effect from 9 August 2011. They are also warning that where businesses use these account details the payments will no longer be accepted. This may result in interest charges if the payment is not received by HMRC by the agreed payment date..........read more
• DATA PROTECTION BREACH
  The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has ruled that cosmetics retailer Lush breached the Data Protection Act after the security of its website was compromised. The breach, which happened between October 2010 and January 2011, meant that hackers could access the payment details of 5,000 customers..........read more
• HMRC UPDATE ADVICE ON DELAYED STATEMENTS
  HMRC have updated their guidance to those taxpayers who did not receive their Self Assessment statements on time. As previously advised, HMRC have had more Self Assessment statements than usual to issue this year. Normally these are all issued in July, but this year some are being issued in August...........read more
• ENTERPRISE ZONES
  The government has announced 11 new Enterprise Zones as part of the government’s ‘Plan for Growth’. The government had previously announced 11 Enterprise Zones in some of the country’s largest cities, including Manchester, Birmingham, Merseyside and Newcastle and had invited applications for 10 more in other areas..........read more

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