Earlier this week (21 July 2020), The UK government released their corporate report titled “Building a trusted, modern tax administration system” which highlighted the next steps of HMRC’s Making Tax Digital programme while also lauding
2019 saw hundreds of thousands of UK businesses register for HMRC’s “Making Tax Digital” reform that was officially implemented in April last year. But that was the easy part. VAT managers, fasten your seatbelts because it’s going to be a bumpy 2020. Phase 2 is coming…
VAT registered businesses trading above the compulsory registration threshold (currently £85,000) will not be able to use manual records from 1 April 2019. Instead, businesses must use‘functional compatible software’ (digital records) to meet the new requirements.