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Museums and Galleries are being urged to apply for VAT refunds to support opening free of charge as part of plans to boost visitor numbers and give more people access to arts and culture.

HMRC’s Stakeholder Digest (1 September 2022) provides a round-up of recent news.

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

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

HMRC’s Stakeholder Digest (17 August 2022) provides a round-up of recent news including various reminders for 2021–22.

HMRC has published Agent Update issue 99 (August 2022) providing a round-up of recent developments for tax agents and advisers.

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

HMRC has published new factsheet CC/FS72 on corresponding with HMRC by email.

HMRC’s Stakeholder Digest (4 August 2022) provides a round-up of recent news including Legislation Day and HMRC’s annual report and accounts for 2021–22.

HMRC has increased the interest rates for late payments of tax following the Bank of England’s decision on 5 August 2022 to increase the bank base rate from 1.25% to 1.75%.

The Tax Chamber President has released updated guidance on the procedure to be followed when a party to a case wishes to rely on oral evidence given by video or telephone from abroad.

HMRC has updated Notice 700/56 to add a new section on set-off and preferential debts.

HMRC has developed a new VAT Registration Service which will see all new taxpayers automatically signed up for Making Tax Digital for VAT from 1 August 2022.

HMRC’s Stakeholder Digest (20 July 2022) provides a round-up of recent news including Legislation Day and HMRC’s annual report and accounts for 2021–22.

The CIOT has shared an update setting out that HMRC will change the way it carries out VAT assessments for overseas online marketplace traders from September 2022. From September, HMRC will issue assessments to traders in cases where the information held by HMRC indicates that VAT returns are inaccurate, rather than asking for additional information from traders in the first instance. This change will be of interest to marketplace traders, and online marketplace hosts.

HMRC has published Agent Update issue 98 (July 2022) providing a round-up of recent developments for tax agents and advisers.

HMRC and the Treasury have published a number of new consultations and responses, covering various subjects including the UK’s implementation of Pillar 2, the reporting rules for digital platforms, self-assessment notification of liability timings, and improving the way HMRC uses taxpayer data.

Partial exemption special methods are often used in specific sectors and HMRC has worked with representative bodies to produce sector specific partial exemption frameworks. The frameworks are intended to facilitate the agreement of consistent, fair, and reasonable partial exemption special methods. Frameworks are regularly updated and on 19 July 2022 HMRC published an online edition of the framework for NHS bodies, the previous edition having been published as a PDF document.

The Office of Tax Simplification has published a report which analyses the impacts of tax complexity and recommends that the principle of simplification should be embedded in the tax policy making process.

On 20 July 2022, the Treasury published a raft of legislation in draft which will form the basis of Finance Bill 2023.