The application date for the Bounce Back Loan Scheme (BBLS) has now been extended to 30 November, and the loan repayment process made more flexible. To date, the BBLS has provided more than a million loans between £2,000 and £50,000 to businesses affected by the...

After heavy hinting from the Treasury for some weeks, the expected Autumn Budget has been pushed into spring 2021, with tax rises on the cards. Since the March Budget and through to August, the expectation was that the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, would introduce his...

The latest pandemic support measures are much less generous than before. Even though the Chancellor cancelled this year’s Autumn Budget, he still made an early autumn appearance before the House of Commons to announce his ‘Winter Economy Plan’. He announced new...

Given the amount of Covid-19 financial assistance available, it comes as no surprise that there is an increase in HMRC-related scams this year. What is worrying is that scammers have become more sophisticated; it is no longer a matter of  simply ignoring emails...