By Mark Jones, director of Carmarthen-based Clay Shaw Butler chartered accountants and business consultants.
 
From April 2019, the National Assembly for Wales will be able to vary the rates of income tax payable by Welsh taxpayers.
Responsibility for many aspects of income tax will

By Mark Jones, director of Carmarthen-based Clay Shaw Butler chartered accountants and business consultants.
 
The taxman at HMRC has issued a warning to taxpayers regarding the latest tax refund scams.
These scams are targeting individuals via email and SMS messages.
HMRC is currently processing

By Mark Jones, director of Carmarthen-based Clay Shaw Butler chartered accountants and business consultants.
 
Electric and hybrid ‘plug-in’ vehicles are very much in the news nowadays, with some towns and cities having long term aims to make their areas ‘diesel and petrol free’.
As

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By Mark Jones, director of Carmarthen-based Clay Shaw Butler chartered accountants and business consultants.
 
There’s some important deadline news for you this week about benefits and expenses provided to employees and directors.
The forms P11D, which report details of benefits

By Mark Jones, director of Carmarthen-based Clay Shaw Butler chartered accountants and business consultants.
Over the coming years, the government plans to phase in its landmark Making Tax Digital (MTD) initiative, which will see taxpayers move to a fully digital tax system.
However, HMRC has

By Mark Jones, director of Carmarthen-based Clay Shaw Butler chartered accountants and business consultants.
The regulations to bring into force Making Tax Digital for VAT (MTDfV) are now law, and digital VAT returns will be required from 1 April 2019.
MTDfV is the