17 April 2020
- HMRC emails two million eligible businesses login details for furlough portal
- Government extends furlough end date to 30 June at £50bn cost
- Confusion over private school fees and covid-19 lockdown closures
16 April
- Top tips: furlough and the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
- FCA remodels business plan to address coronavirus challenge
- Higher rate child benefit – remember to claim if you’re on furlough with reduced salary
15 April
- Furlough start date extended to 19 March
- Covid-19: what’s the exit strategy? We ask accountants what they think
- More lenders accredited for small business loan scheme
14 April
- HMRC clarifies MTD for VAT deferral reporting process
9 April
- £750m extra funding package for frontline charities working with vulnerable groups
- Bank of England to underwrite government overdraft via Ways and Means facility
- How to register for child benefit for new born babies
8 April
- HMRC launches beta testing for 80% furlough portal, Harra tells MPs
- MTD technical guidance being rewritten for VAT deferral
- Tips and advice: directors’ duties and responsibilities in the age of covid-19
- Government lending schemes create ‘cliff edge’ for business
- Insurers cave in to demand to delay dividend payments
7 April
- Top 10 tips: employee expenses during coronavirus homeworking
- Financial support for Northern Ireland businesses and employers
- Coronavirus large business interruption loan scheme (CLBILS) launched
- 80% rules allow training, volunteering and even second jobs
- Zero hours PAYE employees entitled to 80% furlough scheme
- Coronavirus business interruption loan scheme (CBILS) amended
- Football clubs fight to keep going as grounds remain closed
- British Airways furloughs 30,000 and puts pilots on half time
- Bus services support grant launched
- Public sector contractors given access to 80% furlough scheme
- Electronic signatures and witnessing practicalities when isolating
- FCA consults on three-month loan and credit card payment freeze
- Banks suspend £15bn in dividend payments
- Duties and VAT waived on vital medical imports
- Charity SORP guidance issued
- HMRC clarifies self-assessment tax payment deferral
- Guidance on small business and retail sector grant schemes
- EU Tax Authority tracker monitors cross-border covid-19 VAT changes
- Returning NHS workers targeted by tax avoidance scammers
- Coronavirus Act 2020 allows for HMRC extended powers
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme – government will pay employer NICs
- Limited company directors have limited support under covid-19 measures
- Insolvency rules to be relaxed, initial announcement
- Annual leave rules will allow temporary two-year holiday rollover cycle
- Q&A: Self-employment Income Support Scheme
- Partnerships offered income support
- Contractors ‘fall through cracks’ in support
- Changes to stamp duty payments process on share sales
- Accounting and tax institutes cancel exams
- Self-employed package hints at future tax equity
- HMRC changes coronavirus business helpline number to increase capacity
- Self-employed will receive 80% package financial support
- Chancellor finalising package of financial support for self-employed
- Users of VAT deferral should review direct debits to HMRC
- £3.5bn of dividends slashed
- FTSE audit partner tenure extended
- Regulators issue joint guidance on financial reporting and audit requirements
- Taxpayers urged to weigh up savings withdrawals
- Revised investment reporting standards delayed to September
- Government demand for March beer duty payments ‘disappointing’
- HMRC looking to deploy more staff to business helpline
- Warning on scammers and abuse of government schemes
- Bank card contactless limit increased
- FRC considers delay to audit quality inspections
- Expat US taxpayers can defer federal income tax filing to 15 July
- Business rates holiday extended to estate agents and bingo halls
- Gender pay gap reporting suspended
- ‘Your NHS needs you’ to volunteer
- 80% rule salary payments liable for income tax and NICs
- Q&A: what does UK lockdown mean for employers?
- Non-essential shops closed but not exhaustive list
- Covid Corporate Financing Facility available
- Sick pay to be refunded to small businesses
- Moratorium on evictions by commercial landlords
- Expats and non doms can claim ‘exceptional circumstances’
- Urgent government action needed to support self employed
- UK GDP to drop 2.6% before 2021 recovery
- HMRC cuts interest rate for late/early payments
- Accountancy firms activate agile working as office premises close
- Companies risk breaching banking covenants
- Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme open for applications
- VAT payments deferred for three months
- Six month deferral on self-assessment payments
- FCA implements two-week moratorium on FTSE corporate reporting
- Companies House extends accounts filing deadline
- Businesses rally to support NHS workers
- Online coronavirus isolation notes for absence from work
- Government to take over rail franchises
- Chancellor sets out radical employment support package to protect jobs
- Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme hiked to £5m
- HMRC needs to ramp up covid-19 time to pay guidance
- Bank of England advice on liquidity reporting under IFRS 9
- Rail services cut in response to covid-19
- Chancellor tells MPs business loans effective ‘beginning of next week’
- Bank of England cuts base rate to 0.1%
- Chancellor convenes emergency meeting with business groups and unions
- London’s transport network cut back in face of coronavirus
- Schools to close from Friday
- £330bn ‘unprecedented’ coronavirus emergency fund
- IR35 private sector reforms delayed until 2021 (updated guidance issued 3 Apr 2020)
- Covid-19 sees companies develop AGM contingency plans
- Covid-19 measures pose ‘catastrophic’ challenge for leisure industry
- Regulator offers filing extension for charities affected by covid-19
- Accountants activate covid-19 contingency plans
- FRC advice for auditors and financial reporting