The timing of our two webinars; links towards the foot of this newsletter, couldn’t have been timed better. We’ve just outlined the headlines below together with the links to the full HMRC articles and will go through all of this in more detail this coming Friday.
Furlough Update
Thousands more employees will now be able to receive support through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) after the eligibility date was extended to 19 March 2020, the government announced today (full article can be found here).
Employers can claim for furloughed employees that were employed and on their PAYE payroll on or before 19 March 2020. This means that the employee must have been notified to HMRC through an RTI submission notifying payment in respect of that employee on or before 19 March 2020.
This change makes the scheme more generous while keeping the substantial fraud risks under control and is expected to benefit over 200,000 employees.
HMRC are aiming to have the scheme fully operational next week but anticipate issues and the system crashing when it first goes live.
Update for the Self-Employed
How the figures will be calculated has now been outlined in detail and the breakdown of which can be found here.It will be based on those figures declared on your tax returns covering the 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19 tax years as appropriate.
Any more queries around either of the above, please come along to our webinar on Friday where we will look to answer as many as we can.
COVID 19 Strike Back – Lets hit back and lets hit back hard!
Now that the dust has settled and we should have digested the support there and how we access this; though some finer details are still yet to be clarified, let’s hit back with all of this rather than feel sorry for ourselves and our business. If you don’t, you more than likely won’t have a business to return to.
To start with we are ecstatic that we can now share our co-branded document that has been produced alongside one of our software providers that has a walk-through of how best you can do this. This can be found here.
There is still time to jump onto our second 30 minute LIVE work-out webinar without the spandex this week where we will look at pivoting your business to bounce back (register here) REGISTRATIONS NOW CLOSED.
Following on from this I am opening up the diary for the team for the week commencing 20 April 2020 for you to have a 30 minute one-to-one free session to discuss anything we cover next week in more detail.
Just to stress, now is not the time to stand still, it is the time to strike back!
Further guidance
- Help for the self-employed (to book on click here) REGISTRATIONS NOW CLOSED.
- Furloughing of staff (to book on click here) REGISTRATIONS NOW CLOSED
As a result of this we will be doing two separate 30 minute live webinars this Friday covering the above two areas and will add access to finance to each of them also.
To book on, click either of the respective links above.
Finally – Client Exchange (APRIL ONLY)
Don’t worry we are not exchanging any clients.
During such unprecedented times we are going to support one another and we won’t always be able to do this for free.
We can however help one another out in exchange for goods/services to the value.
In light of this; and only for the remainder of this month as a trial, if you need some assistance but are struggling financially, can you email what you need to enquiries@gtaccountants.com and we will try to see if we can match you up with another customer.
Please note this is not a free advertising tool but instead to help those clients in need so that we can be specific.
If you are looking to advertise, let me know and I will do a separate client-led newsletter with content provided by you so you can advertise your services but by way of a newsletter rather than direct e-mail as I don’t think any of us would appreciate being sold to in the current climate unless we were looking to buy.
