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First thoughts on the 2023 Autumn Statement

27 November 2023 / Andrew Hubbard
Issue: 4915 / Categories: Comment & Analysis , cash basis , HMRC , Taxation , Business
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Read the small print

Key points

  • Cash basis is to be the default for all sole trader and partnership businesses regardless of size.
  • Implications of cash basis accounting for advisers.
  • On making tax digital quarterly reports will be cumulative and the requirement to submit an end of period statement removed.
  • Proposal to merge research and development tax relief schemes will go ahead.

Readers of Taxation will need little reminding that the most interesting parts of a fiscal statement are often not the headline announcements but the developments hidden away in the small print. That is certainly the case this time round: the media attention might all be on the cuts to National Insurance but I want to consider some of the changes that are most likely to have a material effect on the day-to-day work that readers of the magazine are most like to encounter.

Cash basis

I will start off with...

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