Brian Knights

Stuart Mack

12/02/2017

Brian originally trained as an accountant, starting his articles some 35 years ago. After qualifying as a Chartered Tax Adviser, he joined Swindells in 2003 and now specialises in personal tax.

The HMRC app

In recent months, HMRC has been under pressure to reduce wait times on their phone lines and the new HMRC app is hoped to start to relieve the pressure on the phones. Here is a quick summary of what you can achieve with the new app and how to download it.

Charities Act 2022 – changes that came into force on 7 March 2024

The new statutory power that trusts and unincorporated associations can use to make changes to their governing document is now in force.

If using this power, charities will need to get the Commission’s authority to make certain ‘regulated alterations’ in the same way as charitable companies and Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIO).

April downloadable guides

Our monthly downloadable guides for you to tread at your leisure.