The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has announced the national minimum wage rates from 1 October 2011:
These rates apply to all journeys on or after 1 September 2011 until further notice
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If you are already running a business, it will establish the records you need to keep and then ask you a series of questions about what records you currently keep and how you maintain them, before giving you feedback and advice on any improvements you may need to make. This option may take between five and ten minutes to answer all questions depending on the size and nature of your business.
HMRC inspectors will visit to check business record.
Following a consultation exercise, HMRC has started a test and learn project to pilot business records checks for SME businesses across the country. Apparently, eight HMRC offices are taking part with up to 1,200 businesses being approached about a meeting at their premises to check their current year records. The exercise will be rolled out fully in autumn 2011 with up to 50,000 SMEs checked annually and over a four-year period: HMRC expects to
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HMRC is setting up ten new ‘task forces’ to focus on restaurants in London, then in Scotland and the North West. The other teams will target evasion ‘in specific high risk trade sectors and locations across the UK’ as part of HMRC effort to raise an additional £7bn in revenue each year by 2014/15. Further teams are to be launched in 2012/13, so it seems that these will be ongoing projects.
Without further details, this appears to be an extension of HMRC’s
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