P11D Guide: What Employers Need to Report 2026
Somewhere between “we gave the sales team gym memberships” and “HMRC wants a form about it,” most business owners lose the plot entirely. That’s the P11D for you. Quietly unglamorous, easy to forget, and expensive to get wrong. Did your company hand out anything beyond straight salary this tax year? A car, private medical cover, […]
What Triggers an HMRC Investigation? The Honest Answer Nobody Tells You
Here’s a fact that surprises most people: HMRC opens around 300,000 tax investigations every year, and a fair few of them aren’t triggered by anything you’d ever expect. So, what triggers an HMRC investigation? In short, it’s a mixture of computer algorithms, human tip-offs, random selection, and patterns in your figures that simply don’t add […]
5 Stages of a Tax Investigation and What to Do at Each One
There’s a particular kind of dread that comes with a letter from HMRC. You know the one — stiff envelope, official font, the word “investigation” sitting there on the page like a small explosion. Most people’s first instinct is to either phone someone in a panic or shove the letter in a drawer and pretend […]
