Time to check your Gift Aid donations?
Charities will lose out as basic rate tax falls from 22% to 20%

Change to 20% basic rate shrinks your pension fund
The basic tax rate cut means that the government is giving you less top-up on your pension payments

National Minimum Wage from October 2008
BERR has confirmed that the main rate will rise to £5.73 from October 2008

Less time to complete your paper tax return!
HMRC are imposing a 31 October deadline for paper returns starting with the current year.

CO2 emissions basis for VAT fuel scale charge
There has been a major change to the basis of the VAT vehicle private use charge.