Don’t lose your Settled or Pre-settled status

If you have been granted Settled Status (also referred to as Indefinite Leave to Remain), you can spend up to five years in a row outside the UK without losing your status unless you are a Swiss citizen or the family member of a Swiss citizen.

Note that if you’re a Swiss citizen or the family member of a Swiss citizen, you can only spend up to four years in a row outside the UK without losing your Settled Status.

If you spend over this amount of time outside the UK without returning, your Settled Status will lapse. If this does occur and you wish to return to live in the UK, you will need to make a new application under a different route. Please note that the new application will need to meet the Immigration Rules in force at the time and therefore it is possible that some people may not be eligible to apply to return to live in the UK if their settled status lapses.

The Home Office can revoke your status if:

• You commit a serious criminal offence; or
• The Home Office believes that you submitted false information as part of your application.

Pre-Settled Status (also referred to as Limited Leave to Remain) is a temporary status that is valid for five years. If you want to stay in the UK for longer than this, you must apply for Settled Status within that five-year period.

It is possible to spend up to 2 years outside the UK without losing your Pre-Settled Status. However, if, for example, you spend a continuous year and a half out of the UK, though you will retain your Pre-Settled Status, it is unlikely that you will qualify for Settled Status. This is because you will not be able to demonstrate the required ‘continuous residence’ in the UK for at least five years. At present, there is no provision to extend a grant of Pre-Settled Status and so if you are unable to qualify for Settled Status before the expiry of your ‘Pre-Settled Status’, you may have to apply to remain in the UK on another basis.

If you spend more than two years outside the UK, your Pre-Settled Status will lapse. Your pre-settled status can be revoked if you commit a serious criminal offence, or the Home Office believes you submitted false information with your application.

VAT reverse charge for construction services’

The VAT domestic reverse charge for construction services starts on 1 March 2021.

It’sa major change to the way VAT is collected in the construction industry.

The reverse charge will affect you if both:

• you’re registered for VAT
• you supply or receive services under the Construction Industry Scheme (usually known as CIS)

Where the reverse charge applies, the customer pays the VAT due directly to HMRC instead of paying it to their supplier.

When you must use the VAT reverse charge for building and construction services

—You must use the reverse charge for the following services:

• constructing, altering, repairing, extending, demolishing or dismantling buildings or structures (whether permanent or not), including offshore installation services
• constructing, altering, repairing, extending, demolishing of any works forming, or planned to form, part of the land, including (in particular) walls, roadworks, power lines, electronic communications equipment, aircraft runways, railways, inland waterways, docks and harbours, pipelines, reservoirs, water mains, wells, sewers, industrial plant and installations for purposes of land drainage, coast protection or defence
• installing heating, lighting, air-conditioning, ventilation, power supply, drainage, sanitation, water supply or fire protection systems in any building or structure
• internal cleaning of buildings and structures, so far as carried out in the course of their construction, alteration, repair, extension or restoration
• painting or decorating the inside or the external surfaces of any building or structure
• services which form an integral part of, or are part of the preparation or completion of the services described above — including site clearance, earth-moving, excavation, tunnelling and boring, laying of foundations, erection of scaffolding, site restoration, landscaping and the provision of roadways and other access works

When you not use the reverse charge

Do not use the charge for the following services, when supplied on their own:

• drilling for, or extracting, oil or natural gas
• extracting minerals (using underground or surface working) and tunnelling, boring, or construction of underground works, for this purpose
• manufacturing building or engineering components or equipment, materials, plant or machinery, or delivering any of these to site
• manufacturing components for heating, lighting, air-conditioning, ventilation, power supply, drainage, sanitation, water supply or fire protection systems, or delivering any of these to site
• the professional work of architects or surveyors, or of building, engineering, interior or exterior decoration and landscape consultants
• making, installing and repairing art works such as sculptures, murals and other items that are purely artistic signwriting and erecting, installing and repairing signboards and advertisements
• installing seating, blinds and shutters
• installing security systems, including burglar alarms, closed circuit television and public address systems
• Working with private clients

Zero rate VAT

You may not have to charge VAT on some types of work if it meets certain conditions, including:

Building new homes

You may not have to charge VAT on labour or building materials for work you do on a new house or flat.

• building a new house or flat
• work for disabled peoplein their home

·         End users

• For reverse charge purposes consumers and final customers are called end users. They’re businesses, or groups of businesses, that are VAT and Construction Industry Scheme registered but do not make onward supplies of the building and construction services supplied to them.
• The reverse charge does not apply to supplies to end users where the end user tells their supplier or building contractor in writing that they’re an end user.

 Invoices and other VAT documents

Invoices

When supplying a service subject to the domestic reverse charge, suppliers must:

• show all the information required on a VAT invoice
• make a note on the invoice to make it clear that the domestic reverse charge applies and that the customer is required to account for the VAT
• clearly state how much VAT is due under the reverse charge, or the rate of VAT if the VAT amount cannot be shown, but the VAT should not be included in the amount charged to the customer

Please see vat invoice example attached

If you have any questions in regards vat reversal charge, please contact us.

Предупреждения о льготах

Предупреждения о льготах: пенсионеры могут потерять 358 фунтов стерлингов в месяц, если не подадут на Пособие по уходу и посещаемости.

Те, кто претендует или получает государственную пенсию в Англии, могут получить пособие по уходу и посещаемости, если они имеютпроблемы связанные со здоровьем.

Пособие по уходу и посещаемости — это пособие, которое предназначено для оказания помощи и покрывает дополнительные расходы, которые накапливаются в результате заболеваний или инвалидности. В частности, инвалидность должна считаться достаточно серьезной,чтобы потенциально потребовать, чтобы кто-то заботился о них.Как и куда вы потратите пособие – это ваше дело. DWPне требует отчетности от получателя.

Пособие по уходу и  посещаемости выплачивается еженедельно по 2 различным ставкам — тот, который вы получите, зависит от уровня помощи, в которой вы нуждаетесь:

• Частая помощь или постоянное наблюдение в течение дня, или наблюдение ночью£60.00 в неделю
• Помощь или наблюдение в течение дня и ночи, или неизлечимо больны

£89.60 в неделю

Вы можете получить дополнительный пенсионный кредит (PensionCredit), жилищное пособие (Housingbenefit) или снижение муниципального налога (CouncilTax), если вы получите пособие по уходуи посещаемости.

Пособие по уходу и посещаемостине зависит от вашего дохода–то, что вы зарабатываете или сколько у вас есть сбережений, не повлияет на то, что вы получите.

Если Вам нужна помощь в оформлени этого пособия, пожалуйста звоните нам по телефону 07852925419  или пишите по электронной почте info@capital—empire.co.uk