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By JeanieC,Aston , August 13, 2022 in Fred. Olsen Cruise Line

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I have just booked parking for my FO cruise on the 29th August from Liverpool with CPS parking.

We cruised FO from Liverpool in June when we parked at Kings Dock car park before going to the ACC for COVID testing.

It seems now CPS has left Kings Dock and relocated to a secure car park 1.5 miles from the terminal in L5…still with shuttle bus.

Has anyone had recent experience of this move?

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43 minutes ago, JeanieC,Aston said: Hi. I have just booked parking for my FO cruise on the 29th August from Liverpool with CPS parking. We cruised FO from Liverpool in June when we parked at Kings Dock car park before going to the ACC for COVID testing. It seems now CPS has left Kings Dock and relocated to a secure car park 1.5 miles from the terminal in L5…still with shuttle bus. Has anyone had recent experience of this move?  

We are local and I have seen a comment elsewhere saying the ACC is no longer being used for pre covid tests and document checks, so the system has returned to the original one. 

Parking had previously been near the ACC, but a shuttle bus was provided to/from the cruise terminal.  Hence I think you will find the actual parking is in the same place, but of course now you will not need to be transferred to the terminal part way through your embarkation procedures so much the same distance to transfer.

Just realised you said you are to park in Liverpool 5, which is to the north of the cruise terminal, so not the ACC, which is south.  The transfer distance should not be much different.  There may be a big event on at the Arena, or perhaps they have found another car park.

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1 Boundary Street L5 9UD. Which seems to be a timber and building supplies warehouse.

We've just booked S2224 for 5th Sept which doesn't seem to be available to book on the CPS website so will have to call them on Monday.

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1 hour ago, Colin_Cameron said: 1 Boundary Street L5 9UD. Which seems to be a timber and building supplies warehouse.   We've just booked S2224 for 5th Sept which doesn't seem to be available to book on the CPS website so will have to call them on Monday.

As that seems to be the postcode you have been given, it does seem a puzzle.  The company seems to still be in business as well.  It is an area with mainly light industrial units which had been built on a brownfield site (the housing was demolished many years back now).  CPS may have rented a warehouse, (possibly just for some cruises), since the Arena and the pier head area, (where the cruise terminal is situated), often have big events on in the summer and the city is full of tourists looking to park.  There may even be a new build warehouse for car parking purposes, though of course cruising from Liverpool is only seasonal, so perhaps not likely.

If used by CPS, I am sure it will be secure, rather than just an open car park.  P4C use a warehouse in Southampton docks, and take cars to there from the cruise terminals.  We do not need to park for cruises, but if we did, we would use the official car park, rather than some other, cheaper, options that some people mention, and would feel the same if parking in any big city for a period of time.

As you say, perhaps a good idea to check exactly where you will be parking to clarify any confusion, CPS may just be fully booked for your cruise now.

The parking for my cruise wasn’t available on line,I rang and booked it.

Yes it’s out by Everton’s new stadium build,,just across from the Titanic Hotel.

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13 July 2022  

Cruise and Passenger Services (CPS) has expanded its cruise parking operations in Liverpool with the acquisition of a new secure compound for passenger vehicles.

The site adjacent to Liverpool Cruise Terminal (LCT) can accommodate over 100 cars and will enhance the service provided by LCT for passengers boarding cruise ships in the port.

CPS, which previously offered only a bookings service for cruise passenger parking, will now marshal and store vehicles for passengers, transporting them to LCT once they have self-parked. Passengers will also be ferried to pick up their vehicles once they have disembarked.

The improved service will initially be used by passengers from Fred Olsen Line, which is operating its vessel Borealis from LCT throughout 2022.

CPS Cruise Operations Manager Louis Colpitts explained: “The acquisition of the new secure compound will strengthen further CPS’ position as the leading cruise passenger parking provider for cruise operators sailing from UK ports. It will also enhance the facilities and offering provided by LCT as the port continues to develop its cruise business.”

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16 hours ago, JeanieC,Aston said: The parking for my cruise wasn’t available on line,I rang and booked it. Yes it’s out by Everton’s new stadium build,,just across from the Titanic Hotel. Press release found from July.   13 July 2022   Cruise and Passenger Services (CPS) has expanded its cruise parking operations in Liverpool with the acquisition of a new secure compound for passenger vehicles. The site adjacent to Liverpool Cruise Terminal (LCT) can accommodate over 100 cars and will enhance the service provided by LCT for passengers boarding cruise ships in the port. CPS, which previously offered only a bookings service for cruise passenger parking, will now marshal and store vehicles for passengers, transporting them to LCT once they have self-parked. Passengers will also be ferried to pick up their vehicles once they have disembarked. The improved service will initially be used by passengers from Fred Olsen Line, which is operating its vessel Borealis from LCT throughout 2022. CPS Cruise Operations Manager Louis Colpitts explained: “The acquisition of the new secure compound will strengthen further CPS’ position as the leading cruise passenger parking provider for cruise operators sailing from UK ports. It will also enhance the facilities and offering provided by LCT as the port continues to develop its cruise business.”

I have saw mention of the new car park on another site late yesterday.  A poster has put an aerial view of the site which currently appears on Google Earth (and street view) as a bit overgrown.  It is marked as the irregular area bordered by Beer's building suppliers, (as mentioned by Colin_Cameron), and the railway line.  Now in a better condition and with security of course.  Would explain why the postcode is the same as Beer's.

Hope this helps.  As I said not something we will use, but I have been staying at home to hide from the heat for the last few days and may as well make myself useful 🙂

Hope everyone else is coping with the heat.  We are not in the worst temperature areas up here this weekend, (like we were in the previous hot spell when we were just a tad below the hottest temps), but this has been over a number of days so not my th ing at all.

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It's not just last minute bookings - CPS are fully booked for some cruises a month or more in advance. The site they have is clearly way too small and is on a small strip of waste ground between a building supplies warehouse and the railway 2 miles from the   terminal. Fred. Olsen really need to lean on CPS to get this sorted, or find another provider, otherwise people will be put off using Liverpool for cruises.

I have booked CPS parking at Liverpool for next Monday,,do you know the exact street the entrance is in?

35 minutes ago, JeanieC,Aston said: Hi I have booked CPS parking at Liverpool for next Monday,,do you know the exact street the entrance is in? Thanks

In #3 of this thread Colin gave the address and postcode.  As I have since mentioned, the area used for the car park is visible on Google Earth (look at my description of that).

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1 hour ago, tring said:   In #3 of this thread Colin gave the address and postcode.  As I have since mentioned, the area used for the car park is visible on Google Earth (look at my description of that).   Enjoy your cruise,   Barbara    

Hi Barbara.

But in Google maps L5 9UD also covers Shadwell St and Athol St.

My SiL works for Merseyside Police he might look for me.

I could get a taxi but the £15 difference is not worth the hassle,,I’d rather drive myself.

1 hour ago, JeanieC,Aston said: Hi Barbara. But in Google maps L5 9UD also covers Shadwell St and Athol St. My SiL works for Merseyside Police he might look for me. I could get a taxi but the £15 difference is not worth the hassle,,I’d rather drive myself.  

Please look at #3.  As I said the address was given and clearly says 1, Boundary Street.  I suggest you may not have not looked at my post and Google Earth either.  There is only one road which borders the piece of land I described, so any other roads are totally irrelevant.  Postcodes  do cover more than one address, but individual addresses identify the locations in all cases. It  does appear that the address is shared by Beer's building suppliers, which is next door and I suggest that may possibly be because CPS purchased the piece of land from Beers recently.  I do not see that will cause any confusion once you arrive there though as one will be clearly visible from the other.

What information have you been given by CPS?  They are usually quite good at giving instructions and often maps on how to get to their car parks.  A lot of people appear to have used that car park and I have not seen anyone else report having trouble finding it, so unlikely to be anything to worry about.

It may not be that simple @tring .

CPS may be adding to the confusion. The window label for the car says 1 Boundary Street. L5 9UD, but on the back there is a little map with a route marked on it which appears to lead to Darwen Street, where there is also a vacant piece of ground on Google Maps.

edit to add: The directions meanwhile take you to the cruise terminal.

I have looked at Google Earth,I have looked at Google Maps,I have looked at post#3. I have even done street view from The Strand to Beers timber yard.

On street view I can’t see an entry into that waste ground we can all see.

I can see entry into Beers where the CPS car park is.they are on Shadwell St and Athol St.

By asking the simple question where is the entrance and hoped that someone who has used the car park may enlighten me.

I don’t think you have used the car park so you are seeing what I see,so can’t help me.

ps I live 30 mins from the car park so believe me I will have no problem finding it.

Wether I go via the M57 through Bootle,,,down through Islington along St Anne St or through Garson along the Strand down Great Howard St.

Im going down through Otterpool so I see the ship early.

All I’m asking is,,,,,what street do I take a left off Great Howard St to the car park entrance.

Yeh!! Found a gate on Boundary St.just behind the van before the railway bridge.

Notice on the map directions for L5 9UD takes you to Shadwell St.

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1 hour ago, JeanieC,Aston said: Yeh!! Found a gate on Boundary St.just behind the van before the railway bridge. Notice on the map directions for L5 9UD takes you to Shadwell St.  

Glad you have found it somewhere else.  Yes, Google Earth imaging is from when it was a piec e of derilict land, as I had mentioned, so would not show an entrance.  I had seen an aerial view, (posted elsewhere by someone who had used the car park), showing that triangular area developed as a car park, situated between Beers and the railway line.

It does sound like the CPS instructions are quite confusing, indeed probably wrong.  I had seen no mention of that elsewhere and is why I asked about your CPS instructions.

Found carpark OK although One end of Boundry St was closed off the diversion took you down along Great Howard St then a right down side streets to the carpark.

You will see CPS personnel and minibuses waiting to direct you.

It is a pice of waste ground with no line markings and you will be parked nose to tail.

Came off Borealis yesterday and operation to the CPS carpark worked Ok.

Bags taken from cabin straight to carpark.

You will be given tags marked Carpark with group #1 to 7.

Bare in mind if you are first into the car park it’s best if you are in the last group,you will be boxed in.

If you are in the back row against the railway wall there will be probably 5+ rows in front of you to get away first before you can,,,,,,they call group numbers out to disembark from ship.

We we’re in Group 4 and got called at 08:00,,,I was in the second row from the back.

Some alongside me were stuck,I managed to squeeze between 2 cars in front.

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Spring Budget 2024 — Overview of tax legislation and rates (OOTLAR)

Published 6 March 2024

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Introduction

This document sets out the detail of each tax policy measure announced at Spring Budget 2024 and of previously announced measures that will be included in Spring Finance Bill 2024. It is intended for tax practitioners and others with an interest in tax policy changes, especially those who will be involved in consultations both on the policy and on draft legislation.

Spring Budget 2024 will be published on 6 March 2024. The information in the document is set out as follows:

Chapter 1 contains details of all measures that are included in Spring Finance Bill 2024.

Chapter 2 contains details of measures which are part of Spring Budget 2024 but are not in Spring Finance Bill 2024.

Table 1 lists measures in this document without a corresponding announcement in the Budget report.

Annex A provides tables of tax rates and allowances for the tax year 2023 to 2024 and the tax year 2024 to 2025.

Annex B provides a guide to the impact assessments set out in tax information and impact notes.

The government will bring forward a further set of tax administration and maintenance announcements on 18 April 2024. None of these announcements will require legislation in Spring Finance Bill 2024 or have an impact on the government’s finances at this stage.

For an update on previously announced consultations, see the tax policy consultation tracker .

Chapter 1 — Spring Finance Bill 2024

Personal tax, 1.1 income tax charge & rate.

The government will introduce legislation in Spring Finance Bill 2024 to set the charge for income tax, and the corresponding rates, as it does every year.

Spring Finance Bill 2024 will set: 

  • the main rates for 2024 to 2025, which will apply to non-savings, non-dividend income of taxpayers in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland
  • the savings rates for 2024 to 2025, which will apply to savings income of all UK taxpayers
  • the default rates for 2024 to 2025, which will apply to non-savings, non-dividend income of taxpayers who are not subject to the main rates of income tax, Welsh rates of income tax or the Scottish rates of income tax

Income tax rates and thresholds on non-savings, non-dividend income for Scottish taxpayers are set by the Scottish Parliament. The UK rates are reduced by 10 pence in £1 for Welsh taxpayers, and the Welsh rates of income tax for non-savings, non-dividend income are set by the Welsh Parliament and added to the UK rates.

1.2 Starting Rate for Savings Limit

As announced at Spring Budget 2024, the government will introduce legislation in Spring Finance Bill 2024 to retain the 0% band for the starting rate for savings income at its current level of £5,000 for 2024 to 2025. This measure will apply to the whole of the UK.

1.3 Collective money purchase ( CMP ) winding up

The Pension Schemes Act 2021 introduced legislation to allow collective money purchase ( CMP ) pension schemes to operate in the United Kingdom. The government will introduce legislation in Spring Finance Bill 2024 to ensure that the Commissioners of HMRC can accommodate the detailed provisions necessary for the treatment of funds transferred from a CMP scheme in the process of winding up.

Further consequential tax changes will then be made through secondary legislation to authorise payments made during the wind-up process.

The measure will have effect from Royal Assent to Spring Finance Bill 2024.

1.4 Changes to the Capital Gains Tax rate on UK residential property disposals

As announced at Spring Budget 2024, the government will introduce legislation in Spring Finance Bill 2024 to reduce the higher rate of Capital Gains Tax for residential property gains from 28% to 24%. The change will take effect from 6 April 2024. The lower rate will remain at 18% for any gains that fall within an individual’s basic rate band.

The tax information and impact note for this measure provides more information: Capital Gains Tax: changes to the higher rate of tax on residential property .

1.5 High Income Child Benefit Charge threshold

As announced at Spring Budget 2024, the government will introduce legislation in the Spring Finance Bill 2024 to increase the High Income Child Benefit Charge ( HICBC ) adjusted net income starting threshold to £60,000, from the 2024 to 2025 tax year onwards.

The charge will apply at a rate of one per cent of the full Child Benefit award for each £200 of adjusted net income between £60,000 and £80,000, halving the rate at which HICBC is charged. The charge on taxpayers with income above £80,000 will be equal to the full amount of Child Benefit paid.

For new Child Benefit claims made after 6 April 2024, any backdated payment will be treated for HICBC purposes as if the entitlement fell in the 2024 to 2025 tax year if backdating would otherwise create a HICBC liability in the 2023 to 2024 tax year.

This measure will apply to the whole of the United Kingdom.

The tax information and impact note for this measure provides more information: Income Tax: Increasing the High Income Child Benefit Charge threshold .

1.6 Geographical scope of agricultural property relief and woodlands relief from Inheritance Tax

As announced at Spring Budget 2024, the government will introduce legislation at Spring Finance Bill 2024 to restrict the scope of agricultural property relief and woodlands relief to property in the UK. Property located in the European Economic Area (EEA), the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man will be treated the same as other property located outside the UK. The changes will take effect from 6 April 2024.

The tax information and impact note for this measure provides more information: Changes to the geographical scope of agricultural property relief and woodlands relief for Inheritance Tax .

Corporate Tax

1.7 corporation tax rates.

The government will introduce legislation in Spring Finance Bill 2024 to set the charge for Corporation Tax as it does every year, and to maintain the main rate at 25% and the small profits rate at 19%, for the financial year beginning 1 April 2025.

1.8 Additional support for independent film

As announced at Spring Budget 2024, the government will introduce legislation in Spring Finance Bill 2024 to provide additional support for independent films via the Audio-Visual Expenditure Credit.

The Independent Film Tax Credit is aimed at films that have budgets (or total core expenditure) of up to £15 million and that receive a new accreditation from the British Film Institute. The credit rate will be 53% of qualifying expenditure. Qualifying expenditure is capped at a maximum of 80% of a film’s total core expenditure; the most taxable credit a film can receive will be £6.36 million.

The changes will take effect for films that commence principal photography from 1 April 2024 on expenditure incurred from 1 April 2024. Claims may be submitted from 1 April 2025.

The tax information and impact note for this measure provides more information: Corporation Tax: tax relief for independent film productions .

1.9 Permanent extension for higher rates of Theatre Tax Relief, Orchestra Tax Relief, and Museums and Galleries Tax Relief

As announced at Spring Budget 2024, the government will introduce legislation in Spring Finance Bill 2024 for permanent 40%/45% (for non-touring/touring and orchestral productions respectively) headline rates of relief for Theatre Tax Relief, Orchestra Relief, and Museums and Galleries Exhibition Tax Relief. These rates will take effect from 1 April 2025.

The tax information and impact note for this measure provides more information: Corporation Tax: extension to the temporary rates of relief for theatre, orchestra, museum and galleries exhibition tax relief .

1.10 Stamp Duty Land Tax — Multiple Dwellings Relief ( MDR )

As announced at Spring Budget 2024, the government will introduce legislation in Spring Finance Bill 2024 abolishing Multiple Dwellings Relief, a bulk purchase relief in the Stamp Duty Land Tax regime. This change will come into effect for transactions with an effective date on or after 1 June 2024. Transitional rules mean that MDR can still be claimed for contracts which are exchanged on or before 6 March 2024, regardless of when completion takes place. This is subject to various exclusions, for example that there is no variation of the contract after that date.

A response to the 20 November 2021 consultation Stamp Duty Land Tax: mixed-property purchases and Multiple Dwellings Relief is published, as well as the outcome of the external evaluation of MDR , carried out under HMRC’s Tax Relief Evaluation programme .

The tax information and impact note for this measure provides more information: Stamp Duty Land Tax: abolition of Multiple Dwellings Relief .

1.11 Stamp Duty Land Tax — Acquisitions by Registered Social Landlords and Public Bodies

As announced at Spring Budget 2024, the government will introduce legislation in Spring Finance Bill 2024 to amend out of date references and definitions in Stamp Duty Land Tax ( SDLT ) legislation relating to registered social landlords. The government will also introduce legislation to remove public bodies from the SDLT 15% higher rate charge when purchasing residential property with a value of more than £500,000. These changes will take effect from 6 March 2024.

The tax information and impact note for this measure provides more information: Stamp Duty Land Tax: change to rules for acquisitions by registered social landlords and public bodies .

1.12 Stamp Duty Land Tax – First-time Buyers’ Relief: Leases and Nominees

As announced at Spring Budget 2024, the government will introduce legislation in Spring Finance Bill 2024 amending the rules for claiming First-time Buyers’ Relief from Stamp Duty Land Tax.

The changes will mean that individuals who purchase new leases using nominee or bare trust arrangements will be able to claim the relief and ensure that individuals who have used such arrangements in the past are unable to claim the relief on future purchases made in their own name.

The changes will take effect from 6 March 2024. Where contracts are exchanged on or before 6 March 2024, transitional rules may apply subject to conditions.

The tax information and impact note for this measure provides more information: Stamp Duty Land Tax: First-Time Buyers’ Relief .

1.13 Energy Profits Levy – Energy Security Investment Mechanism

As announced at Spring Budget 2024, the government will introduce legislation in Spring Finance Bill 2024 to provide for the Energy Security Investment Mechanism ( ESIM ).   

The detail and application of the ESIM were announced in a Technical Note at Autumn Statement 2023.

The tax information and impact note for this measure provides more information: Energy Profits Levy: Energy Security Investment Mechanism .

1.14 Economic Crime Levy

The Economic Crime (Anti-Money Laundering) Levy was announced at Spring Budget 2020 to raise approximately £100 million per annum to tackle money laundering and deliver economic crime reforms.

Levy receipts for the first period between April 2022 and March 2023 show a shortfall against the levy’s target of raising £100 million per year. The government’s policy objective is to mitigate this shortfall, putting funding for measures to tackle economic crime back on a sustainable footing. 

The government will increase the charge paid by very large businesses with UK revenue greater than £1 billion, and which are regulated for anti-money laundering purposes, under the Economic Crime (Anti-Money Laundering) Levy (the levy). The charge for these entities will rise from £250,000 to £500,000 per annum, from tax year 2024 to 2025 onwards. Amounts are payable following the end of each financial year.

There will be no change to the charge for small entities (which remain exempt), medium entities (which will continue to pay £10,000), or large entities (which will continue to pay £36,000).

The tax information and impact note for this measure provides more information: Economic Crime Levy: increased charges for very large entities .

1.15 Changes to anti-avoidance legislation: Transfer of Assets Abroad Provisions

As announced at Spring Budget 2024, the government will introduce legislation in Spring Finance Bill 2024 so that individuals cannot bypass anti-avoidance legislation, the Transfer of Assets Abroad provisions, by using a company to transfer assets offshore in order to avoid tax. This applies to individuals who are resident in the UK. 

The changes will take effect for income arising to a person abroad from 6 April 2024.

The tax information and impact note for this measure provides more information: Amendments to the transfer of assets abroad provisions .

1.16 Reserved Investor Funds ( RIFs )

As announced at Spring Budget 2024, the government will introduce legislation in Spring Finance Bill 2024 in relation to the Reserved Investor Fund (Contractual Scheme) ( RIF ), including to provide for a power to make detailed tax rules through secondary legislation at a later date.

The government is also publishing the summary of responses to the 2023 consultation on the scope and design of a tax regime for the RIF .

The tax information and impact note for this measure provides more information: Reserved Investor Fund .

Indirect Tax

1.17 vat — bringing trades in carbon credits within the scope of the terminal markets order ( tmo ).

As announced at Spring Budget 2024, the government will introduce legislation in Spring Finance Bill 2024 that underpins the VAT Terminal Markets Order ( TMO ) which will take effect from the date of Royal Assent to Spring Finance Bill 2024. This will allow for further reform, including bringing trades in carbon credits within the scope of the TMO in due course, and forms part of the government’s broader commitment to update the TMO legislation, which was announced at Tax Administration and Maintenance Day 2023.  

A summary of responses to the consultation on reforming the TMO legislation, which was launched in 2023, will be published in due course.

1.18 VAT: DIY Housebuilders Scheme: Power to request evidence

Following digitisation of the DIY Housebuilders Scheme, the government will introduce legislation in Spring Finance Bill 2024 to give HMRC Commissioners additional powers to request further evidential documentation in relation to a DIY housebuilder’s claim. This will assist the Commissioners in validating claims and carrying out compliance checks. 

The power will come into force on the date of Royal Assent to Spring Finance Bill 2024 and will apply to claims made on or after the day the provisions come into force.

The tax information and impact note for this measure provides more information: VAT: DIY Housebuilders Scheme request for evidence .

Tax Administration and Other Measures

1.19 penalty reform — vat credit amendment.

The government will introduce legislation in Spring Finance Bill 2024 to make technical amendments so interest for VAT operates as intended. The legislation corrects the unintentionally narrow scope of the common period rules, and ensures that HMRC’s power to automatically collect overpaid VAT repayment interest applies consistently to all such amounts.

The tax information and impact note on Interest harmonisation and penalties for late submission and late payment of tax provides more information on the VAT interest legislation announced in Spring Budget 2021.

The changes will take effect from 1 January 2023.

Chapter 2 — Measures announced at Spring Budget 2024 but not in Spring Finance Bill 2024

This chapter contains details of other tax measures announced at Spring Budget 2024 but are not in Spring Finance Bill 2024. This includes consultations and measures that will be legislated by secondary legislation and future Finance Bills.

2.1 A reduction in the main rates of Primary Class 1 and Class 4 National Insurance contributions

As announced at Spring Budget 2024, the government will introduce legislation to reduce the main rate of primary Class 1 National Insurance contributions by 2 percentage points from 10% to 8% from 6 April 2024.

For the self-employed, the government will introduce legislation to reduce the main rate of Class 4 National Insurance contributions by 2 percentage points from 8% to 6% from 6 April 2024.

This is in addition to the previously announced reduction in the main rate of Class 4 National Insurance contributions from 9% to 8%, and means that from 6 April 2024 the main rate will reduce from 9% to 6%.

Technical specifications for payroll software companies will be published shortly.

2.2 Class 2 National Insurance contributions — Commitment to Consult

As announced at Spring Budget 2024, the government will consult on how it will deliver Class 2 National Insurance contributions abolition later this year.

At Autumn Statement 2023, the government announced the removal of the requirement to pay Class 2 National Insurance contributions from 6 April 2024 and committed to abolishing Class 2 entirely.

2.3 Replacing Non-UK Domicile tax rules with a residence-based regime

As announced at Spring Budget 2024, the government will abolish the remittance basis of taxation for non-UK domiciled individuals and replace it with a simpler residence-based regime, which will take effect from 6 April 2025. Individuals who opt into the regime will not pay UK tax on foreign income and gains for the first four years of tax residence.

Overseas Workday Relief ( OWR ) will be reformed with eligibility for the relief based on the new regime. OWR will continue to provide Income Tax relief for earnings from duties carried out overseas for the first three years of tax residence with restrictions on remitting these earnings removed.

The government has also announced an intention to move to a residence-based regime for Inheritance Tax, with plans to publish a policy consultation on these changes, followed by draft legislation for a technical legislation, later in the year.

2.4 UK Individual Savings Account ( ISA )

As announced at Spring Budget 2024, the government will introduce a new UK ISA with its own allowance of £5,000 a year. The government will consult on the details at a later date.

2.5 ISAs and Fractional Share Contracts

As announced at Spring Budget 2024, the government is committed to ensuring people have the opportunity to invest in a diverse range of investment types through their ISAs .

As previously announced at Autumn Statement 2023 this includes certain fractional share contracts, and the government is working as quickly as possible to bring forward legislation by the end of the Summer following detailed engagement with industry and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

2.6 Amending Gift Aid legislation due to implications of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill

The Digital Markets, Competition, and Consumers Bill will introduce new protections for consumers who take out subscription contracts.

As announced at Spring Budget 2024, the government will amend existing Gift Aid legislation by Statutory Instrument to ensure that eligible charities which operate subscription models can continue to claim Gift Aid while complying with these new protections.

The intention is that these amendments to the Gift Aid regime will be in place by the time the relevant provisions of the Bill come into force.

2.7 Abolition of the Furnished Holiday Lettings ( FHL ) tax regime

As announced at Spring Budget 2024, the government will abolish the Furnished Holiday Lettings tax regime, eliminating the tax advantage for landlords who let out short-term furnished holiday properties over those who let out residential properties to longer-term tenants. This will take effect from April 2025.

Draft legislation will be published in due course and include an anti-forestalling rule. This will prevent the obtaining of a tax advantage through the use of unconditional contracts to obtain capital gains relief under the current FHL rules. This rule will apply from 6 March 2024.

2.8 Taxation of environmental land management and ecosystem service markets

As announced at Spring Budget 2024, the government will introduce legislation in a future finance bill to extend the scope of agricultural property relief from Inheritance Tax to environmental land management from 6 April 2025 following the consultation in 2023.

Relief will be available for land managed under an environmental agreement with, or on behalf of, the UK government, Devolved Administrations, public bodies, local authorities, or approved responsible bodies. This includes agreements in place on or after 6 March 2024.

The government will also establish a joint working group between HM Treasury, HMRC, and industry representatives to identify solutions that provide clarity on the tax treatment of the production and sale of ecosystem service credits and associated units, where existing law or guidance may not provide sufficient clarity.

2.9 Technical consultation on extending full expensing to leased assets

As announced at Autumn Statement 2023, full expensing and the 50% first-year allowance for special rate assets were made permanent. Expenditure on plant or machinery for leasing is excluded from these allowances.

The government will shortly publish draft legislation for technical consultation to help it consider any potential extension to include plant and machinery for leasing, which is subject to future decision.

2.10 Additional tax relief for expenditure on visual effects

As announced at Autumn Statement 2023, and following a call for evidence, the government will give additional tax relief to visual effects costs in films and high-end TV. Under the Audio-Visual Expenditure Credit, visual effects costs will receive tax credit at a rate of 39%. The 80% cap on qualifying expenditure will also be removed for visual effects costs. The changes will take effect from 1 April 2025. 

A consultation will be published shortly on the types of expenditure that will be within scope of the additional tax relief.

2.11 Energy Profits Levy — One Year Extension

As announced at Spring Budget 2024, the government will extend the end date of the Energy Profits Levy to 31 March 2029.

2.12 Freeport tax reliefs sunset date extension

As announced at Autumn Statement 2023, the government will extend the window to claim the tax reliefs available in Freeport special tax sites from 5 to 10 years. At Spring Budget 2024, the government announced that the sunset date will be extended to:

  • 30 September 2031 for special tax sites in respect of English Freeports
  • 30 September 2034 for special tax sites in respect of Scottish Green Freeports and Welsh Freeports

The government will extend the sunset dates through secondary legislation.

2.13 Amendments to Common Reporting Standard (CRS2)

As announced at Spring Budget 2024, the government is publishing a consultation to seek views on the implementation of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s ( OECD ) amendments to the Common Reporting Standard (CRS2), the international tax transparency regime for the automatic exchange of information on financial accounts.

The consultation also seeks views on two proposed changes to regulations and a potential extension of the CRS to include reporting on UK resident taxpayers by UK financial institutions.

The consultation will close on 29 May 2024.

2.14 Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework ( CARF )

As announced at Spring Budget 2024, the government is publishing a consultation to seek views on the implementation of the OECD ’s Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework ( CARF ), the new international tax transparency regime for the automatic exchange of information on crypto-assets.

The consultation also seeks views on a potential extension of the CARF to include reporting on UK resident taxpayers by UK service providers. The consultation will close on 29 May 2024.

2.15 Administrative change to ease the payment of Inheritance Tax before probate or confirmation

As announced at Spring Budget 2024, the government will relax the Inheritance Tax requirements for ‘grants on credit’. 

From 1 April 2024, personal representatives of estates will no longer need to have sought commercial loans to pay Inheritance Tax before applying to obtain a ‘grant on credit’ from HMRC.

2.16 Guidance on deductibility of training

As announced at Autumn Statement 2023, HMRC has published guidance to provide greater clarity of the tax deductibility of training costs for sole traders and the self-employed.

The guidance clarifies that updating existing skills, maintaining pace with technological advancements, or changes in industry practices, are deductible costs when calculating the taxable profits of a business.

2.17 Vaping Products Duty

As announced at Spring Budget 2024, the government will introduce legislation in a future finance bill to introduce a new duty on vaping products.

The government has published a consultation on the detailed design and implementation of the duty, which will close on 29 May 2024.

Registration for the duty will open on 1 April 2026 with the duty taking effect from 1 October 2026 alongside a proportionate increase in tobacco duties.

The duty will apply to liquids for use in vaping devices and e-cigarettes at the following rates:

  • £1 per 10ml for nicotine free liquids
  • £2 per 10ml for liquid containing nicotine at concentrations between 0.1 to 10.9mg per ml
  • £3 per 10ml for liquids containing nicotine at concentrations 11mg per ml, or above

The government will also make a one-off tobacco duty increase of £2 per 100 cigarettes or 50 grams of tobacco from 1 October 2026.

2.18 Alcohol Duty Uprating

As announced at Spring Budget 2024, the government will freeze alcohol duty from 1 August 2024 until 1 February 2025. This extends the six-month freeze announced at Autumn Statement 2023. There will be no revisions to existing legislation and no new legal provisions will be introduced.

The alcohol duty rates and allowances as introduced on 1 August 2023 are set out at Annex A.

2.19 Closure of the Alcohol Duty Stamps Scheme

As announced at Spring Budget 2024, the government will end the Alcohol Duty Stamp Scheme that applies to many retail containers for spirits, wine and other fermented products following a review by HMRC. 

The government will publish draft legislation later in 2024 for an orderly wind-down of the Scheme.

2.20 VAT Registration Threshold: increase to £90,000

As announced at Spring Budget 2024, secondary legislation will amend the VAT Act 1994 to increase the VAT registration and deregistration thresholds.

The taxable turnover threshold which determines whether a person must be registered for VAT, will be increased from £85,000 to £90,000

The taxable turnover threshold which determines whether a person may apply for deregistration will be increased from £83,000 to £88,000

These changes will be effective from 1 April 2024. 

2.21 Landfill Tax Rates for 2025 to 2026

As announced at the Spring Budget 2024, the government will legislate in a future finance bill to increase the standard and lower rates of Landfill Tax in line with Retail Price Index ( RPI ), adjusted to take account for high inflation in the period 2022 to 2024 and rounded up to the nearest 5 pence.

The change will take effect on and after 1 April 2025. The rates of Landfill Tax from 1 April 2025 are set out in Annex A.

Landfill Tax was devolved to the Scottish Parliament in April 2015 and to the Welsh Assembly in April 2018.

2.22 Landfill Communities Fund 2024 to 2025

The government will set the value of the Landfill Communities Fund for 2024 to 2025 at £30.9 million, with the cap on credits claimed by landfill operators in respect of contributions remaining at 5.3% of their Landfill Tax liability.

2.23 Air Passenger Duty rates ( APD ) 2025-2026

As announced at Spring Budget 2024, the government will legislate in a future finance bill to increase APD rates for 2025 to 2026. The reduced rates for economy passengers will increase in line with forecast RPI , rounded to the nearest pound.

This means that economy, domestic and shortfall rates will remain frozen. The standard and higher rates will also increase by forecast RPI and will also be further adjusted to account for recent high inflation.   

The new rates will apply from 1 April 2025. APD rates are set out in Annex A.

2.24 Fuel Duty main rates

As announced at Spring Budget 2024, the government will introduce legislation by Statutory Instrument to extend the cut in the rates of Fuel Duty introduced at Spring Statement in March 2022, and extended at Spring Budget in March 2023, for a further 12 months.

This will maintain the cut in the rates for heavy oil (diesel and kerosene), unleaded petrol, and light oil by 5 pence per litre, and the proportionate percentage cut (equivalent to 5 pence per litre from the main Fuel Duty rate of 57.95 pence per litre) in other lower rates and the rates for rebated fuels, where practical.

The changes will take effect from 23 March 2024.

The tax information and impact note for this measure provides more information: Fuel Duty: extending the temporary cut in rates to March 2025 .

2.25 Road Fuel Gases Rates

As announced at Spring Budget 2024, following review, the government will maintain the difference between road fuel gas and diesel duty rates until 2032.

2.26 VAT Treatment of Private Hire Vehicles

As announced at Autumn Statement 2023, the government will publish a consultation on the potential implications of the High Court’s ruling in ‘Uber Britannia vs Sefton MBC’ in April 2024.

Tax administration and other measures

2.27 raising standards in the tax advice market: strengthening the regulatory framework and improving registration.

As announced at Spring Budget 2024, the government is today publishing a consultation both on options to strengthen the regulatory framework in the tax advice market, and on requiring tax advisers to register with HMRC if they wish to interact with HMRC on a client’s behalf. The government will also explore making it quicker and easier for tax advisers to register with HMRC.

2.28 Tackling non-compliance in the umbrella company market

As announced at Spring Budget 2024, the government will provide an update on the progress of its work to tackle non-compliance in the umbrella company market shortly.

Table 1 — Measures in this document without a corresponding announcement in the Budget report

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Royal Caribbean cruise employee arrested after hidden camera found in guest bathroom on Symphony of the Seas

A Royal Caribbean cruise employee has been arrested after allegedly setting up hidden cameras inside passenger bathrooms to spy on young girls.

Arvin Joseph Mirasol, 34, a citizen of the Philippines, was arrested Sunday after a guest aboard the Symphony of the Seas cruise ship found a camera in her bathroom on Feb. 25.

The guest, who was staying in a room with her sister and mother, found the hidden camera when she reached under the sink to grab a roll of toilet paper and found the camera "affixed to the counter underneath the sink," the probable cause affidavit said.

She reported the camera to customer services, and ship security responded to the room.

Mirasol, an attendant who services the cabin by cleaning, replacing towels and making the bed, was detained on the ship until it docked at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on March 3.

Once the ship docked, Homeland Security Investigations, Customs and Border Protection and the Broward County Sheriff’s Office were alerted and spoke with security and Mirasol.

His electronics, including his phone, an SD card, camera, and USB stick, were investigated that same day. On the USB stick, law enforcement discovered "numerous videos of naked females undressing" as well as child pornography, the criminal complaint affidavit said. One video showed Mirasol himself installing a camera into a guest room's bathroom. 

Mirasol admitted in a post-Miranda interview to taping a video camera in guests’ bathrooms when he worked as an attendant and said he'd pleasure himself after retrieving the camera and viewing its footage, the affidavit said.

“Mirasol revealed that he has been placing these cameras, in the bathroom since he started working on Symphony of the Seas around December 2023,” the filing said.

He told officers, “I want to control it, but I can’t,” the affidavit said. He said he'd place the cameras in the rooms where there were females 16 years old and older, despite knowing it is illegal to film underage girls.

Mirasol also admitted that while guests were taking a shower, he’d enter the rooms and hide under the bed while recording them naked with his phone, the affidavit said.

Mirasol has charged with six state charges voyeurism in Broward County. In the U.S. District Court of Florida, he was further charged with production and possession of child pornography.

NBC News has reached out to public defender who was appointed to his case.

Royal Caribbean said in a statement: “We have zero tolerance for this unacceptable behavior. We immediately reported this to law enforcement and terminated the crew member, and we will continue to fully cooperate with authorities.”

This article was originally published on NBCNews.com

Royal Caribbean cruise employee arrested after hidden camera found in guest bathroom on Symphony of the Seas

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