The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme has gone live this morning and it seems that it was another busy Friday evening down at the HMRC, with a flurry of new and only slightly (but importantly) contradictory guidance issued by the government in anticipation of the Scheme’s going live today.
Here’s a short summary of the latest developments - just in time, using the phrase charitably, for employers submitting their first claim to the Scheme this week.