News
HMRC takes new steps to tackle online VAT fraud
10 April 2018
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has been granted new powers to help combat online VAT fraud conducted on digital marketplaces. Originally outlined by the Chancellor in the 2017 Autumn Budget, the new powers – known by the term ‘joint-and-several liability...
Read more...
Quarterly digital reporting to HM Revenue & Customs opens to self-employed individuals
10 April 2018
Since March this year, self-employed individuals have had the option of reporting their income digitally to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) as part of a pilot of the Government’s Making Tax Digital (MTD) programme.
Read more...
Late payments in the spotlight after Carillion collapse
10 April 2018
Small businesses in the UK have long been scourged by late payments, but the problem was brought into sharp focus earlier this year following the collapse of construction giant, Carillion, emphasising the importance of careful credit control.
Read more...
Millions of people have not checked their online tax accounts for errors
10 April 2018
Millions of people from across the UK could be paying more tax than they need to, it has emerged, after figures from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) showed that more than 15 million individuals have not checked their Personal Tax Accounts.
Read more...
Spring Statement 2018
13 March 2018
By the time Chancellor Philip Hammond rose to his feet in the House of Commons to deliver the first Spring Statement, he had already offered plenty of hints that this would be a low-key affair.
Read more...
Are you ready for the latest minimum wage rise?
07 February 2018
On 1 April 2018, the National Minimum Wage (NMW) and National Living Wage (NLW) will increase for all age groups.
Read more...
HMRC offers practical support to businesses affected by Carillion’s collapse
07 February 2018
The start of 2018 saw the somewhat unexpected collapse of one of the UK’s largest construction and contracting businesses, Carillion.
Read more...
Excuses, excuses: HMRC reveals top late tax return apologies
07 February 2018
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has once again revealed the worst excuses that taxpayers have given them for failing to meet the 31 January Self-Assessment (SA) deadline.
Read more...
Ban on passing credit card fees on to consumers hits small businesses in the pocket
07 February 2018
A ban on passing on charges from credit card providers to consumers, which came into effect last month, is hitting small businesses in the pocket.
Read more...
Millennials set for ‘inheritance boom’… but not until the 2030s
07 February 2018
A new report from think-tank, the Resolution Foundation, predicts that so-called ‘millennials’, those aged between 17 and 35, will receive the biggest inheritance of any post-war generation from their baby boomer parents and grandparents.
Read more...
Case Studies
-
Smiles all round for dental practice
-
A taste for growth, a thirst for knowledge
-
A modern approach required for music moguls
-
Child's play with proactive accounts management
-
Cut above the rest in personal management style
-
Taxing demands with old school charm
-
A shared passion for architecture and a head for numbers
-
Sometimes a business does exactly as it says on the tin
-
Customer care is top of the list for packaging business