Rishi Sunak has today announced a change in the winter support schemes. The government have announced a raft of new financial measures to help support businesses through the pandemic. To read these changes in detail please visit our coronavirus business support hub. Just when you thought it could not get worse, [...]
Increasingly, employers are asking employees to work from home. However, this comes with additional household costs for them. Nevertheless, there is tax relief available. The additional costs your employees can claim for include heating, water bills, business calls or even broadband connection. How much can you claim: Employees can claim a [...]
If you are a landlord, second homeowner or a holiday homeowner and you sell your property at a gain, you have just 30 calendar days to inform HMRC and make a Capital Gains Tax (CGT) payment. If you fail to meet this deadline you will be subject to a £100 fine which [...]
Covid: Two-week circuit breaker 'may halve deaths', report says A two-week lockdown could be on the cards from the 24th of October, reports suggest. With the three-tier system in place only this week, scientist are warning that this is not enough to help reduce the spread of COVID. The 'Circuit breaker' [...]
How different circumstances affect the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme The Self-Employment Income Support Scheme, which has been running over the past few months has been extended to include a second grant .You can claim for the second grant even if you did not claim for the first. You have until the [...]
When you have a home-based business, it can be difficult to have a clear separation between work and home. The ability and temptation to pop into the office, whatever time of the day or night is always there. But it also brings many benefits – it’s about getting the balance right. [...]
Thousands of UK firms may need to set up an EU office Both EU and UK law will require companies to ‘have a door to knock on ‘. It Is suggested that it will be vital for companies that trade in the EU will need a presence in the EU or [...]
Last week Rishi Sunak announced the Job Support Scheme to replace the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS). Hundreds of thousands of workers remain on Furlough and are reliant on these government payments. However, in October the CJRS payments reduce to 60% of the employee’s wages, up to £1875, with the employee [...]
With the pre-empted ‘second wave’ seemingly upon us, Rishi Sunak today announced the governments ‘Winter Economy Plan’ to help businesses cope with the new restrictions, as the recovery is put on hold for the winter it would seem. Who knows what further restrictions we will face, so this proactive approach should [...]
Growing businesses need people. You only have 1 pair of hands and unless you want to spend all of your time bogged down in admin and firefighting problems, you will need people (whether employees or subcontractors) to do all of the things that you either do not have time to do or [...]
