Pension Changes If you have an auto-enrolment pension scheme set up and are deducting pensions already then, the amount of pension contributions you will deduct and contribute for and behalf of your employees is changing. The minimum contribution you must make increases from the current minimum of a total contribution of 2% of qualifying earnings [...]
Accsys Guide To - What Records To Keep (& for how long) Our latest mission is to help all our clients get organised for 2018. As a part of this, we are encouraging clients to go paperless or at least less paper. See our blog last year There are no filing cabinets in [...]
Back in 2015 George Osbourne announced a change to dividends tax rate that effectively increased the tax burden on small business owners. The effects of this were not felt immediately so the change probably passed many by. It is only now that many business owners are receiving their 2016/17 tax returns that the full effect [...]
Often the reason people change accountants is because of a lack of support – either perceived or real – being supported by your accountant is important. We take for granted the support we give our clients because its all part of the service, but we are often astounded by the lack of support clients [...]
Once you have dealt with the basics there are very few ways to save Corporation Tax. Tax saving tips are often about being super organised with what you claim and making sure you get the basics correct. With this in mind here are some of the basics you should be looking out for: Claim Business [...]
Proudly supporting the community – Music on the Green 2017 Once again we are proudly supporting Music on The Green, by donating our time to help with their Accounting and Bookkeeping. Whats more this year we will also be attending the event to help behind the scenes. Not only do we have the opportunity to [...]
Dedication Communication is what you need… My son is currently obsessed with the Guinness book of records. Every day when I get home, he reads me a new record that he wants us to attempt to break … Such as: Fastest time to wrap a person in newspaper Fastest balloons burst by sitting in [...]
If you are stuck doing manual repetitious data entry in your business then you are probably wasting time. Time is your most precious commodity and it’s a crime to be wasting it. If you have data in your business than you manually collect on paper and then input into spreadsheets or software then there [...]
Recently, on my way home from a client, stuck in traffic, trying to escape the business estate where they are located, I gazed through the office windows and I happened to notice how many filing cabinets there were. Filing Cabinets, just sitting there, all inconspicuous, taking up valuable room and representing how things used [...]
If you have a large volume of stripe payments to reconcile in Xero it can be a bit of a pain. Xero uses bank feeds to automatically import payments made from stripe but these appear in Xero net of the stripe fees payable. This means you have to gross them up to get back [...]
