After listening carefully to the Budget today, we can report on the headline announcements and how they affect you as a business owner. As usual, the detailed nuances will become apparent over the coming days, but this newsletter contains the highlights. This was always going to be a balancing act for Rishi, as [...]
Salary sacrifice is an agreement to reduce an employee’s entitlement to cash pay, usually in return for a non-cash benefit, such as providing the employee with an asset or healthcare. As an employer, you can set up a salary sacrifice arrangement by changing the terms of your employee’s employment contract. Your [...]
For many years, the standard advice from accountants has been for Directors to pay themselves a salary and for shareholders to take dividends. Often in small companies, the Directors and Shareholders are the same people. This approach minimises the tax liability because dividends are taxed, or have been in the past, [...]
Information has been published by HMRC concerning the process for repaying VAT deferred by businesses during the first lockdown. To defer your payments, you will have to opt into the VAT Payment Deferral Scheme when it opens on 23rd February. We, as your agent, cannot opt into the scheme for you. [...]
VAT, or Value Added Tax, is known as a sales tax because it’s added to the sales your business makes. Most businesses can reclaim the VAT they suffer, so VAT is a tax on the consumer or the end user of a product or service. As a business who makes taxable [...]
If you are CIS registered and VAT registered, then from the 1st of March 2021 there will be changes to the way you account for VAT. This blog investigates these changes and what they mean for your business. The changes mean a VAT-registered business, which supplies certain construction services to another [...]
HMRC collected £1.4 billion in fines and penalties in the year to 31st March 2020. These are entirely avoidable penalties for late tax returns, unpaid tax etc. Companies House also collected millions in late filing penalties. To be forewarned is forearmed, so it is good to know the range and scope [...]
One of our most frequently asked questions is “Can I give shares to key employees? And what are the tax implications of this?” Why do you want to do this? The answer is yes you can give your employees shares, but before we investigate how, we should look at your reasoning [...]
I cannot think of a more challenging way of starting a new year than with a total national lockdown. Running a business just got a whole lot harder. That said, we are a nation of entrepreneurs and I know this will not stop us getting out there and doing great business. [...]
Company cars are an easy target for HMRC – people need a car, and they often desire an expensive one! So maybe it’s time to ditch the petrol and diesel and think about going electric…here we help you consider whether an electric car would be more beneficial for you. Traditionally, the [...]
