Restaurants extend Eat Out To Help Out into September The eat out to help scheme has served up 64 million discounted meals in the first three weeks alone. The Eat out to Help out has proved so popular – offering 50% discounts on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays – it has prompted [...]
The Second Grant For Self Employed is Available From Monday the second and Final grant became available for the self-employed. Anyone who is self-employed and has been adversely affected can claim. Adversely affected is typically when your business has experienced lower income or higher costs due to coronavirus. HMRC expects you [...]
Further Lockdown Restrictions Eased From tomorrow the following lockdown restrictions have been eased: Under the latest changes: Indoor theatre, music and performance venues will be able to reopen with socially distanced audiences Wedding receptions in the form of a sit-down meal for up to 30 guests will be permitted The piloting [...]
Furloughed employees to receive full redundancy payments Legislation that comes into effect today has been passed to ensure that Furloughed Workers receive their full entitlement if they are made reductant. Furloughed employees who are then made redundant will receive redundancy pay based on their normal wage, under new laws. Business Secretary [...]
Making Tax Digital Making Tax Digital (MTD) is the electronic filing of tax information to HMRC, and there have been some important dates announced this week. Read our blog on this matter here: Making Tax Digital – Important dates announced. Don’t forget you can defer your Payment on Account HMRC have [...]
We are back! As you know we've been keeping you in the loop with the COVID business updates for over four months!We are continuing to do this through email, our Facebook group and this weekly news round-up which will include both COVID business updates and general business updates so keep an [...]
What are the various parties Taxation Policies? With an upcoming election seemingly now inevitable each party are making pledges around Taxation – we look at what these are likely to be. Conservatives The Conservatives promise Investment in an “infrastructure revolution” with money for broadband, roads, the NHS, schools and police. Corporation [...]
"We are are so pleased that this measure has been kicked down the road more change at this time of uncertainty is not what we need" was a recent comment from one of our clients in the construction industry. We can't disagree, finally some common sense from HMRC who under pressure from the [...]
To celebrate International Coffee Day, we went to see our Clients Julie and Tania at The Cavendish Coffee shop in Bearsted. The Cavendish not only serves excellent coffee but also amazing food. I am sure you will agree there’s nothing better than having a fresh cup of coffee on a cold morning, but now [...]
As reported by the BBC this weekend, the number of hoax calls from people saying they are HMRC has hit 60,000 up to January 2019. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47422903 These calls sound convincing and can be very stressful as a client of ours found out recently. “They sounded so convincing, quoted a warrant number and said [...]
