We now have only two weeks to go until Alistair Darling, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, will deliver his first budget report on Wednesday 12 March 2008.
It will certainly be an interesting first budget report, here we have a Chancellor who has thus far shown he does not understand business nor taxation for that […]
This has to be the one thing every small business owner has in common, they want more business, they need more business, they can handle more business, just how do they go about finding it?
Well, if this is you and your asking yourself how do you find it then you are half way there, at […]
HMRC have now started to write to people who own UK property that they do not appear to live in, and who are not declaring any rental income.
If this is you and you have recently received a letter from HMRC I would urge you to not ignore it.
If you have not received a letter, and […]
I know this is a strange posting for me to make, but it is prompted by a recent article by Kristen Fischer on Freelance Switch.
Kirsten covers the basics in this posting, such as sort your receipts, compile forms and believe it or not get an accountant.
So this got me thinking, do accountants do enough to […]
Liz I am not convinced?
After reading a recent posting on the Successful and outstanding Blog(gers) site of Liz Strauss I decided to take the (silly) what colour is your mind test, and I got blue?
Your Mind is Blue
Of all the mind types, yours […]
Further to my recent posting concerning retrospective VAT claims, HMRC have now issued Business Brief 07/08 inviting businesses to submit claims for both input tax accrued before 1 May 1997 and also output tax claims for accounting periods prior to 4 December 1996.
My top tip, don’t delay in making your claim.
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If you are like many of our entrepreneurial clients who are bootstrapping their early years businesses then you won’t have any staff and the only one on the payroll is yourself, yet you still have to comply with the red tape of informing HM Revenue & Customs every month or quarter that your PAYE/NIC is […]
I know I have been quiet lately this is because we have been adding more functionality to our website. The latest service we have brought online for clients is our secure online client file store.
This secure online file store will enable clients to pass information to us in a secure manner, it will also […]
For the early years business, or the business that is a start-up, there are so many things to think about and even more to know.
This having to know it all is a reason so many don’t know which way to turn, there are a lot of different government funded organisations out there offering support […]
There is a saying:
Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity and cash flow is reality
This saying is true, and never more so than now, with the credit crunch, inflation rising and the doom and gloom mongers out there dispensing their ‘a recession is nigh’ rhetoric, now is the time to get control over your finances and […]
