New state pension scheme in place
The State Pension changed on 6 April 2016. If you reach State Pension age on or after that date you’ll get the new State Pension under the new rules. The new State Pension is designed to be simpler...
Directors loan – overdrawn tax treatment
What is an overdrawn directors loan? Quite simply this is when a director has taken more money from the company than they were entitled to take via salary and/or dividends Why does an overdrawn...
Autumn Statement
George Osborne today delivered his first Autumn Statement as Chancellor of a standalone Tory government. But he should be used to this by now as it was his third pronouncement of the year, the first...
Business plan
Around this time of year many of you will be thinking about next year, looking at your results so far this year and wanting to target next year and make it much better than this year. It is the time...
problem staff
Do you have problem staff? I was in a meeting on Monday with a whole bunch of successful entrepreneurs. These, like any entrepreneurs, even successful ones have their ups and downs and a fellow...
Can you trust the numbers you see in your accounts?
A valid Audit Report? Within days of the dramatic arrests of many FIFA officials over the summer, Greg Dyke, the English FA Chairman, was asking many questions himself. Regardless of whether you...
Stock management – getting on top of it….
If you're in retail then you know how important it is to keep on top of your stock management. That’s why we’ve put together a thee tips to consider for maintaining stock accuracy and reducing...
Dividend Allowance – the dividend tax changes
HMRC has issued a factsheet about next year’s dividend tax changes. The Summer Budget announcement of a change to the rules on dividend tax from next April caused many furrowed brows. The situation...
How to Price.
The more you can differentiate your products or services from others the wider the range of possible prices you may be able to charge as the customer has little to compare what you are offering...
Buy-to-let tax crackdown – time to sell up?
Buy to let tax - a landlord surprise Hundreds of thousands of buy to let landlords face additional tax as the implications of Chancellor George Osborne’s tax changes introduced during the Summer...