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VAT

VAT on International Transactions

As the internet makes it increasingly easy to buy and sell goods and services abroad, overseas transactions are becoming commonplace for many of our small business clients. Here we look at how to deal with these transactions from the perspective of UK VAT.

Kieran Burge November 13, 2023

Small Business

ICO Data Protection Fee – Do I Need to Pay?

We often get asked by clients what is the ICO Data Protection Fee and if they must pay. Given the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) push to engage all registered companies to comply with the Data Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), it’s an unavoidable issue. In general, any business handling personal […]

Small Business

Avoid Non-sterling Transaction Fees [Case Study]

Everyone appreciates being able to save their business money and reduce unnecessary expenditure. One area of your business that you can focus on to quickly and easily save money is to reduce bank fees. Specifically, if you can avoid non-sterling transaction fees you’d typically get charged for your foreign currency payments. What is a […]

Small Business

Changes to the Taxation of Dividends: Trading as a Sole Trader or a Company

The surprise announcement by George Osborne in his Summer Budget in July was his reform of the taxation of dividends that is scheduled to come into effect from 5 April 2016.