[UPDATE: With the Prime Ministers announcement for a 2nd lockdown, starting Thursday 4th November, the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (Furlough scheme) has been extended. The statement from the HM Treasury and the Chancellor also confirmed that the Job Support Scheme (JSS) which had been due to launch on 1 November, will not start until the […]
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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 […]
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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.
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In his Summer Budget last July, George Osborne announced new restrictions on tax relief for buy-to-let investors that will make it much harder for those in low-rental yield areas to turn a profit. What are the changes? Wear and Tear Allowance – The first change to come into affect is the abolition of the Wear […]
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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.
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As announced by George Osbourne in 2013, non-UK residents will have to pay capital gains tax on their sales of UK residential property from April 2015.
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