Fairy Tale of New York is playing on the radio, tinsel has appeared on the monitors and our logo has changed. Yes, you guessed it, it’s Christmas time! So, it’s time to wheel out our annual advice for the season of entertaining and celebrating, on what you can and can’t claim against your tax. I …
I would like to say a huge thank you to KMTV for inviting me to join them on the Kent Business show this week. KMTV looked after me and my fellow guest, David McGuire from https://www.diagramafoundation.org.uk/. We felt right at home. I enjoyed discussing all things business from diversity in the workplace to retirement and …
Once of the smaller changes in the Autumn Budget was that you now have 60 Days, instead of the previous 30 days, to report and pay the CGT on capital Gains on residential property disposals. Clearly 30 days was proving too short a time frame for tax payers to meet. If you are a landlord, …
As more and more business moves online, you need an efficient way to contact customers. An online database helps you reach out to your customers at different stages in the purchase cycle, convert searches into sales and build understanding about their behaviour. Where to start? To build an effective database, you need a way to …
Each quarter we attend an update run by Xero where they share the latest news and features. Here is what they ran through in their November update: Contacts New user experience Xero have refreshed the ‘list view’ page in contacts to make it easier to create and manage customer and supplier contact information from the …
Running your own business is a risk, stepping away from a regular pay cheque for the uncertain profits of a business, is a risk. But you can’t stop there, because if you want to grow your business you are going to have to leave your comfort zone time and time again. We quite often hear …
There was a budget yesterday apparently – but you may not have noticed, due to the lack of significant changes that will impact you, our clients, directly. Much of the announcements centred around additional funding being allocated to public services which, I suppose, made a change from the theme of more recent announcements, with furlough, a …
Making Tax Digital (MTD) for income tax will be mandatory from April 2024. Officially, this was postponed due the pandemic and the difficulties faced by businesses because of it. But unofficially, I suspect the pandemic was an opportunity to postpone it due the enormity of the project. MTD Income Tax is a fundamental shift in the …
You can’t open a newspaper or turn on the TV without a story about how we should be thinking more about the environment. With COP26 taking place in Glasgow this month we though we would take a look at how you could make your business more environmentally friendly. When looking at this area we feel …
On my way to the office this morning, I passed 3 petrol stations all with queues of traffic and I couldn’t help thinking back to the last fuel crisis – I think it was a tanker driver strike – and the stress of trying to run a business when you don’t know how you are …
