Trading online
High Street retailers will have watched with dismay as competitors take their market share – not by businesses in their local business community – but globally, as
Tax and accounts
If you are self-employed, as a sole trader or in partnership, the profits from your business are treated as part of your income for Income Tax and self-employed National Insurance
No news is bad news
There is a well-worn cliché that says that no news is good news i.e. that bad news actually travels faster than good news.
During the coronavirus period, we have been
Office of Tax Simplification
Practitioners may have noticed that the OTS has recently published an update on its thoughts for the update of Corporation Tax, the taxation of personal service companies and the
What if?
Any planned change will be targeted at a specific issue – say, reduce sales prices to win more customers and increase footfall – but actions of this kind have knock-on
Winter lock-down?
We have made passing references to business planning in recent articles published to this newsfeed; about the need to secure and plan your bank resources to better cope with the
Job Retention Bonus
One of the measures announced by the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak in his recent Summer Statement was the introduction of the Job Retention Bonus. This bonus is designed to encourage
Summer Statement
The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak continued with his campaign to support the business and jobs community today, 8 July 2020, as firms engage with the disruption caused by the coronavirus
SEISS further update
HM Treasury has published a further Treasury Direction made under the Coronavirus Act 2020, ss. 71 and 76, which modifies and extends the effect of the Self-Employment Income
The new reality
It may be some time before we could state with some certainty that it was back to business as usual; usual being the business environment before the arrival of Coronavirus.
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