Business Guides

The last year has been challenging for all of us, let alone business owners who’ve had to claim emergency support and battled hard to stay afloat. Having survived those choppy waters, maybe it’s time to get your business valued as thoughts drift towards an exit...

Inheritance tax was thought to be ripe for reform in last year’s Autumn Budget but, as it happened, it was left untouched for another tax year. What that means is the £325,000 nil-rate band has been in place since 2009, while the 40% standard rate of tax that can...

HMRC WAIVES PENALTIES AGAIN FOR LATE SELF-ASSESSMENT   Anyone who missed last month’s self-assessment deadline has until 28 February 2022 to file their tax returns online before being fined. HMRC said last month that fines would not be enforced on taxpayers who...

Believe it or not, there are more than 4.7 million limited companies registered in the UK, including the 810,316 incorporations that signed up in 2020/21. Only around 2m are actively trading, but the number of new companies formed during the previous tax year was a...

If you’re looking to join the 4.3 million people in the UK who made the jump into self-employment, you might be wondering how to start your new business. Assuming you’ve weighed up the pros and cons involved and decided launching a startup is right for you, one of the...

HMRC ISSUES LAST REMINDER FOR 2020/21 PERSONAL TAX RETURNS. HMRC is reminding taxpayers that the deadline to submit 2020/21 personal tax returns through self-assessment is on or before midnight on 31 January 2022. Some 407,510 startups were created during the 2020/21...

The construction industry remains one of the UK’s key sectors, which also helps to underpin the UK economy, despite experiencing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. In September 2021, construction output grew by 1.3% on the previous month – placing the sector just...

Making Tax Digital for income tax (MTD for ITSA) looks certain to affect sole traders and landlords from April 2024, following the recent news of a one-year delay. This was the latest in a long line of delays and deferrals in the rollout of MTD, which was first...

A new levy on large residential property developers’ profits intends to raise around £2 billion over the next 10 years, starting from next spring. The ‘cladding tax’ will be a 4% tax on developers with company profits of £25 million or more from residential...

As a business owner, you will find that few things in your line of work are as precious as your time – time that would be better spent doing something other than accounting. Many people come to us asking for help with tasks that usually result in time slipping through...