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  • Beware: Nursery Fees Are NOT A Tax Deductible Business Expense

    Beware: Nursery Fees Are NOT A Tax Deductible Business Expense

    That time of the year is here again when the self-assessed tax return appears on everyone’s “To Do” list and we all start digging out those expenses receipts.

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  • Are You Renting? Don’t Get Caught Out By Stamp Duty!

    Are You Renting? Don’t Get Caught Out By Stamp Duty!

    Stamp duty land tax is one of the biggest tax bills many people have to pay, but thankfully we only need to worry about it when we’re buying a property, right? Not necessarily.

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  • The Referendum Results Are In & Our IoD Presentation On Auto Enrolment

    The Referendum Results Are In & Our IoD Presentation On Auto Enrolment

    So we are to leave the EU. This news has been followed by the resignation of David Cameron as Prime Minister. Today we delivered a presentation to members of the Institute of Directors on Auto-Enrolment, but it is important to acknowledge the elephant in the room; the UK’s future lies outside the EU.

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  • Jon Joins The Black And White Accounting Team

    Jon Joins The Black And White Accounting Team

    We are delighted to announce Jon Mills as the new Director at Black and White Accounting. Bringing with him more than 15 years’ accounting and tax experience with him, Jon has worked in small practices as well as for the Big Four UK accountancy firms.

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  • How To Find A Great Accountant

    How To Find A Great Accountant

    You may think this article a little disingenuous, would you find an impartial post about finding an accountant on an accountancy company’s website? Well, I hope so. Because ultimately our job as accountants is to do the best for our clients, and therefore giving independent advice is essential.

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  • 5 Common Accounting Mistakes I Would Like To See In Room 101!

    We’ve all read articles about common accounting mistakes, in fact there are so many out there you might expect everyone to be wise to these errors. But for one reason or another people still make them and therefore, at the risk of clogging up the Internet with even more dos and don’ts, here are the…

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  • It’s Christmas time…Know your tax!

    Christmas Parties With the Christmas season rapidly approaching a quick reminder that there is a tax exemption for employee entertaining. This only applies to “annual parties” available to all staff and is set at £150 per head per annum. If you hold more than one staff function per annum and the entire cost of the…

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  • How To Manage Your Business Finances Over Christmas

    For many businesses Christmas is the time of year when bells are ringing and tills are jingling! If your business is one of these, then you probably don’t even have time to read this blog post as you hit your busiest period! But for others, Christmas is the time of year when things begin to…

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  • 7 Great Cash Flow Tips For Seasonal Businesses

    If you are a seasonal business you will have unique issues around managing your cash flow. For those businesses whose income comes from the Great British Summertime, you’ll be looking to spread your summer takings over the leaner months. Other businesses may be gearing up for the Christmas season, and most likely have plenty of…

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  • A little bit of fun – how we pay our taxes

    Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to £100… If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this…

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