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Shara joins Black and White
We are really excited to announce that Shara Iles has joined us from FigureFox Ltd.
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How To Setup A Limited Company
For many of the sole traders we work with, they’re keen to know when and how to set up a limited company. Likewise, many new business people we work with want to launch as a limited company straight away. There are a record number of self-employed people in Britain and that’s led to the formation…
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How Do I Contact HMRC By Phone?
There are a variety of different ways to contact HMRC – by phone, email, post, and even by webchat. The best ways to contact them though remain by phone and by post because HMRC’s agents can go into a level of details with you which is not possible when using the relatively insecure email and…
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Redundancy? Or What’s the Alternative?
The impact of coronavirus continues to be substantial, with many businesses across the UK facing significant business worries and little certainty on the edge of the horizon. In such a situation, employers therefore need to consider all eventualities, including potentially making people redundant, it is the only responsible thing to do. However, the problem with…
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Are you protected against a HMRC enquiry?
Each year HM Revenue & Customs (‘HMRC’) undertake an enormous number of tax enquiries into individuals and businesses to check they have paid the right amount of tax. Since 2010 HMRC have strengthened their approach to enquiry work by using wider powers and sophisticated software and consequently secured a record £34.1 billion of additional tax…
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Spring Budget 2021- Q1 Newsletter
After Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor of the Exchequer set out the Government’s tax and spending plan in the 2021 Budget last week, we wanted to keep you updated with all the key information you need to know for the year ahead. Most of the changes announced last week, will not impact the current tax year,…
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Top 10 Reasons We LOVE FreeAgent
There are lots of cloud-based accounting software solutions out there. They can be a key tool to help individuals and Small and Medium sized-enterprises (‘SMEs’) get better information to make the right decisions for their future anywhere they can find a wi-fi connection. This better information can also be available more efficiently at your fingertips.…
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Budget 2021 – How will it affect you?
Today Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor of the Exchequer set out the Government’s tax and spending plan for the year ahead. We cover the impact from individuals, self-employed and small company owners in detail below. We have also done a quick summary, in case this is easier for you to digest. This is based on what…
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Budget 2021 – Quick Summary
With the economy shrinking by 10% in 2020 with it forecast to rebound in 2021 by 4% and 7% in 2022. 700,000 people have lost their jobs during the pandemic, despite all the Coronavirus Support Schemes and unemployment is expected to hit 7.3% next year, although this is significantly less than the previous 11.9% predicted.…
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Sehar checks-in
We are really excited to announce that Sehar Tariq has joined us from Sweeting & Smedley Limited.
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VAT Domestic Reverse Charge for Construction Services Live *Today*
HMRC’s new Domestic Reverse Charge for the Construction Sector comes into force from today, 1 March 2021. As you may know from our previous blogs, it was originally planned to come into force in October 2019, until this was pushed back until October 2020 to enable more time for the sector to prepare for the…
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Coronavirus VAT Deferral Scheme
If you deferred the VAT due on your business between 20 March 2020 and 30 June 2020, you can join the new VAT deferral payment scheme from today until 21 June 2021. As part of the Coronavirus support schemes businesses were given the opportunity to defer payment until 31 March 2021 to give them breathing…