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Five Employment Law Changes Coming In April 2021
With April swiftly approaching, there are many key changes in Employment Law. We highlight the five key ones below with employment tribunal, statutory sick pay, family leave, minimum wages and perhaps for us, most significantly IR35 changes.
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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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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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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…
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Bounce Back Loans Update
As part of the Coronavirus Support Schemes, the Government introduced the Bounce Back Loan to support Small Businesses through this most difficult of times. Since the initial announcement there has been a few further improvements made here, so we wanted to make you aware of these, especially as this scheme is coming to an end…
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Have you Submitted your Self-Assessment Tax Return? 1.8 million haven’t…
On 25 January 2021, six days before the 31 January 2021 deadline, HMRC announced that if you are unable to meet this deadline, you will not receive a late filing penalty, as long as you file your 2019/20 tax return online by 28 February 2021. However, they encouraged people to still aim to meet this…
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Preparing for a post-pandemic world
How much time have you given to preparing for a post-pandemic world? That may seem a challenging prospect while we find ourselves still in lockdown, with no confirmed end date, but it will come to an end in the not-too-distant future and the economy will start to open up again. So now is the time…
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Ten Top Tips For Completing Your Self-Assessment Tax Return
It’s that time of the year again… Tax Return season. It’s like Christmas, only better. Or maybe not. The deadline for filing your 2019/2020 (year ending 5th April 2020) Tax Return online is 31st January 2021, or 20 days away. Payment of your taxes is 31st January 2021, unless your tax liability is in excess…
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2020 Review
Traditional accounting tends to focus on the past, collecting information about what’s happened in order to pay last year’s tax bill. But we prefer to look at what’s going on now for our clients and focus on the future. That’s why we’ve been doing a lot of thinking about what 2021 will bring. The CBI…