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How to register as a Sole Trader
Welcome to the next stage of your career – welcome to the world of the self-employed. One of the first things anyone becoming self-employed on their own has to do is to tell HM Revenue and Customs and, in this article, we’ll tell you everything you need to know about how to register as a…
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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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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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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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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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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…