HM Revenue and Customs is warning millions of Self Assessment customers to be aware of fraudsters in the run up to the 31 January deadline. Over the last year, HMRC received nearly 900,000 reports from the public about suspicious HMRC contact – phone calls, texts or emails. More than 100,000 of these were phone scams, while over 620,000 reports […]
Kamlesh Rajput, founder of Sterling Finance, winners of the graduate and non-graduate programme of the year award at the 2019 British Accountancy Awards, discusses why their programme set them apart from the other nominees, which included some top-20 firms, to take home the award. Author : Chris Jewers Date published : December 16, 2019 Link […]
HMRC has announced simplified procedures for business importing from EU as part of its no deal Brexit preparation. Letters have been sent to 145,000 VAT registered business trading with the EU with procedures and actions they will need to take. These transitional simplified procedures will make importing easier for an initial period for one year, […]
It will make things much easier if you have the right papers before you try to fill in your return. If you intend to file on-line, it often helps to fill in a paper copy of the return first, so that you know you have all the right figures. The type of records you need […]
It is that time of the year again and Christmas is upon us. Christmas parties are on the horizon (if not over it). Are you planning on throwing a Christmas Party and handing out gifts? REMEMBER HMRC is watching you!!!! Here is a quick reminder of the benefits to staff and tax treatment of seasonal […]
Better Business Telecoms Today’s telecoms technology can do more than simply save time and money. Therefore you can use the technology to attract customers, manage incoming and outgoing calls, hold conference calls and more. Telecommunications is the exchange of information over significant distances by electronic means and refers to all types of data, voice and […]
Are you a business owner who would like to develop a successful business? If the answer is yes, the best way is to achieve that is to have self-belief and confidence in yourself and your actions. Self-confidence is an important key to success. Self-confidence is a combination of a state of mind and a strong […]
Our Journey and Sage In 2003 my entrepreneurial journey started when I set up my accountancy practice. I started my practice from a box room in Ashton under Lyne, with a diary, a phone and no clients. Today we have a team of eleven dedicated members. We market ourselves as “family accountants for family entrepreneurs […]
Running a business always stretches us outside our comfort zone. Every day is different. We all do more than 1 job in our business. Sometime we delegate few tasks however many little mundane duties we like to do it ourselves. One of them is opening the post. So we are looking at the pile of […]
Normally employee’s payslips have one line description “monthly salary” or “weekly salary”. This includes everything, overtime, sick pay, time in lieu etc. This has been the case as long as we can all remember. From 01.04.2019, it has changed. Every employee’s payslip should be itemised for each type of pay and each type of […]