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June 17, 2013

It’s just not cricket


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In the news last week an Australian cricketer punched an English cricketer in the face.  Whilst it is good to know that our young cricketers must be super fit to

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June 13, 2013

Oh great!!!!!!


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Who would be a tax advisor these days? Anyone following reports in the media will have noticed tax advisors getting a bashing for the ‘morally dubious’ practice of giving clients

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June 5, 2013

Iceland goes to Florida


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A few weeks ago, I presented a seminar on benefits that can be given to employees free of tax and NIC and by coincidence, I found myself reading in The

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June 5, 2013

HOWZATT!


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HMRC have denied targeting local sports clubs after a small town cricket club was sent a tax bill of over £14,000. Sawbridgeworth Cricket Club, an amateur Hertfordshire team with an

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May 31, 2013

Tax Freedom Day 2013


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If you felt a spring in your step on 30th May it might have been because that was “Tax Freedom Day” for 2013. I’ve discussed this in earlier years but

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May 17, 2013

HMRC enquiries and fee protection cover


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We have recently started offering and speaking to our clients about professional fee protection insurance and have seen a fairly encouraging uptake, but not in all cases! I recently met

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May 7, 2013

Are your competitors’ and customers’ accounts really as good as first appears?


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Every so often I am asked by a client to cast my eye over a set of accounts for them, usually that of a new or existing customer that has

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May 1, 2013

George’s big plan to get us investing in the future


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It’s not often that the powers that be see fit to give companies a generous tax break, but it sometimes happens. Announced last year and in effect January 2013-15 all

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April 25, 2013

Don’t let the pace of technology outrun your data protection policies


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The recent news of the death of Margaret Thatcher brought back to mind my memories of her election to parliament.  As a schoolboy (I am 45 years old now) it

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April 2, 2013

Financial Statements – Business Reviews – they needn’t be a chore


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The purpose of the Business Review (‘Review’) is to add further substance to a company’s financial statements and inform the users of those financial statements about the events that have

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March 19, 2013

Crooked tax advisors beware!


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A change in the law will mean that from 1 April, civil penalties for persons who act dishonestly with a view to bringing about a tax loss while acting as

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March 14, 2013

Don’t be Paranoid about saving tax!


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Despite all the “bad press” for multinational companies and high profile individuals in recent months, the fact remains that every individual in the UK has the right to certain tax

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