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EU VAT registration
November 26, 2015

Like it or not, FRS102 is coming!


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For accounting periods starting on or after 1 January 2015, UK & Ireland company financial statements which currently use full Financial Reporting Standards will be prepared under the new FRS102

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Patent Box Regime
November 12, 2015

ESOS Compliance – Large companies – ACT NOW!


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You should be aware that by 5 December 2015, large companies in the UK must report on energy use and recommendations for energy savings under the UK Government Energy Savings

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November 5, 2015

Email Etiquette


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Last week I emailed someone I had not emailed before.  I pressed “reply to all” in an email from a third party in which they were included.  Surprisingly I received

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October 29, 2015

Racing against the trend


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This time last week I was recovering from yet another weekend of OCR (Obstacle Course Racing). OCR involves participants being required to climb walls, wade through lakes, jump through fires

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October 29, 2015

Taxation implications of the emission scandal


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As you may be aware, a proportion of diesel vehicles have been caught up in the emission scandal. In short the VW group has been accused of and has admitted

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October 27, 2015

Register of Companies and Businesses – is NOT Companies House


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This week I received a letter from the “Register of Companies and Businesses” requesting that our client, a newly incorporated company, “pays for the publication of the company, and lack

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October 14, 2015

Whose is that Intellectual Property?


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Behind every successful business is the entrepreneur. The entrepreneur is the one with the innovative idea, and the drive to push the idea forward to success. Understandably, the entrepreneur is

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October 6, 2015

Making a Horror Film – Not so Scary?


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Last night I had the pleasure of attending a film premiere to celebrate the release of a new horror film produced by a Barnes Roffe client. This was a slightly

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September 14, 2015

VAT – is it a van or a car?


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It is important to understand whether a vehicle is a van or a car for the purposes of VAT input tax claims, VAT fuel scale charges and for assessment of

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September 9, 2015

ID Fraud – What Information Is Out There?


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I recently received an e-mail from a client saying that they had been subject to cheque fraud – the second time this had happened to them in a month.   Basically,

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