As a Chartered Certified Accountant it is my duty to maintain a high level of professional behaviour, but how does this interact with...

The first item we reach for in the morning is often our mobile phone. Social media and news may be top of your priorities, but with many...

The changes in the VAT rules for cross border sales to and from the EU are certainly creating chaos and confusion especially in the...

It really lifts my spirit to receive great #feedback like this, as it makes me feel that my efforts were fully appreciated. Stuart came...

Do you understand what the changes to the end of the soft landing period for VAT MTD will mean for you? If you are still using the manual...

If you are still manually entering VAT figures in the boxes on HMRC's Online VAT facility then you are not MTD compliant! The confusion...

So you're thinking of starting a business. What first steps need to be taken? Decision on legal structure (ie self employed, partnership,...

This Friday #ChineseNewYear will greet the #YearoftheOx. This really feels like the year of the Accountants and Bookkeepers. The Ox is...

Can online accounting software be good for you #mentalhealth ? I think there's a very good argument that software such as Xero can...

The end of June 2020 marks the end of the UK Covid19 VAT Deferral Period and therefore it is worth spending 5 minutes considering whether...

If you have any business arrangements, contracts and transactions which involve parties from two different tax jurisdictions, then you...

Growth to mid sized companies have a heightened tax risk due to the pace of change Tax is one of those areas where being small, dynamic...

As organisations grow and age, inefficiencies in tax compliance activities can multiply. Without periodic reassessment, organisations can...

‘We've been Santa lot of Elf Assessments’ says HMRC. Definitely one too many Christmas crackers at HMRC this year, with maybe a generous...

In December 2019, PwC issued an insight on HMRC's research into Mid-Sized Business Tax Strategy, which indicates that PwC have noted a...

This post highlights a compliance risk with VAT Making Tax Digital ("MTD") implementation which some mandatory submission registrations...

Quite often I see posts on Facebook vilifying companies for paying too little or no corporation tax and as a tax professional they often...

Large, medium or small, all companies can benefit from considering how HMRC view the effectiveness of their tax management systems,...

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