One of the best features of our brand new website is the addition of a cloud-based accounting software. Why? Because gone are the days of the traditional office worker, welcome…
Most businesses entertain customer, suppliers and useful business contacts from time to time. It has long been the case that tax relief is not available on entertaining expenses, but in…
In the summer budget the Chancellor announced that from 6th April 2016 the tax credit on dividends would be replaced by a £5,000 tax free dividend allowance available to all….
Last time round we looked at the effect of the new dividend tax on three fictitious single taxpayers and looked at the opportunities available for the tax planning. This time…
For the next few months we will be looking at how the new dividend tax impacts on all areas of tax planning with a series of worked examples. In this…
There is an inequality in the tax system that affects businesses. The owner of a business operated through a limited company who draws all of his profits in the form…
George Osbourne presented his first budget under a majority conservative government on 8th July 2015. We focus in this blog on some of the key measures that we believe will…
e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 The opening moves of a game of chess form the title of this blog. Anyone who plays chess regularly…
Over many millions of years the rotation of the moon has been slowed down so that only one hemisphere is ever visible from the Earth the invisible hemisphere is known…
Tax avoidance schemes have been around for many years, but until about 20 years ago these were used by rich individuals and large companies to shelter very large sums (typically…