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HMRC have kindly reminded employers and students that there are steps which can be taken to ensure tax isn’t deducted where it need not be. If you, or somebody you employ will be earning less than £7,475pa then you won’t … Continue reading
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Negotiation
How do you negotiate? Do you negotiate? Anybody who is in business needs to negotiate – price, quantity, service levels, delivery dates, anything and everything. It’s something I’ve got interested in recently. Many people approach a negotiation with clenched fists, … Continue reading
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Goodbye to the NI Card
Alongside your first legal pub visit and the first time you bunny-hopped your mum’s car down the street, the receipt of a shiny piece of plastic with 9 characters embossed across the centre – your NI card – is one … Continue reading
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False self employment
Are you self employed? Are you false self employed? False self-employment is where a worker is treated as being self-employed for income tax and National Insurance but in reality seems to be in permanent employment with the same company or … Continue reading
Googling Yourself
I was pleasantly surprised recently that on typing “harrogate accountants” into Google, this blog came out top of the organic search results. Not bad for a man who does his own SEO! Although it seems to rise and fall up … Continue reading
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To Audit or not to Audit. That is the question.
If the turnover of your business is below £6.2 million, there is no legal requirement for you to have a statutory audit. You might have be asked to have one by an investor, or a bank – in which case … Continue reading
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Requests for payment and VAT
Now VAT is up to 20% it becomes more has focused attention on cash flow and ways to delay payment of output VAT on fees. One possible way is to issue a ‘request for payment’ rather than a VAT invoice. … Continue reading
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Cars
If you’re leasing a car for use in your business there are quite a few factors to consider. It could end up costing you more than you think. There are various folk ideas about the realtive cost of car. The … Continue reading
Budgets and Forecasts
Do you have a budget for your business? A lot of big businesses now see “budget” as a dirty word. They associate it with an old fashioned fixed target approach. Budgets are fine for the public sector, they tell me, … Continue reading