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IN BUSINESS, SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL To be honest with you, the word ‘business’ conjures up a sense of boredom – even in me, and it is the world I have chosen to inhabit! Here’s the thing though, in order to keep the wheels of our communities turning smoothly, we need some means of earning
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Small Business Saturday It’s both wonderful and peculiarly appropriate that there is such a thing as ‘Small Business Saturday’. Wonderful because small businesses are so often the fuel of the engine of a local economy, and appropriate because so many small business people work at weekends! It makes me smile when I hear the Government’s
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Do you work to live or live to work? In our own household, it has been known for one or the other of us to sneak off in the evening, iPad or laptop in hand to just do some ‘catching up’. This is far more likely to be Mr B, as I am more frequently
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Who is affected? The draft legislation confirms that from April 2019 all VAT registered businesses (incorporated and unincorporated) will be required to keep their VAT records digitally, using MTD compatible software. What are the deadlines? HMRC has confirmed that the MTD quarterly submission dates may be linked to a business’s existing VAT return periods and
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Lights, Camera, Action! Sometimes a new expertise creeps into your world in a quite unexpected way. In fact, if you aren’t careful, you can blink and miss the opportunity to pick up and run with it and in this rapidly changing world, that isn’t a great idea. A couple of years ago, the redoubtable captain
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At last someone is listening! In the latest announcement from the Government about their Making Tax Digital strategy there is an acknowledgement of the widely held concerns about the pace and scope of the proposed changes to the tax reporting systems. New parameters and a new timetable have been announced as follows: only businesses with
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According to a report by the FSB, The Pensions Regulator (TPR) is carrying out spot checks across towns and cities in the UK to make sure that employers are complying with their auto enrolment of workplace pension duties. Inspections have already been carried out in London and Manchester and, within the last two weeks, checks
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IT’S THE PEOPLE THAT MAKE THE BUSINESS. One of my ‘Linked In’ (an on-line network for business folk) attributes is Business Development, so it won’t come as a surprise that after all the years I have spent encouraging, helping to launch, and develop young businesses, I might feel a bit knowledgeable about this field. However,
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Following the surprise announcement of a General Election, the legislation to bring into effect the Making Tax Digital measures has been dropped from the Finance Bill that has to be passed before Parliament is dissolved. The Government decided there was insufficient time for scrutiny of these major changes which would affect all businesses. Where this
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Legislation issued in 2013 gave HMRC power to access data from organisations that process the credit and debit card transactions for UK businesses. Last month HMRC launched the Card Transaction Programme which is a new disclosure opportunity for businesses that accept credit and debit card payments and realise that they have not declared all their