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Business guides & articles
Our business advice publications and articles cover a wide range of areas that provide insight and planning to help you and your business. Please click the links below for more information.
2008 Budget Summary - View the key changes announced in the Chancellor’s speech on 12 March 2008.
Tax Articles - Here we have a range of articles to help you with tax and VAT issues for your business.
- Proposed amendments to resident & domicile tax rules - Update (March 2008)
- Property - is it VATable? - our guidance on the treatment of VAT on property supplies (Spring 2008)
- Proposed amendments to resident & domicile tax rules (February 2008)
- A look at the key proposals from the 2007 pre-budget report (Winter 2007)
- Encouraging innovation - tax breaks for R&D expenditure (Autumn 2007)
- Carousel fraud - new government rules (Summer 2007)
- Company cars - green or mean? We highlight the pros and cons (Summer 2007)
- Loans between companies and directors/shareholers (Spring 2007)
- Construction Industry Scheme Update (Spring 2007)
- Treatment of repairs and capital expenditure for tax purposes (Winter 2006)
- Corporation tax - the effect of associated companies (Autumn 2006)
- VAT - to claim or not to claim - a brief guide to the recovery of costs (Autumn 2006)
- VAT - Flat rate rules could save smaller businesses money (Autumn 2005)
- Principal Private Residence Relief - the Capital Gains Tax exemption for your home (Autumn 2004)
Business Advisory Articles - Our articles highlight key considerations for your business - from accounting issues through to business management topics.
- Top ten tips for staying buoyant when the economy doesn’t (Spring 2008)
- Is it time you gave your business an environmental audit? (Winter 2007)
- Limited Liability Partnerships - not just for the pressional services firm (Autumn 2006)
- Experts Corner - Leadership Under The Spotlight (Spring 2006)
- Directors' responsibility to disclose information (Summer 2005)
- New rules on International Accounting Standards (Spring 2005)
Business Advisory Publications - We can provide you with informative fact sheets on a vast range of business areas - from business compliance through to personal and corporate taxation, VAT, PAYE and NI.
Please contact us for more information on any of the following topics:
| Business Startup | |
| An Introduction to Running Your Own Business | |
| Should you Form a Limited Company? | |
| Forming a Limited Company | |
| Buying a Company “Off the Shelf” | |
| Partnership Agreements | |
| Choice of Accounting Date | |
| Preparing Your Business Plan | |
| Business in General | |
| Getting the Stationery Right | |
| Insuring Your Business | |
| Employed or Self-Employed | |
| How Long Should You Keep Your Books and Records? | |
| Computer Comfort and Safety in the Workplace | |
| Using Us as Your Business Advisor | |
| The Construction Industry Scheme to 5 April 2007 | |
| The Construction Industry Scheme from 6 April 2007 | |
| Tax Free Gifts to Staff | |
| The National Minimum Wage | |
| Capital Gains Tax Taper Relief | |
| Dealing with Employee Absence | |
| Stamp Duties | |
| Husband and Wife Businesses | |
| How to Gain the Most out of your Accounting Records | |
| Could Your Business Survive Without You? | |
| Use of Vehicle Mileage Rates for the Self Employed | |
| Limited Companies | |
| Audit Exemption | |
| An Introduction to Corporation Tax | |
| Corporation Tax Self Assessment | |
| Companies - Getting the Timing Right | |
| Company Bonus or Dividend? | |
| Company Car Tax | |
| Interest and Tax Payments | |
| How Much Dividend Can I Take? | |
| Personal Service Companies | |
| Business Management | |
| How to Increase Your Profit | |
| How to Balance the (Creditors) Purchase Ledger | |
| How to Balance Your Sales (Debtors) Control Account | |
| Buy, HP, or Lease? | |
| Six Steps to an Effective Business Plan | |
| Keeping an Eye on Your Cashflow | |
| PAYE and National Insurance | |
| An Introduction to PAYE | |
| National Insurance Planning | |
| Minimsing the Risk of Employer Compliance Visits | |
| Don’t Pay Too Much National Insurance | |
| Employing your Spouse | |
| Benefits in Kind and Expenses Payments | |
| VAT | |
| An Introduction to VAT | |
| VAT Cash Accounting Scheme | |
| VAT Annual Accounting Scheme | |
| VAT - How to Survive the Enforcement Powers | |
| VAT Flat Rate Scheme | |
| VAT Fuel Scale Charge | |
| Group VAT Registration | |
| Personal Taxation | |
| An Introduction to Self Assessment | |
| An Introduction to the Tax System for the Self Employed | |
| Accumulation and Maintenance Trusts | |
| Planning for a Year’s Prosperity | |
| Inheritance Tax Planning | |
| Does Your Estate Planning Pass the Test? | |
| Separation and Divorce | |
| Giving to Charity | |
| Interest and Tax Payments | |
| Child Tax Credit & Working Tax Credit | |
| Pension Credit | |
| Are You Still on Track for Retirement? | |
| Tax Aspects of Property Investment | |
| The Child Trust Fund | |
| Childcare Provided by Employers | |
| Savings & Investments | |
| Tax Efficient Investments | |
| Tax on Savings Income | |
| Capital Gains Tax EIS Deferral Relief | |
| Venture Capital Trusts | |
| Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) | |
| VCT and EIS Compared | |
| Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs) | |
| Buy to Let Properties | |
| Pensions from 6 April 2006 (A Day) | |
| Pension Contributions and Tax Relief | |
Useful Links
Financial Sanctions - HM Treasury
If you would like more detailed information about the topics contained in the business advisory publications or articles, please contact Claire Carvall on 020 7022 0050 or .