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Autumn Budget 2021

Autumn Budget 2021 Small business owners hopes for some crumbs of comfort from the chancellor in his budget and autumn statement were dashed. The triple hit on small businesses coming from April 2022 is still very much happening. What was announced in the Autumn Budget? Hit 1: Corporation tax from April 1 2023 to increase to 25% for compa...

Closing a Company

Closing a Company There’s a lot of advice out there on how to set up a company. However, information on how to close a company is a little harder to find.  Companies are closed down in the UK every day and it’s important to do it correctly.  Just as you have legal responsibilities in running a company, you also have a legal responsibi...

Get Ready for the UKCA Mark

Get Ready for the UKCA Mark The new UKCA mark replaces the CE mark for products sold in Great Britain.   It came into effect in January 2021, at the end of the Brexit transition. However, a grace period means that you can still use the CE mark until January 2022. After that point goods sold in Great Britain must show the UKCA mark. ...

Import One Stop Shop (IOSS) for Sellers

Import One Stop Shop (IOSS)- What Sellers Need to Know The new Import One Stop Shop (IOSS) will begin on July 1st, 2021. This is because the Value Added Tax (VAT) exemption for goods importing into the EU, and under EUR 22 in value will end. If you sell goods into the EU, this could affect you. Find out all you need to know...

How to Price Your Products & Services

How to Price Your Products & Services Getting the right pricing of your product or service can be the most difficult job for business owners. Occasionally, businesses vastly overestimate the true value of their products, but we find that we are more likely to see our clients underselling themselves. It may be that feeling of “imposter...

IR35

IR35 – Does it Apply to You? IR35, or off-payroll working rules, was introduced by HMRC as a way of assessing whether contractors are genuinely contractors, and not actually what they call ‘disguised’ employees to avoid paying tax, such as NI contributions. A contractor working through a limited company can take advantage of several ...

Domestic Reverse Charge for Construction Industry

Domestic Reverse Charge for Construction Industry The Domestic Reverse Charge (DRC) which has been delayed twice, because of Brexit and then Covid-19, will come into effect on 1st March 2021. HMRC is hoping DRC will make it harder for fraudulent sub-contractors to charge VAT to their customers and then not declare in the returns.  Sadly, t...

Domestic Reverse Charge for Construction Industry Delayed

Domestic Reverse Charge for Construction Industry Delayed If you are in the construction industry you may have been dreading the introduction of the VAT Domestic Reverse Charge this year.  On top of the fears over Brexit and now, of course, the massive hit the economy has taken from the coronavirus crisis, the introduction of anot...

Outsourcing The Pros and Cons

Outsourcing for Your Business Outsourcing could be exactly the right solution for many businesses right now. On the one hand, businesses are facing the challenge of “pivoting” their business to survive the Covid recession.   On the other financial resources are more stretched than ever. So adding new tasks or services will be daunting. The...

Why you need a scalable business model

Why You Need a Scalable Business Model Why should you need a scalable business model? Nobody starts a business to see it crashing after a couple of years. Nor does any excited entrepreneur dream that their business will stay small forever or that they will have to throw in the towel when a recession hits. Of course not. Every business owner...

Protect your Business from Cyber-Attacks

Protect your Business from Cyber-Attacks Cyber-attacks and security have been prominent in the news lately, and though these high-profile stories may have nothing to do with your business, the threat to small and medium size business of cyber-attacks through malware is very real. Compound that by the fact that more of us are working from ho...

Garden Offices for Business

Building a Garden Office Through Your Business As many of us have been working from home for the last few months it seems that our whole approach to work is changing. Last month Twitter announced that staff could continue working from home “forever” if they chose to. In addition, a recent survey found that 28% of employees expected the...

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