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A new year has, as many expected, brought the third lockdown. With Boris Johnson placing the entire country under Tier 4 restrictions and closing schools, January 2021 feels a lot like March [...]

Managing a small business can be difficult at the best of times. Margins are low and finances are a delicate balancing act. During a pandemic, the thought of the additional unexpected costs of an [...]

With lockdown being imposed to the whole of England the Chancellor Rishi Sunak has been working hard to keep up. As a result, we’ve now had several updates to his support packages for businesses [...]

Business is going digital which means more and more people are transitioning to accounting software.  The market for accounting software has been growing over the past few years and the [...]

For years, climate change has been one of those issues that businesses were happy to ignore. Green washing was big business with firms keen to be seen to be doing the right thing but not taking [...]

From the introduction of personal tax accounts to the launch of Making Tax Digital (MTD), the Government has been incredibly keen to move businesses and self-employed people towards a paperless [...]

It’s perfectly OK for directors of limited companies to borrow money from their businesses, but there are strict rules that need to be followed. For sole traders, business and personal finances [...]

Freelancers and contractors are getting ready to pay their taxes to HMRC but those who would have liked to pay by credit card may have to find alternative. As 2018 dawned, HMRC had a nasty shock [...]

Bringing Tax Online  At Budget 2015, the UK government set out its plans to transform the UK tax system as we know it. The Making Tax Digital initiative was announced soon after which aims [...]

Being a sole trader can reap huge rewards. You get a large amount of freedom when it comes to the work you accept and can have a much more flexible work schedule compared your industry peers. [...]