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George Osborne is delivering his Budget speech Wednesday of this week. It will be interesting to see if his plea for ideas to help smaller businesses has received a sympathetic ear. Here’s what a…

Just in case you have missed the news – that HMRC are stepping up their campaigns to stop tax avoidance and evasion – you may be interested to read the following quotes from HMRC and the Treasury: 

“Issue

The…

Speculation is rife that George Osborne is under pressure to pre-empt possible interest rate increases next year by offering tax cuts in the forthcoming Budget announcements on 19 March.

Polling…

For employers with between 50 and 249 employees auto-enrolment of employees into a pension scheme starts 1 April 2014. Smaller employers, under 50 employees, will need auto-enrol on a staged basis…

The government has already published certain draft clauses for the Finance Bill 2014. We have listed below some of the more topical changes disclosed.

 Changes for the tax year 2014-15:

 Personal…

The following announcements were posted to the GOV.UK website last month. They provide details of some of the compensation being offered to businesses affected by last month’s flooding across the…

Having spent many years building a business, entrepreneurs can still look forward to a maximum tax hit of just 10% when they sell their business, as long as they have organised their business affairs…

This scheme can be beneficial for businesses that have a low proportion of costs that include a VAT input tax charge, and their business turnover, excluding VAT, does not exceed £150,000.

One…

 1 March 2014 – Self Assessment tax for 2012/13 paid after this date will incur a 5% surcharge.

 1 March 2014 - Due date for Corporation Tax due for the year ended 31 May 2013.

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