Category: Tax
Director Remuneration Payments: Dividends or Salary?
Director Remuneration Payments: Dividends or Salary? As a director and shareholder of a limited company in the UK, deciding how to pay yourself – whether as a salary or dividends…
Understanding VAT Rules for eCommerce Businesses
Understanding VAT Rules for eCommerce Businesses Running an online retail business in the UK comes with certain VAT obligations that must be properly followed. While understanding VAT may seem complicated…
Why the UK Inheritance Tax System Needs to be Reformed and Simplified
Why the UK Inheritance Tax System Needs to be Reformed and Simplified Inheritance tax (IHT) is one of the most contentious taxes in the whole of the UK. Despite it…
How to Deal with a Compliance Check on Your R&D Tax Credits Claim
How to Deal with a Compliance Check on Your R&D Tax Credits Claim It can be very worrying to find out that your R&D tax credit claim has been put…
Everything You Need to Know About Preparing for a PAYE or VAT Visit
Everything You Need to Know About Preparing for a PAYE or VAT Visit If your business receives a notification that HMRC will be conducting a review or inspection of your…
How to Check Whether You’ve Paid Sufficient NI for Pension Qualifications
How to Check Whether You’ve Paid Sufficient NI for Pension Qualifications As you approach State Pension age, it’s important to verify that you’ve paid enough National Insurance (NI) contributions over…
Corporation Tax: Should You Pay Monthly or Quarterly?
Corporation Tax: Should You Pay Monthly or Quarterly? As a director of a limited company in the UK, you have some flexibility in choosing how often to pay corporation tax….
What is the Optimal Director’s Salary for Your Business?
What is the Optimal Director’s Salary for Your Business? One of the advantages of being an owner-managed business is that you can decide how you pay yourself. Some business owners…
Spring Budget 2023
The Spring Budget 2023 was announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, on 15th March 2023. The budget was presented as a solution to reducing soaring inflation as…
Autumn Budget 2021 – Personal Tax
The personal allowance The personal allowance is currently £12,570. The Chancellor announced in the March 2021 Budget that the personal allowance will be frozen at £12,570 for the tax years…
Autumn Budget 2021 – Business
Research and Development relief reform Research and Development (R&D) tax reliefs for companies will be reformed to: support modern research methods by expanding qualifying expenditure to include data and cloud…
2021 Budget
Today the Chancellor has provided the budget for 2021 and beyond, updating the country on new measures required to combat the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and future changes to…
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