Taking care of your mental health
Taking Care of Your Mental Health Sometimes life can feel overwhelming, juggling work, family life, bills, debts, furlough, bereavement and throw quarantine into the mix and you get a perfect …
Changes to the furlough scheme and what that means for you
Rishi Sunak announced this evening (29 May 2020) changes to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, with businesses starting to share the cost of furloughing staff from August 2020 onwards. August: …
ALMOST HALF OF SMALL BUSINESSES DO NOT INTEND TO REPAY GOVERNMENT LOANS
Small business owners do not believe they will be taken to court for failure to pay, or they fear they will have gone bust within a year. A shocking 43% …
Evaluating My Business Through Covid-19
This is a simple guide to help you to evaluate and plan for the future, once everything gets back to relative normality. It will help you to avoid past bad …
COVID-19: Furlough scheme extended to October 2020
The Chancellor has announced an extension of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) by four months to the end of October 2020 alongside a proposed relaxation of some of the scheme …
Money Saving Tips
We are all trying to tighten the purse strings to get us through the next few months. There are little things that you can do which can help your bank …
Educate yourself on inheritance tax
Inheritance Tax (IHT) has rules and exemptions which are worth getting familiar with; this article should help make things clearer to understand. As an individual, you have the entitlement to …
Self assessment deadline
31st January 2020 – DEADLINE You have until 31st January 2020 to file your Self Assessment Tax Return. Don’t leave it until the last minute. If you have filed before …
What Tax relief options do you have?
If you are self employed there are certain tax relief options available to you. Running costs are a big part of operating a business and you could be entitled to …
Off-payroll (IR35) – What you need to know as a small business
In April 2020 the ‘off-payroll’ IR35 rules are extended to the private sector and small companies will be excluded, but what criteria to you need to reach to be excluded? …