New Year’s resolution for owners of small businesses

As the year is winding up, now is a great time to start making plans for the New Year. It’s easy to be over-ambitious in both personal and business goals, but there are plenty of easy steps you can take to make next year a better year for yourself and your...
Marketing Resolutions to Start the New Year the Right Way

Marketing Resolutions to Start the New Year the Right Way

Our December 2014 Tax Newsletter is now available to download and contains lots of useful information for small businesses.   Contents include: • Collection of unpaid tax through your tax code • New tax relief for investment in social enterprise •...

Some pre-Christmas cheer

The theme this week is one of a number of steps which the government is taking, rather than just one commercial issue. And as we are approaching the Festive season isn’t it good to concentrate on a few good things – and they even put the authorities in a good (ish)...

Osborne Backs Down on Bank Account Raids

I am really not surprised by this latest development surrounding the Inland Revenue’s ability to take money from peoples bank accounts. In fact, I wrote a blog about this very topic back on 30 July 2014, suggesting that such action was against the Magna Carta. After...

Who speaks for small business?

There is a current issue to do with VAT which has been foisted upon us by the EU and which could have far reaching effects on any small business which sells products and services over the Internet.  It is known by the name of a (partial) solution which HMRC came up...