Apr 24, 2023 | Expenses, FAQ, Information, Misc, News, Tips
Childcare benefits with a sting in the tail for high earners Up to 30 hours of free childcare per week will become available for any child older than nine months from 2024, when there is a staggered introduction starting at 15 hours in April 2024, rising to 30 hours...
Apr 17, 2023 | Expenses, FAQ, Information, Misc, News, PAYE, Pensions, Tips
Pensions got a major overhaul in the Chancellor’s Budget announcements, with an increase in the amount you can put into your pension each year and an effective removal of the limit that your pension can reach before facing significant penalties of as much as 55%....
Mar 6, 2023 | FAQ, Information, Misc, News, Tax, Tips
January has earned the dubious distinction of being the month when more couples decide they want to get divorced than any other. The reasons are likely to be myriad, but the likelihood is that they either mark Christmas or New Year as a line in the sand for changing...
Feb 27, 2023 | Business Start Ups, FAQ, Information, Making Tax Digital, Misc, News, QuickBooks, Self-Assessment, Tax, Tips, Vat
Making Tax Digital (MTD) has been on the cards for years now, with businesses already pushed towards dealing with their VAT this way. But plans to extend this for Income Tax Self-Assessment (ITSA) have been put on hold once again until April 6, 2026, eight years later...
Feb 20, 2023 | FAQ, Information, Misc, Self-Assessment, Tips
It is a fact of life that when we lose a loved one, the loss and grief is not all we have to deal with, even though that would be enough. Sadly, there is also a lot of administration that needs to be done by those left behind. This can be anything from registering the...
Feb 13, 2023 | FAQ, Information, News, Self-Assessment, Tax, Tips
The taxman has been busy this month – no surprise given it is the time when self-assessment returns need to be filed. But anyone who misses the deadline of January 31 faces a new set of interest rates for penalties that were only published on December 20 last year....