VAT
VAT registered businesses act as unpaid tax collectors and are required to account both promptly and accurately for all the tax revenue collected by them.
The VAT system is policed by HMRC with heavy penalties for breaches of the legislation.
Valuing Your VAT Annual Accounting Scheme
HMRC have introduced a number of VAT schemes over the years designed to reduce the administrative burden on small businesses. One such scheme is the annual accounting scheme.
What is the annual accounting scheme?
The annual accounting scheme helps small businesses by allowing them to submit only one VAT return annually rather than the normal four.
Valuing Your Business
There are many reasons why you may need to calculate the value of your business. Here we consider the range of methods available as well as some of the factors to consider during the process.
It is important to remember throughout that valuing a business is something of an art, albeit an art backed by science!
A Limited Company Tax Guide: Everything You Need To Know
A Limited Company Tax Guide: Everything You Need To Know
As a limited company, you are formally incorporated with Companies House and your tax structure changes entirely.
These changes could be confusing if you recently transitioned away from self-employment or another type of work that blended your personal and business interests.
Trusts
What are trusts?
Trusts are a long established mechanism which allow individuals to benefit from the assets whilst others (the trustees) have the legal ownership and day to day control over the assets. A trust can be extremely flexible and have an existence totally independent of the person who established it and those who benefit from it.
Travel and Subsistence for Directors and Employees
Travelling and subsistence expenditure incurred by or on behalf of employees gives rise to many problems.
We highlight below the main areas to consider in deciding whether tax relief is available on travel and subsistence.
Taxation of the Family
Individuals are subject to a system of independent taxation so husbands and wives are taxed separately. This can give rise to valuable tax planning opportunities. Furthermore, the tax position of any children is important.
Marriage breakdowns can also have a considerable impact for tax purposes.
Tax-Free Childcare
The government has introduced a tax incentive for childcare Tax-Free Childcare (TFC).
Overview
Under TFC the tax relief available is 20% of the costs of childcare up to a total of childcare costs of £10,000 per child per year.
Statutory Sick, Statutory Maternity and Statutory Paternity Pay
Statutory Sick Pay (SSP), Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP) and Shared Parental Pay (ShPP) are important regulations to understand as they enforce minimum legal requirements on employers. Each operates in a different way.
