Sutherland Black have just become a Xero Silver Partner! This recognises our rapid growth in bringing Xero to our clients. Our listing on the Xero website has been updated with our new status: https://www.xero.com/uk/advisors/accountant/2012/sutherland-black-chartered-accountants/ The advantages of Cloud Book Keeping software are clear to see for our clients. Automatic bank feeds reduce errors and thanks […]
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An Accounting Revolution While everyone was celebrating the New Year in January a new piece of seemingly obscure banking legislation came into place in the UK which has the power to revolutionise the way that small businesses integrate technology with their banks. Previously if a third party application like a piece of book keeping software
Its nearing the end of the Tax Year! Here are our top tips on year end planning and how to Save Tax. Director’s salary levels: Many small business owners pay themselves a small salary and take the rest of their income in dividends in order to be tax efficient. These salary levels should be reviewed
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We always recommend that Directors of Limited Companies do a self assessment return every year and ensure that our clients do so. If you go here: https://www.gov.uk/check-if-you-need-a-tax-return and tick the box that you are a Director HMRC will tell you that you need to do so. However occasionally we take on a Company Client where the
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Here are the highlights from a fairly content free budget. The main budget is moving to the Autumn from this year. TAX FREE DIVIDEND ALLOWANCE TO BE REDUCED TO £2,000 The Chancellor also announced measures to limit the rise in tax-driven incorporation. The £5,000 tax free dividend allowance introduced by George Osborne will be
As noted before in summary a change to the Flat Rate VAT scheme was announced in the Autumn Statement. This change comes in to effect on the 1st of April 2017. This change is intended to target businesses on the Flat Rate Scheme who would only be reclaiming a minimal amount of VAT if they were calculating
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The new flat rate State Pension which started last year https://www.gov.uk/new-state-pension/eligibility requires 35 years of National Insurance contributions to receive the whole amount which is currently £155.65 a week. This may not sound a lot but at current annuity rates you would need a private pension pot of more than £200,000 to receive the same amount.
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Happy New Year to everyone. 2017 has started and is going to be a busy year. There are many tax changes arriving this that we will be helping our clients to negotiate. Some of the highlights (if you can call them that) are: Changes to the flat rate VAT scheme for businesses with low costs: The
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Welcome To Our Autumn Statement Update Many of the changes below were already flagged up. The change to Flat Rate VAT however was a bit of a bombshell. We will be in contact with all our clients on Flat Rate VAT to see if the change affects them. If you have any queries about anything
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DON’T MISS OUT ON TAX RELIEF ON R&D The government is concerned that many small companies are missing out on generous R&D tax credits. For the last year HMRC have been offering companies an advance assurance scheme to check whether or not their activities qualify before they make a claim. So far over 200 applications
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