by David Jones | Sep 15, 2022 | Accounts, Comments on Global News, Personal Finance
The day after being handed the keys to Number 10, our new prime minister, Liz Truss, disappointed both the general public and businesses with the announcement of her plans to help with the energy-costs crisis. Unfortunately, her speech in the Commons setting out her...
by David Jones | Feb 11, 2021 | Accounts, Business Tax, Self Assessment, VAT
Now that Tax Return season is coming to an end, I’ve turned my attention to my growing inbox of questions. It has been a while since I’ve written a blog of this type, largely because of the impact of the Coronavirus, the plethora of mini-budgets and the suspension of...
by David Jones | Jan 1, 2021 | Accounts, Business Tax, Corona Virus, Self Assessment
In early December, all of the leading accountancy bodies the ACCA, CIOT, AAT, ICAEW and ICAS, put a joint submission to HMRC, asking them to ease the self-assessment deadline due to the Covid-19 workload pressures that all accountants are under. Responding to the...
by David Jones | May 14, 2020 | Accounts, Corona Virus
On Wednesday, the Chancellor said: “It is now very likely that the UK economy will face a significant recession this year, and we’re already in the middle of that as we speak.” The 2% first-quarter record fall was driven by the coronavirus forcing...
by David Jones | Oct 31, 2019 | Accounts, Business Tax, Opinion, Self Assessment
It has been several weeks since last shared with you tax related questions from my in-box, so today I’ve selected a number of the questions received that I hope you will find interesting. The Topics today: It’s all Greek to me! Can I claim for a tax deduction for...
by David Jones | Apr 11, 2019 | Accounts, Business Regulation, Business Tax, Personal Finance, Personal Tax Planning, Self Assessment
The new 2019/20 Tax Year started last week and as usual there are a number of changes, which may well affect you. In most years these changes would be plastered all over the TV news or the newspapers, but unfortunately at the moment the press appears to be obsessed...