by David Jones | May 26, 2022 | Business Regulation
The Give Aid rules are designed to encourage taxpayers to be more generous but are dotted with conditions and potential snags for both charities and donors. So how do you avoid making a mistake? Gift Aid: Basic rules Under the Gift Aid scheme, charities can reclaim...
by David Jones | May 19, 2022 | Business Regulation, Business Start-up, Business Tax, Opinion, Payroll Services, Tax Investigations
Before I go into the detail of this case, I think it helpful if I explain exactly what long-firm fraud is. Action Fraud, the UK’s national reporting centre for fraud, defines long-firm fraud as when dishonest individuals set up what’s an apparently legitimate...
by David Jones | Apr 21, 2022 | Business Regulation, Opinion, Payroll Services, Self Assessment, Tax Investigations
As there hasn’t been a lot happening in the world of tax or at HMRC over the last couple of weeks, I thought you might find some of the recent questions asked by clients and readers of the Blog, of interest and hopefully of some help. This week’s selection: Can I...
by David Jones | Mar 24, 2022 | Business Regulation, Opinion, Self Assessment
Imminent Companies House reforms will significantly improve the battle against economic crime and rich individuals’ ability to hide their (often illegal) assets, but micro and small companies will now have to file a full set of accounts, including a detailed profit...
by David Jones | Oct 28, 2021 | Business Regulation, Self Assessment, VAT
Rather than my customary Blog on the recent Budget, I thought that I’d wait a few days until all the small print has been published, as to quote Ludwig Van Der Rohe ‘The devil is in the details’. So, as it’s been three months since I last...
by David Jones | Jul 22, 2021 | Business Regulation, Business Start-up, Business Tax, Personal Finance, Self Assessment
As it’s been three months since I last posted a Blog on the many questions asked by correspondents to our website and by existing clients, I thought it time to share with you a handful of the more interesting questions I’ve received in recent weeks, which...