30 May 2018 | Firm News, Contractors and IR35
After recent IR35 cases have been decided, certainly Christa Ackroyd Media Limited, it has been suggested in the media and in articles that perhaps the contract should have been written in a better way. It has also been suggested that perhaps had Christa Ackroyd had...
23 May 2018 | Firm News, Corporate Finance, Efficient Reward Strategies
For many years accountants have advised owner managers to adopt a reward structure of low salary/high dividend when they are operating through a limited company. This nostrum has had a consequent influence on the valuations when we have to value a minority interest in...
18 May 2018 | Firm News, Personal Tax Planning, Property Services
There have been quite a few changes to the taxation of rental income and rental properties in the past few years – removal of “Wear & Tear” allowance, restriction of relief for loan interest, increased exposure to Stamp Duty Land Tax, extra Capital Gains Tax. And...
14 May 2018 | Firm News, Management Accounts, Rescue, recovery and turnaround
(This is a summary of an actual case. The names and details have been changed slightly to protect the offending parties.) B Ltd was a relatively young metal fabrication company, set up by an entrepreneurial character (let’s call him Richard B) who saw a gap in the...
9 May 2018 | Firm News, Corporate Finance
When I produce the Company Accounts, I often produce graphs of various ratios to discuss at the meeting, some of which would feature in the reports produced by Dun & Bradstreet, Credit Safe and Experian. Often these show a figure off trend and I might tell the...