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Lisa Greenwood – Spring Budget 2024 comments
Vote winner or vote loser for the Conservatives? With this being the last budget before the next general election, I was expecting the Chancellor to announce changes aimed at winning votes rather than tackling the fiscal issues that we currently have. Overall, I feel...
Mike Carabine – Spring Budget 2024 comments
Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics... Just a couple of minutes into Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget 2024 speech, Benjamin Disraeli’s/Mark Twain’s title quote came careering into my mind. Listening to him reeling off the Tory ‘achievements’ since he and Rishi had taken...
Lucy Orrow – Spring Budget 2024 comments
As with any Budget in the modern era, the headlines are generally leaked before the event and the Chancellor was left to fill in the blanks as I sat and watched Spring Budget 2024 this afternoon. For taxpayers, there were any number of points to grab hold of, which...
Year end tax planning 2023/24
How can Lambert Chapman LLP help you with tax planning in the next few weeks to ensure that you are maximising your position for the year-end and coming year? As the current tax year is heading to a close, at Lambert Chapman LLP, we like to consider the upcoming...
Case Study – cloud accounting solutions
When it comes to cloud accounting solutions, there isn’t much that Partner Mark Pearson doesn’t know. Mark was recently approached by a client in the construction industry who was having issues keeping on top of all the paperwork that comes with building new...
High Earner Tax Returns
We have been aware for some time that in the current year, 2023/24, individuals with income taxed under PAYE (so employees in the main) whose salary and benefits do not exceed £150,000, will no longer be required to submit Self Assessment Tax Returns. This is good...
Our Opening Hours over the Festive Period 2023/24
With Christmas fast approaching, here are the Lambert Chapman LLP office opening hours for the festive period: Friday December 22nd 2023 Office closed from 1pm Monday December 25th 2023 CLOSED Tuesday December 26th 2023 CLOSED Wednesday December 27th 2023 CLOSED...
Christmas gifts to staff – what are the rules on tax?
As I got into my car this morning to head into our Shoreditch office, I could not quite believe what I was hearing - the Christmas music has started already! This got me thinking about the festive season ahead and I was inspired to write my next website article - a...
Autumn Statement reaction from Sean Wiegand
I watched Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement today - there was a bit of good news for everyone I thought. There was certainly a more optimistic feel with this speech compared to last year’s Autumn Statement. He mentioned the headline inflation falling from 11.1% to 4.6%...
Autumn Statement reaction from Mark Pearson
This years Autumn statement hopefully won’t be a repeat of last years mini-budget delivered in September 2022. The past year has been a year of challenges for both individuals and businesses in the UK. This Autumn Statement comes with a general election fast...
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