Publications
We have put together a series of useful Business Guides, available to download.
Company Bonus or Dividend?
In many small companies, the owners are also the directors, and this gives importance to how income is extracted from the company. Important The declaration of a dividend has for many years been a strategy adopted by many small businesses. Traditionally, small...
Inheritance Tax Planning
Planning to minimise the liability to IHT is a team effort involving you and your professional adviser. To enable long-term planning to be set in place, it is important to carefully consider your planning options before making decisions about your financial planning...
Tax Planning for You and Your Family
What are your planning objectives? Key financial planning goals include: Making the most of your tax-free allowances Keeping your marginal tax rates as low as possible Maintaining a spread between your income and capital. Remember that all tax planning must: Save tax...
Real Time Information
Real Time Information (RTI) is the system employed by HMRC for the reporting of payroll information, which requires employers and pension providers to provide detailed information to HMRC every time employees are paid. Under RTI, the employer is required to submit...
Proving your Credentials to Investors
People don't invest in ideas: they invest in people. You can have the world's best business plan with a truly original idea that is guaranteed to make a fortune, but you could fail to attract investment if the people behind the idea do not inspire confidence. Finding...
Initial Costs of Starting in Business
No business is the same as another even if the product or service is similar. If you are starting in business it is important to avoid the pitfall of underestimating your start up costs. Startup costs are limited to expenditure incurred before you are ready for...
Setting Employee Pay
Every employer knows just how important wages are to recruiting and keeping good employees. So how best to go about setting rates of pay? There are three important factors to consider when it comes to establishing the rate at which a business pays its employees. Rates...
Increasing your Cashflow
We are all aware of the importance of maintaining a positive cashflow from month to month if we are to avoid a liquidity crisis and all the misery that entails. But there is a lot more to cashflow management than simply avoiding crises. Actively striving to increase...
How to Increase your Profit
In business, your profits are your reward for your endeavours. In fact, profitability is the only reliable measurement of a business' success. Profits are the very lifeblood of a business. They fuel growth, support the owners, provide for the well-being of the staff,...
Family Trusts
A trust (settlement) arises when a person (the settlor) transfers assets to trustees, who hold the assets for the benefit of one or more persons (the beneficiaries), who will receive income and/or capital from the trust. The income tax position Income received by the...
Digital Accounting
Making Tax Digital (MTD) will see most businesses and taxpayers accessing their tax affairs online through digital tax accounts from 2020 onwards. It will replace the self-assessed tax return with a new quarterly digital reporting regime and change: how you or your...
Tax Planning for Businesses
Getting started If you are thinking of starting a business, you should consider, among other factors: the nature of the business, the demand for the service or product, the state of the economy, the availability of suitable funding, your break-even, the profit...
