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Tax Diary May/June 2022

1 May 2022 – Due date for corporation tax due for the year ended 30 July 2021. 19 May 2022 – PAYE and NIC deductions due for month ended 5 May 2022. (If you pay your tax electronically the due date is 22 May 2022). 19 May 2022 – Filing

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Free webinar Time Your Most Valuable Asset

Are you using your time productively and efficiently? Do you need help with  time management? Haven't got time to attend this webinar? Then maybe you should! You will gain useful time insights and ideas for better business results, with less stress What is one hour of your time actually worth?

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Dividends hit by NIC increase

Dividends are a distribution of company profits to shareholders. Historically, they have been taxed as unearned income – no National Insurance deductions. This is still the case, but the Treasury have decided that the recent increase of 1.25% in National Insurance rates will also apply to dividends. Since April 2016,

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Employment Allowance increase

The Employment Allowance has risen from £4,000 to £5,000 – meaning smaller firms will be able to claim up to £5,000 off their employer National Insurance Contributions (NICs) bills. Announced by the Chancellor at last month’s Spring Statement to reduce employment costs, the change takes an extra 50,000 firms out

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Tax planning 2022-23

Planning to save tax may seem like a luxury buy in these days of rising prices and recovering from COVID fallout. And yet tax planning is of real value in these uncertain times. Whether your income and profits are increasing or reducing, there will be tax consequences. And unfortunately, to

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Rising prices – inflation and the background

We are all feeling the effects of inflation, increasing energy, fuel and the price of basic foodstuffs affect us all. The Government Actuary’s Department has posted a blog article recently – Inflation, its personal – written by Christopher Ward, Actuary. The article provides a useful update on the scope and

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Reorganising company structures to save tax

When corporation tax increases from 1 April 2023, companies will need to consider three scenarios: From 1 April 2023: The main corporation tax rate is increased to 25% where profits are over the upper profits limit, set at £250,000. A small profits rate will apply for companies whose profits are

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The value of objectivity

Many business owners feel qualified to act on their subjective conclusions. Where these conclusions are key to the continuing success of the business this internal process opens up the possibility of failure – what if you have failed to consider all the possible risks? As individuals, we can only grapple

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Planning for the unexpected

How do we plan for the unpredictability that is a recurring feature of our business lives? Brexit, COVID-19, and now the war in Ukraine, all conspire to create trading conditions that can best be described as chaotic. Present challenges include increasing energy and commodity prices, both of which are forcing

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Saving to meet future tax payments

Whether you are self-employed or run your business through a company, the profits you produce are subject to tax less any reliefs for past losses or investments in assets that qualify for tax relief. As most accounts software packages do not allow for these tax liabilities on a month-by-month basis,

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