Breathing space
31st March 2017
RESPONDING to business rate changes - the top campaign priority for Chambers of Commerce at the Spring Budget - Paul Griffiths, Chief Executive of Northamptonshire Chamber, said that businesses...
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Acquisition assistance
1st March 2017
NORTHAMPTON-based print solutions business Eclipse Web Limited has been acquired by marketing communications group GI Solutions in a deal supported by leading financial and business advisers Grant...
Government response to consultations
1st March 2017
THE government has published its responses to the six consultations on making tax digital (MTD). In response to the consultations the government have decided the following: - businesses will be able...
How technology may impact the charity sector
1st March 2017
AS a firm, Hawsons have been looking at some of the ways in which technology may affect the charity sector over the next 12 months and how that may impact on charities' own risk management...
Further growth to VAT team
1st March 2017
LEADING firm of accountants, tax and business advisers, MHA MacIntyre Hudson, is delighted to announce further growth in its VAT team with the arrival of Glyn Edwards who has been appointed as a VAT...
Buy-to-let landlords may see earnings hit
1st March 2017
By Tim Woodgates IN the Budget 2016, the government announced changes to the level of tax relief that can be obtained from mortgage interest costs in relation to residential property lettings....
BRIdge building – looking for a win-win
1st February 2017
TWO friends fell out. Money had been loaned from one to the other and their joint business venture had failed with losses suffered by the lender only. Where once there had been friendship, hope and...
Will 2017 be as kind to investment markets as 2016?
1st February 2017
WITH the year of political astonishments now behind us, investors are attempting to identify the potential pitfalls financial markets may encounter over the next twelve months. Although we are...
Delighted with Top 100 place for another year
1st February 2017
FORTITUDE Financial Planning is delighted to be included as one of the New Model Adviser? Top 100 firms for the third year in succession. The editor, Will Robbins, said: "As with last year, our...
Inflation offers food for thought
1st February 2017
Despite consumer price inflation (CPI) rising significantly by 1.2 per cent for the year to November, up from 0.9 per cent on the previous month, F&B was the only one of the 12 categories that...
Business owners pushed to breaking point
1st February 2017
NEARLY a third (29 per cent) of company owners in the county completely lose motivation to continue running their business at least once a year, according to a new study by Top 12 UK chartered...
Care sector review – what does the future hold?
1st February 2017
THROUGHOUT 2016, the care sector continued to be challenging for operators, with staffing shortages in nursing care, continued funding pressures from local authorities and rising wage costs. Yet the...
Brexit – what now?
1st February 2017
THERESA May's declaration that the UK is to leave the single market brings with it a whole host of VAT and customs duty challenges which we recommend that businesses start planning for now, as there...
Corporate finance firm secures major deal
1st February 2017
A NORTHAMPTON firm of corporate finance specialists has sealed a major acquisition deal for a leading UK wayfinding company and a multi-award winning international architecture and design group....
A taxing time for pensions?
4th January 2017
NOVEMBER saw the Autumn Statement delivered for the first (and last) time by the Chancellor Philip Hammond (next year will see two Budgets, with this then becoming a Spring Statement and Autumn Budget...