Selling up? What next?
24th March 2016
So, you’re looking to sell your business – but what next? You’ve spent years building a successful business and now you’ve decided to sell. Soon you will be counting your millions, but what...
Money matters, whether you’re making it, borrowing it, or investing it. Understanding the financial risks, possible investments and current market is an important process for each and every business owner. Read more from the experts in the financial sector and benefit from their expertise and guidance here.
Next generation find inheritance tax alive and well
24th March 2016
A Budget that puts the next generation first - proclaimed The Chancellor. Sadly this didn’t mean the scrapping of Inheritance Tax (IHT) or even any reductions in the tax. So it seems for now the...
New rules for external finance
24th March 2016
ENTREPRENEURS’ relief provides a 10 per cent tax rate on the first £10m of capital gains on the sale of a trading company for directors or employees that own over five per cent of the...
Announcements will please entrepreneurs
24th March 2016
THERE were a number of positive announcements on Capital Gains Tax (CGT) which will please investors and entrepreneurs. The headline grabbing announcement was the reduction of the higher rate of CGT...
A Budget for owner managers
24th March 2016
Nigel Syson, Head of Corporate Tax for Haines Watts East gives his overview of the recent budget and how it will impact owner-managed businesses GEORGE Osborne’s eighth budget was essentially...
Support – but there’s a difficult road ahead
24th March 2016
ALTHOUGH the big announcements in the Chancellor’s budget were the revisions to the UK’s growth forecasts and a new tax on sugary drinks, there are some significant changes on the way which will...
Not a good time for landlords
24th March 2016
THE last six months have not been a good time for individual landlords from a tax...
To audit or not to audit, that is the question
21st February 2016
AS expected, the audit exemption threshold has increased despite some fairly strong opinions against the rise from the accounting profession and financiers alike. For owner-managed businesses...
Time running out to pursue rogue directors
1st February 2016
ROGUE directors and bankrupts received an early Christmas present on the 17 December 2015 when Lord Faulks QC, Minister of State for Civil Justice, announced that from?April 2016 the way that...
Important changes ahead
1st February 2016
OVER the last three years corporate recovery and insolvency has been very quiet. I appreciate not many people will be too disappointed by this news, however during the same period we have seen an...
Pensions – important to act now in order to maximise tax relief
25th January 2016
IT is arguably more important than ever to maximise the available tax relief on pension...
When the excuses have to stop
31st December 2015
CAN a debtor keep trotting out the same old story? On 26 November 2015, the High Court (Harvey v Dunbar Assets Plc) heard an application to set aside a statutory demand. A statutory demand (in both...
Feel the force
31st December 2015
UNLIKE the new Star Wars movie, it is unclear as yet whether the “financial force” generated by the new pension freedoms will ultimately be a force for good, enabling investors to access their...
Fundamentals of achieving a successful audit
16th November 2015
SOCIAL media has fundamentally changed the way organisations across the world communicate and interact with their customers and it is important that all businesses keep up with the developments to...
Relief rule to change again
16th October 2015
LANDLORDS of residential property may have found they have paid more tax following the April 2013 abolition of the ‘renewals basis’ for claiming relief on certain furniture and fittings. For...