Reducing your business’s energy costs

What can you do to reduce your energy costs? Energy prices are soaring; however, you can’t start reducing your energy costs if you don’t know where you are currently spending money on energy in your business. To start, you need to conduct an energy audit. The purpose...

Penalties for careless and deliberate errors

As well as charging interest on tax paid late, HMRC may also levy a penalty where there is an error in a tax return. These penalties may be judged as careless or deliberate and the level of penalty will also depend upon whether or not; the taxpayer has been upfront,...

Will there be a mini budget on the 23rd of March?

  Whilst most of us were wrapping our Christmas presents on 23 December 2021, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, commissioned the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) to produce an economic and fiscal forecast for Wednesday 23 March 2022. The main Budget...

Things to be aware of this New Year..

In his Spring 2021 Budget the Chancellor announced that there would be 8 “Freeports” in England with generous tax breaks to encourage businesses to set up and invest in those areas. The devolved governments will also be announcing locations in Scotland, Wales and...

What you need to know this December

Many were expecting the chancellor to announce changes to inheritance tax (IHT) in his Autumn Budget, However, like capital gains tax (CGT), the rules have remained broadly the same as last year. That means that each tax year individuals may make gifts of up to £3,000...