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Harnett Accountants Kingston – Minister Says Cash in Hand is Morally Wrong

Harnett Accountants Kingston brings you this report from the BBC Business News website: “Treasury minister David Gauke has said it is “morally wrong” to pay tradesmen such as plumbers, builders and cleaners in cash in the hope of avoiding tax. He argued the practice came at “a big cost” to the Treasury and meant other […]

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Harnett Accountants Putney – Government Plans To Unite SME incentives

Harnett Accountants Putney brings you this report from the Accountancy Age website, revealing new government plans to provide help for SME’s and startups under one centrally managed scheme. “HELP FOR SMEs should be more easily accessible and under the umbrella of one organisation according to ICAEW chief executive Michael Izza. As things stand, applying for […]

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Harnett Accountants Kensington – IR35 And Visits From The Taxman

Harnett Accountants Kensington are pleased to present more useful tax tips for your business IR35 Business Tests Released If you provide services through your own personal service company you will be aware of the tax law known as IR35. This tax rule imposes an extra charge on your company, if you would be treated as […]

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Harnett Accountants Hammersmith – September Tax Q&A Part 2

Harnett Accountants Hammersmith Welcome you to part 2 of our monthly tax Q&A. Q. My business recently bought an e-book reader from an online retailer. It will be used for business purposes but the retailer is refusing to provide me with a VAT invoice, saying their products are not provided for business purposes, so VAT […]

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Harnett Accountants Hammersmith – Gifting Assets and Shares

Harnett Accountants Hammersmith brings you another useful piece of tax saving advice. If you plan to gift assets or shares to your relatives, there are several taxes you need to consider: Capital Gains Tax You won’t make an actual profit or gain when you give away assets or shares, so you may not expect to […]

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Harnett Accountants Hammersmith – Whose Fault Is Underpaid Tax?

Here’s another useful tax tip from Harnett Accountants Hammersmith: Have you received a tax calculation (on form P800) which shows you owe tax that you thought had been collected under PAYE? Every year the Tax Office undertakes a ‘PAYE reconciliation’ to check whether the tax collected from pensions and salary under PAYE was the correct […]

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Harnett Accountants Twickenham – Child Benefit Clawback

Harnett Accountants Twickenham present another useful tax tip about changes to child benefits in force from next year: If your net taxable income last year was £50,000 or more you will shortly receive a letter from the Tax Office about child benefit. You can safely bin this missive if your children are no longer eligible […]

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Harnett Accountants Twickenham – VAT Reclaim Cases Will Cost Taxman Billions

Harnett Accountants Twickenham bring you this report from Accountancy Age, revealing how VAT claims going back as far as 1973 are now going through the European courts, and could see the taxman repaying tens of billions in repayments: “THE COURTS are presumably growing tired of VAT reclaims cases now. At least, if they aren’t, they […]

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Harnett Accountants Twickenham – Mortgage Slowdown Continues

Harnett Accountants Twickenham brings you this report from the BBC Business News website, showing that the number of mortgages being given by banks is still shrinking. The findings show that banks are still rationing their funds following the financial crises, however building societies have been seeing a strong revival in this sector. “The number of […]

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Harnett Accountants Richmond – Government Figures Dont Add Up

Harnett Accountants Richmond brings you this interesting article from the business section of the BBC News website. It seems that there is a disparity between the economic growth forecasts and the real published employment figures: “Here’s the statistic that Britain’s finest economic brains simply cannot explain: the number of people in work in the UK […]

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