
Conscious Leadership
Conscious leadership is bringing your whole self, with total awareness, to your role as a business leader. Conscious leadership requires authenticity – to be a conscious leader you must be […]

Diversity and Inclusion – Best Practice
The benefits of a more diverse and inclusive organisation are clear, but how do you actually go about implementing a diversity and inclusion strategy? Businesses are more focused on diversity […]

Gift aid – Beware if your income falls
Where a Gift Aid declaration is made, the recipient charity or community amateur sports club can claim back basic rate tax on the donation. The donation is treated as made […]

Claim expenses for additional costs of working from home
As the 2020/21 tax year draws to a close, many employees will have spent much if not all of the last year working from home. While the tax system enables […]

Business News and Covid-19 updates
Welcome to our round up of the latest business and Covid-19 news for our clients. Please contact us if you want to talk about how these updates affect your business. […]

Personal and family companies – Optimal salary for 2021/22
A popular profit extraction strategy for shareholders in personal and family companies is to pay a small salary and to extract further profits as dividends. The optimal salary will depend […]

Coronavirus job retention scheme (CJRS) Update
The government has published the latest details on the CJRS and here is a summary of recent changes. Calculations Guidance on calculating how much you have to pay your furloughed […]

The Recovery Loan Scheme
The Recovery Loan Scheme supports access to finance for UK businesses as they grow and recover from the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic. Up to £10 million is available per […]

Business interruption insurance – Are pay-outs taxable?
Business interruption insurance provides cover for losses as a result of events that close or severely disrupt the business. Policies may cover a loss of profits that arise as a […]

ATED return and charge for 2021
ATED return and charge for 2021 The annual tax on enveloped dwellings (ATED) is payable where high value residential property is held within an ‘envelope’, such as a limited company. […]

New personal service company rules start this month
The “off-payroll” working rules that apply to certain workers supplying their services to clients via their own personal service companies start from 6 April 2021. Under this new regime end […]

Take advantage of the enhanced carry back of losses
Many businesses have suffered losses as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, and where a business has made a loss, various options are available to obtain relief for that loss. […]