Do you have half-completed plans to open an online-shop this year? Even if you have never considered internet trading, could this be an option for 2022? Business owners If you are selling goods, creating a web-based sales platform will vastly expand your reach to willing buyers. Combined with effective social media and other marketing activity […]
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As you will see from the tax diary notes this month, there are two significant tax payment deadlines this month. 1 January 2022 – Companies with a 31 March 2021 year end date will need to settle their Corporation Tax payment on or before this date. 31 January 2022 – Taxpayers who are subject to […]
1 January 2022 – Due date for Corporation Tax due for the year ended 31 March 2021. 19 January 2022 – PAYE and NIC deductions due for month ended 5 January 2022. (If you pay your tax electronically the due date is 22 January 2022). 19 January 2022 – Filing deadline for the CIS300 monthly […]
We are all ‘up to here’ in accommodating COVID-19, and depending on our tolerance levels, this is likely to continue into 2022. There are remote signs that a combination of vaccines and/or anti-viral drugs will eventually arrest the spread of this infection, but we will have to face disruption in economic activity next year and […]
From 15 December 2021, the government is making the following reductions to the grants made available for certain electric vehicle purchases. It will provide grants of up to £1,500 (previously £2,500) for electric cars priced under £32,000. There are currently around 20 models on the market that would qualify for this grant. Support for wheelchair […]
Many individuals and businesses will have been affected by the disruption in electricity supplies due to recent storm damage. Most of the serious damage that disrupted supplies was reconnected fairly quickly, but for many home and business owners, reconnection has become a protracted affair. A recent letter from the Secretary of State for Business to […]
January 2022 is a ‘taxing’ month. It is the last month to file a self-assessment tax return (electronically) for 2020-21 and avoid late filing penalties. It is also a month when significant tax bills may become payable. Companies Companies that have a 31 March 2021 year end will need to pay any corporation tax due […]
A reimbursement of expenditure incurred by an employee in travelling between two or more places of work is not “earnings” and therefore not taxable. This is because the expenditure would be an allowable claim if the employee had paid it out of their remuneration, as he or she would be travelling in the performance of […]
We are fifteen months away from a radical upward lift in corporation tax (CT) rates. From 1 April 2023, there will be two rates of CT: A small profits rate which will stay at the present 19% and will apply to companies with profits up to £50,000. An increased main rate, which will be set […]
Footfall measures the number of times a customer returns to your business to purchase goods and services. Many business owners believe that the most effective way to increase turnover is to win more customers or to charge them more for purchases. Both of these strategies may work to increase sales, but both contain hidden costs. […]