Blog12th May 2021Succession Planning for Family BusinessesFamily businesses come in all sorts of guises, with varying internal challenges and external market forces. But one thing they all have in common is that eventually someone else will need to take the reins. While it’s possible that the business could be…View more
Blog7th May 2021Income Tax Reporting and the Digital EraMaking Tax Digital (“MTD”) for Income Tax has been talked about for many years now. The idea that the tax return process can be completed by third parties providing all relevant information to HMRC is still a long way off,…View more
Blog7th May 2021Is there a penalty in getting your claim for R&D Tax Relief Wrong?At this time when many companies are looking for some additional cash, far more have been looking at R&D tax relief and being more open to consider whether their activities qualify as innovative enough to justify a claim.View more
Blog6th May 2021The Scottish Public Sector – What next after the Scottish Elections?Against the backdrop of a post-Brexit and post-Pandemic landscape, the 2021 Scottish Elections have taken on a very different emphasis. Looking at the manifestos of the five main political parties, not unsurprisingly, in addition to the inevitable consideration of Scotland’s…View more
Blog5th May 2021Deals+ Energy Deals Done in the UK Q1 2021As featured in Energy Voice, Anderson Anderson & Brown Corporate Finance (“AABcf”) is delighted to share with you our quarterly Deals+ update for Q1 2021, highlighting selected Energy M&A and Fundraising transactions across the UK.View more
Blog4th May 2021One third of Scottish taxpayers are unaware of tax changes made by the Scottish Parliament6 April 2021 signalled the start of another new tax year. Perhaps an appropriate time therefore to reflect on a recent review of awareness amongst Scottish taxpayers which found that 33% of those surveyed were unaware that the Scottish Parliament…View more
Blog29th Apr 2021Reverse Charge for Construction Services – Some early complexitiesFollowing the introduction of the domestic reverse charge for construction services on 1 March 2021, many construction businesses will be preparing their first VAT returns under the new regime. From our experience of advising construction clients, what appears to be…View more
Blog28th Apr 2021Investment themes in clean energy and cleaner energyAs we prepare for COP26 in Glasgow later this year, an awareness of how the UK can be a role model for positive change and soft global influence is becoming discussed more and more. For companies in the Energy sector…View more
Blog27th Apr 2021Restructuring positives for 2021 and beyondA year ago, we were trying to consider the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic when it first fully hit the UK and we were very much still trying to get our heads round new terms, new schemes, new support…View more
Blog22nd Apr 2021Hybrid Working at AABAt AAB we’re always looking to progress both to enhance our awesome client experience and provide a platform for our people which reflects this. The latest changes follow discussions and feedback from the team around working policies in ‘the next…View more
Blog20th Apr 2021Funding scale-up tech businessesThe quantity and quality of scale-up technology businesses continues to increase in Scotland with technology incubators such as ONE in Aberdeen, Codebase in Edinburgh and Stirling and universities such as Heriot Watt, Napier and Strathclyde providing a clear pathway for entrepreneurs to…View more
Blog19th Apr 2021HMRC seek views on closing the “International Tax Gap”Statistics suggest that the UK tax gap, ie the difference between the amount of tax that should, in theory, be paid to HMRC, and what is actually paid, fell to the lowest rate on record for the 2018/19 tax year…View more