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Blog31st Jan 2019

Act now – whilst there’s no leaves on the trees…

We’ve all done it, sat in conferences, listening to inspiring keynotes, making notes about things you know will change how you work, how happy and motivated your workforce will be, how much money you’ll make etc etc. Back at the…

Blog30th Jan 2019

Tag, Like or Share Your Employment Away

Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, WhatsApp – what happened to the days when life was just a landline and the only photos you got were from the chemist?  Now employers are entering into a world of never ending realms of extensions to…

Blog18th Jan 2019

Undocumented Expenses – Could this become a costly expense for your business?

In the vast majority of businesses, employees will incur business costs themselves that they go on to claim back from their employer via an expense claim process. Whether the reimbursement is  liable for income tax and National Insurance (NIC) should …

Blog17th Jan 2019

Have You Reduced the Gender Pay Gap & Understood Why… Or Why Not?

The Gender Pay Gap was a topic we heard plenty about in 2018 when over 10,500 companies publicly reported their figures for the first time. Whilst there were many facts found in these reports, overall they showed that, on average,…

Blog16th Jan 2019

International Tax training course

AAB’s Training Team have developed a course providing an overview of the direct and indirect tax considerations when trading overseas. The international tax course will highlight opportunities and value adding actions as well as identify any traps and pitfalls when…

Blog15th Jan 2019

VAT and the Social Housing Sector

We look at some of the key VAT issues and proposed changes that impact housing associations.

Blog14th Jan 2019

UK Property – Important taxation changes on the way

Budget 2018 delivered by Chancellor Philip Hammond confirmed some significant changes to the taxation of property disposals by individuals. In essence, there will be additional reporting requirements out with the usual Self Assessment tax return and further restrictions are to…

Blog10th Jan 2019

How can cloud accounting impact your dental practice?

Over the past few years, the shift towards practices now maintaining their financials on a cloud-based accounting platform has been evident, with many accountants demonstrating the significant benefits to be achieved by the efficiencies of practices automating their basic bookkeeping…

Blog9th Jan 2019

Scale Rate Payments: What Scale of Checking is Required?

Where an employer reimburses employees set amounts of cash to pay for business expenses like travel and meals, these are known as scale rate payments.  HMRC publish advisory benchmark scale rate payments that can be paid in relation to qualifying…

Blog20th Dec 2018

Are you growing internationally?  Don’t forget structuring!

When contracting for work overseas, ensuring companies are aware of the potential taxes they will be faced with is of critical importance, so they can build a contract price which factors in as much additional tax and compliance costs which…

Blog19th Dec 2018

Learn to give feedback in real time

The problem with a classic appraisal is that it can often be backward looking. Let’s say you schedule it every six months. It can be demoralising and time-consuming to go over old ground and then file a report…that in reality…

By Alix Baird

Blog18th Dec 2018

Non Resident UK Directors – Are you compliant?

Are you a UK business with overseas based directors? Are you aware of the compliance obligations?