Tips & Advice

Tax implications of the annual Christmas do? Surely not… sadly yes! Read this article to find out more.

Some useful tips to help you put some of the more common types of figures on to your tax return.

What are payments on account? When, how and why do you have to pay them? Find out more here.

Not sure if you need to file a tax return? Or what dates it should cover, or figures it should include? Or how to register with HM Revenue online? Read on to find out more.

Some of you will already have seen this, but others have asked if we could post the video of the talk I gave at the Future of Web Apps Roadshow in Edinbugh, so here it is.

Tax tips and advice for freelancers and professional contractors.

Choosing a bank account for your small business is an important stage in the startup process.

There is little doubt that contracting or freelancing has advantages over being employed. Firstly you have flexibility, a choice of contracts to undertake, control over what periods you do and don’t work and the decision of how much you earn.

If you have a child that is cared for by a nursery, crèche, after school club or registered child minder,
you may be able to save tax by issuing Childcare Vouchers.

The announcement by the Chancellor Alistair Darling about the changes to the personal allowance and the basic rate tax band for 2008/09 took HMRC by surprise as much as everyone else. It has taken a few months to work out how to tweak the PAYE system so everyone pays the right amount of tax in 2008/09.