HMRC offer live webinars that will help to provide an understanding of key taxes that affect self-employed people, and also help...

Improve your problem-solving skills... Critical thinking is a way of ensuring objective and efficient problem-solving; which can help to...

The Department for Transport (DfT) has launched a new fund to help small to medium-sized businesses to develop greener and more efficient...

The UK Government has announced a six-month extension to alcohol duty rates freeze The current alcohol duty freeze was expected to come...

HMRC has published draft guidance ahead of the implementation of reforms to the Research and Development (R&D) tax reliefs on 1 April...

As Lucius Anneus Seneca said, "If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable." To us, this means that it is...

Help to Grow: Digital is a UK-wide scheme to help small and medium-sized businesses adopt digital technologies proven to increase...

The Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, has announced that the Spring Budget 2023 will take place on Wednesday 15 March. In his statement, he said:...

The mandatory use of software for Making Tax Digital for Income Tax Self-Assessment is being phased in from April 2026. Making Tax...

The term VUCA stands for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity and was first coined in the early 1990s. It was initially...

At last year's Ribble Valley Business Awards, we were over the moon to be one of 3 shortlisted businesses up for the Family Business...

It was recently announced that projects that tackle some of the greatest threats to trees and forests will get government funding. This...

In the run up to the festive period we’re often asked how to treat staff gifts and Christmas parties, and what exemptions there are....

The current default VAT surcharge system - which doesn’t differentiate between late return and late payment (it’s the same penalty for...

Innovate UK has launched a competition (closing date 21st December) which will invest up to £1 million in innovation projects to improve...

No sooner than we share tax news… more U-turns are announced. So, whilst we will continue to keep you informed, it is hard to know...

Despite the PM insisting (only yesterday) that there would be no abandonment of policy, this morning Kwasi Kwarteng has said the...

Last Friday, The Chancellor delivered his mini-budget to the House of Commons. It was described as ‘mini’ but, in fact, a number of...

A sim-swap scam (when someone gains control of your phone number) can happen if a criminal obtains enough information to pose as you and...

Following the review of R&D tax reliefs announced by the chancellor in his 2021 Budget, the government have finally released updated...