Recent Accountancy Related Articles
18.02.2010
HMRC must reform default surcharge regime
Following the onset of the recession, the Chancellor gave an undertaking that HM Revenue & Customs would take a more accommodating approach to businesses that genuinely had difficulty in making their tax payments on time.
16.02.2010
R&D tax credits benefit technology businesses more than any other single government initiative, finds James Cowper technology survey
A survey of over 1300 technology companies in and around the Thames Valley has found that of all the government initiatives to help the sector through the recession it is the R&D tax credit that has been of most assistance.
08.02.2010
How honest and brave will Alastair Darling be?
Speculation is rife as to whether Gordon Brown will go to the country in March this year rather than wait until the last possible date in June.
26.01.2010
No more Lennartz for charities?
Lennartz is the mechanism that has enabled charities to recover all their VAT upfront on capital projects even where they intend to use an asset partly for “non-business” activities, provided there will be business use.
12.01.2010
Exits for a Technology Business
Technology is one of the most important sectors of the economy in the Thames Valley with tens of thousands of people engaged in this market across the region.
01.12.2009
The Strategy for Growth of a Technology Business
Technology businesses typically tend to develop very rapidly (providing they have the access to the funding to enable them to do so!). This development will come under a number of different heads
01.11.2009
Starting up your Technology business
Technology is one of the most important sectors of the economy in the Thames Valley with tens of thousands of people engaged in this market across the region.
01.09.2009
Planning for retirement
These are difficult times for pension scheme members and employers which fund the schemes. Recent surveys have revealed that the black hole in private company final salary schemes now exceeds £1 trillion, and that almost a quarter of employees aged over 55 now expect they will have to work beyond the state pension age of 65.
28.08.2009
VAT place of supplier rule change
As you know, the rules on place of supply are changing from 1 January 2010 .
04.08.2009
Hospital Consultants at risk from HMRC
Our tax investigation insurance providers have made us aware that a number of Hospital Consultants are being investigated by HMRC.
10.06.2009
Thames Valley company directors and business owners delay retirement plans
James Cowper, currently engaged as administrators of a major automotive components company in Wales, has surveyed 1,000 company directors, clients and friends of the firm for their views on how the recession is affecting them.
03.01.2009
We start the New Year with many business people wondering what 2009 will bring in terms of markets, finance and economic confidence.