Scotland Level Zero With the move to Level Zero this week Scottish businesses are still being advised to work from home where possible. Originally Level 0 contained a phased return to offices but the First Minister announced that this would be postponed due to the high levels of the virus in circulation. This is clearly
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Forecasting The Future With Xero Analytics Plus Xero have just announced a powerful new tool called Xero Analytics Plus, which is available from today. Analytics Plus is the next evolution of the existing short-term cash flow and business snapshot features with greater customisation and more accurate projections. As part of this release Xero have updated
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There are new Corporation Tax rules coming in April 2023 with a gotcha for people who have related businesses. A 25% rate of corporation tax will apply to all of a company’s profits if they exceed £250,000 from 1 April 2023. The 19% rate will continue to apply where profits are below £50,000. The
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The “off-payroll” IR35 working rules that apply to certain workers supplying their services to clients via their own personal service companies start from 6 April 2021. These rules were already been in place in the public sector but now apply to the private sector as well. Under this new regime end user businesses will be
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With only a month to go there is still time to save some tax with some end of year tax planning. Here are some ideas: Use your spouse’s personal allowance If your spouse is a lower rate or non-taxpayer, it’s possible for them to transfer 20% of their unused personal allowance to their spouse
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When your year end is approaching it’s important to take the opportunity to think about any actions you need to take to manage your tax bill. Many of these actions actually need the transactions to be carried out before the end date and can’t be backdated. Some of these actions have cash flow and balance
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As we mentioned in our budget blog post the 5% VAT rate that was brought in in 2020 is going to be extended. The broad details are: The temporary reduced rate of VAT of 5% will be extended until 30 September 2021 There will be a new rate of 12.5% from 1 October 2021 to
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INTRODUCTION The Chancellor’s second real budget on the 3rd of March made some important business announcements to try and mitigate the effects of the pandemic and also to start rebuilding the nation’s finances for the future. Below we list some of the most important announcements that will affect individuals and small businesses in Scotland. The
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The day after Boris Johnson outlined a roadmap out of Covid restrictions for England Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has laid out the beginnings of a roadmap to ease Covid-19 restrictions from April. Like Johnson, Sturgeon is focusing on data rather than dates, but is taking a more cautious approach than the PM. She is
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We often get asked whether buying residential letting property through a Limited Company is a good idea. The answer to that is…. It depends! In order to give decent advice we would need to know the circumstances of the person doing the buying and their long term intentions. However what we can do here
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