Shareholder Agreements

By Gary Robinson / January 19, 2025

Shareholders Agreement    For limited companies, when it comes to making decisions, Company Law states shareholders who own more than 50% can pass a motion at a company meeting regardless of the views of other shareholders and if a shareholder(s) owns 75% or more of the shares they, control the company outright and can veto the…

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Claiming Rollover relief

By Gary Robinson / January 11, 2025

Rollover Relief When capital gains tax was introduced in 1965, it was recognised that where a person sells an asset used in a business and buys a new asset, tax would be due on any gain arising on the sale, but there may not be any sales proceeds left over to pay that tax. To…

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Tax Update

By Gary Robinson / December 21, 2024

Pensions to lose IHT exemption At the Autumn Budget the Chancellor announced plans to remove the exemption which allows unused pension funds to be inherited tax free. Currently, if a pension holder dies before the age of 75 their beneficiaries can generally inherit the remaining funds tax-free, whether as a lump sum or as income.…

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Reviewing your Software

By Gary Robinson / December 14, 2024

Software As we move more into the digital age, we are more reliant on software and the efficiencies that this has to help us to grow and even scale a business. When to review this It is important to review this on at least an annual basis to make sure that the software itself is…

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Rent a Room

By Gary Robinson / November 16, 2024

As hundreds of homeowners rent out their rooms and houses during the sporting events such as Wimbledon tennis championships, for up to £15,000 a week, it is important to pay the right tax to avoid penalties. This year’s tournament is seeing a very buoyant market with houses renting at up to £15,000 a week, four-to-five-bedroom…

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Double Cab Pickups

By Gary Robinson / November 9, 2024

Labour has ‘revisited the fiasco from eight months ago’ by making double cab pick up trucks taxable as personal vehicles when having a payload of more than one tonne After mass uproar caused by the Conservatives earlier this year when changing double cab pick up trucks to being treated as personal vehicles for tax purposes…

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Companies House Fines

By Gary Robinson / November 2, 2024

Companies House will start issuing fines of maximum £2,000 for repeat offenders for failures to comply with registration rules as part of a sweeping crackdown on abuse of the register The new powers are a key plank of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023, which introduced tough new laws to fight corruption, money…

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Registering for Self-employment

By Gary Robinson / October 19, 2024

Registering for Self-employment Once you have made the step of deciding to go self-employed once of the first things you need to do is to register with HM Revenue & Customs. Registering for tax is an essential step in becoming a sole trader. It ensures that you are compliant with the law and can accurately…

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Attracting the Talent in your Company

By Gary Robinson / October 12, 2024

Recruiting new employees is tough just now so be different! For example, some employers are now offering “Wellbeing leave” in addition to the usual holiday package. If you want to recruit more, you have to get serious about the process and be on it 24/7, 365! There are several actions you can take to make…

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Payroll

By Gary Robinson / October 5, 2024

Payroll If you are running a limited company, partnership or a sole reader employing people is the same process and principles. When you need to employee a person you will need to register this first with HM Revenue & Customs (https://www.gov.uk) and then once set up HM Revenue & Customs will send you’re the payroll…

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