Accounting Practice has some top tips on how you can be – and stay – better connected. Poor broadband speed means millions of UK households are struggling with connectivity, according to new research. Increased internet usage during the pandemic as…
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QE: A licence to print money?
What is quantitative easing? Accounting Practice examines a increasingly popular phenomenon that continues to divide the experts. Quantitative easing (QE) is the creation of new money to facilitate an increase in spending and investment in the economy. More specifically, a…
When it comes down to savings, head East
Roddy Kohn explains why investing in China is a no brainer, given the havoc being wreaked on Western economies by the pandemic. As if the future outlook couldn’t look bleaker, this weekend’s politics help foretell of worse to come. You…
Marriage? Maybe not but it’s a tax thing
Mark McLaughlin points out that staying single could save inheritance tax in certain circumstances. The UK’s tax regime contains various reliefs, exemptions and allowances, some of which are seemingly designed to encourage couples to be married (or in a civil…
The Pandemic Accountant Australia Style
Accountant Paul Meissner shares some of the lessons he has learned while working in lockdown at his home in Victoria, Australia. Greetings fellow lockdowners! This year has thrown everything at us, and with second and third Covid waves hitting across…
Research & Development Claims don’t try to get clever
When it comes to the claiming of research and development reliefs, too many advisers are bending the rules to breaking point, says Andrew Hubbard. Over the past few months I’ve spent a lot of time looking at the current state…
Get ready for the VAT Reverse Charge
The VAT reverse charge for building and construction services will have a huge impact on the sector. Clara Boyd explains why and how. A VAT ‘reverse charge’, to be introduced in the UK for building and construction services, is designed…
People/Customers never forget how you made them feel
In her latest article on dealing with Covid-19, Tracy Ebdon-Poole explains how TaxCalc is committed to making their customers’ businesses better. “I have learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will…
Open banking can increase your profit
Sam O’Connor explains how by mastering Open Banking you can increase practice margins and revenues this tax season. Bank feeds were a massive innovation 10 years ago when they first appeared on the scene. Now that the new breed of…
HMRC Reports descend to the level of Corporate Vanity
HMRC’s Annual Report and Accounts for 2019/20 have just been published so of course I downloaded and took a look. The publication comes in at a stonking 333 pages and, believe me, it was most certainly not produced by the…