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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…
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…
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…
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…
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’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…
Richard Simms talks you through the revised Anti-Money Laundering Guidance for the Accountancy Sector – known as AMLGAS. January 2020 saw the enactment of the updated UK Anti-Money Laundering Regulations (The Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information…
How can a director have a potential personal guarantee with a bounce back or CBIL loan when they did not sign up for a PG? Debbie Cockerton explains all. As I write this the government has just announced another four-week…
Technology can help – but it’s not the be-all and end-all, says Tony Margaritelli. Tech can turn an average practice into a good practice, but it can never make an average accountant a good accountant. The benefits of automation, integration,…
In May 2001, I helped set up the ICPA with a few chums in practice, an action that was borne out of frustration with the major UK institutes who really did not understand or possibly value the work we small…