Our editors have come up with another “re-interpretation” of posts made to the gov.uk website this week. Please note that comments added are entirely fictitious and any resemblance to the truth is purely accidental… Norovirus and rotavirus: summary of surveillance 2018-19 - Department of Health inspectors caught red-nosed sneezing in... read more →
Mar
15
Mar
15
The airways are jammed with discussion of the Brexit pantomime. What we seem to be witnessing is a breakdown in our democratic processes that is unparalleled in recent times. Are we leaving the EU, will it be a soft or a hard landing, and when will it happen? The whole... read more →
Mar
08
Readers who have business colleagues working as estate agents might like to pass on the following press release details posted this week. It says: HMRC officers visited 50 estate agents across England after they were suspected of trading without being registered as required under money laundering regulations. The visits came as HMRC published... read more →
Mar
07
According to the Guinness Book of Records, the longest time a person has held their breath, and has lived to tell the tale, was an incredible 24 minutes and 3 seconds. This act of voluntary and conscious sleep apnoea resonates with the UK’s present faltering steps towards separation from the... read more →
Feb
28
In a post on the gov.uk website this month the Treasury have observed that 65% of senior decision makers confess to losing or not keeping receipts. They posted: Senior Decision Makers in finance and accounting admit to not being the best at keeping receipts, as 65% confess to having lost... read more →
Feb
27
This week we posted an article on our newsfeed that set out the broad issues that need to be addressed, from a National Insurance perspective, if UK residents move abroad. The article says: If you move abroad it can often be advantageous to continue paying your UK National Insurance Contributions... read more →
Feb
21
It’s interesting to consider which comes first, marketing a service or creating and maintaining the service? Common sense would dictate that you can’t market a service that doesn’t exist or market a service that compares badly to services offered by competitors. But how many of us pay lip service to... read more →
Feb
15
Accountancy, as with most professions, demands the use of precise language to describe accurately, what is being communicated. To non-accountants, this specialist “language” is charitably described as jargon. The use of technical jargon is quite acceptable if both or all the parties to a conversation are accountants; unfortunately, problems arise... read more →
Feb
15
Having dealt with the 2017-18 filing deadline, tax professionals across the UK will be turning their attention to the following year, 2018-19, and opportunities to revisit tax planning for those clients who have previously resisted, or showed little interest, in strategies to reduce their tax footprint in the current tax... read more →
Feb
06
In a blog post to our site today we challenged practitioners to look at the risks to business activity post Brexit and what the profession should be offering clients to survive any downturn in activity. In particular, we discussed how we are all connected, via our own business contacts, to... read more →