HMRC has today published the fact that they are about to issue late return penalties to 850,000 people over the next fortnight. This is down from 1.4 million last year, so you may think this is good news. However… last year it was possible to have a fine cancelled where there was no tax due, u

Many people looking to grow or start a business would benefit from finance to assist with their planned expenditure.   Indeed, particularly in the current climate, now is an ideal time to invest in the future and for growth whilst your competitors are downsizing and restricting their marketing

We go out of our way to help people meet the tax deadlines. Indeed this month that involved working through every weekend, and a fair few late nights as well, in order to help people with their tax returns and accounts that they had left until January. There is a limit to what is possible though, a

HMRC have just announced a two day extension to the 31st January 2012 tax return submission and tax payment deadlines. Whilst you may think that this is good news, it raises the important question as to how people are planning for 2012 when they don’t have their accounts for 2010/11 finalised

There are some people who may have been ignoring tax for some time, not too concerned as perhaps friends and the ‘pub experts’ may have misinformed them. However in 2012 we are seeing four areas developing that will combine for some people to create the ‘Perfect Storm’, desc

Many of you will be familiar with Victor Kiam, he became a household name several years ago for his shaver adverts with the famous line “I liked it so much, I bought the company!” No, I’m not buying BNI! But I am starting my own personal BNI group… As an Assistant Director

Many people that run their own business find that, because they love their business, they end up spending a lot of time on it. For those of us who are inspired by our business, this doesn’t seem like ‘work’ such as a 9 to 5 but it is still important to make sure that you are also

We are rapidly approaching the 31st January personal tax return deadline. Many people may just be starting on the tax returns after the holidays, however there is still time to get help for them provided they don’t leave things too late. One new change in HMRC fines, that people may have misse

Happy New Year! Following from my review of 2011, below are my top three predictions for 2012: 1) The further growth of the self employed. Many of the newspaper headlines concentrate on the ‘loss’ of jobs, however fail to recognise the increase in the number of self employed people tha

This time of year is a good one for planning for the future, as I blogged about recently. However, it’s also important to recognise your successes from the past year as well. For myself there were three big successes in 2011: 1) Continuing the growth of taxhelp.uk.com – we continued to