Small Business Saturday – 6/12/14
I took part in the event last year, and will be again in 2014. If you haven’t heard of it before, here is what they say: Small Business Saturday is a grass-roots, non‐political, non-commercial campaign that supports, inspires and promotes small business and encourages people to support small businesses in their communities, both on the […]
I’m registered under the Growth Vouchers programme
You may have heard of the Growth Vouchers programme – a scheme where investment in obtaining strategic advice is subsidised. This is a great benefit to growing businesses, where the government will match funding up to £2,000 towards the cost. The Growth Vouchers programme helps small businesses get strategic business advice on a number of […]
Celebrating 8 years in business
August 2014 is the 8th anniversary of my founding taxhelp.uk.com. I founded the company to specialise in helping the self-employed, particularly those running a business on their own from home. As is traditional, I have commissioned another video to commemorate the occasion:
ATT Member in Practice
As you may know, James McBrearty and taxhelp.uk.com are registered in practice with the oldest and largest professional body involved with UK tax compliance, the ATT. There are many benefits to using a qualified professional, such as: Up to date on technical issues Members of the ATT have to keep up prescribed amounts of continuing […]
10 minutes on taxhelp.uk.com
As you know, I’m involved with BNI – the world’s largest business referral organisation. Within BNI members are given the opportunity to give a 10 minute presentation to their group, to go into further detail regarding their business than is possible in the 60 second round. As with many presentations, the slides are only […]
ATT President’s Reception 2014
Last night saw me back in London, to attend the ATT President’s Reception at the BFI Southbank. As 2014 sees the 25th year since the ATT was founded, the event also saw the launch of the 25att25 competition. Our guest entertainer this year was Joe Stilgoe – singer, pianist, composer and entertainer. I’m looking forward […]
60 Seconds?
Many networking events give people the opportunity to tell the group about themselves, usually within a 60 second time limit. This 60 seconds gives you an opportunity to tell people what you do, why people can trust you and what referrals you are looking for. The 60 second presentations can develop over a number of […]
2014 Top Tax Twitter Award
I’m pleased to advise that I have received another twitter award from TaxConnections: TaxConnections has ranked the Top 20 Tax Professionals Twitter Rankings for 2014, and I’m placed 9th in the worldwide list. Twitter is also the number one Social Network I recommend, I posted a blog just this week about it as well: Do […]
Do you tweet?
I’ve been using Social Media for business since 2009, and over that time have seen various sites come and go. One site that I have continued to use over the last few years is twitter. It’s the site I recommend, and with messages being limited to the size of a normal text message (140 characters) […]
Launch of the taxhelp.uk.com mobile website
With many people accessing the web via a mobile device, we now have a mobile version of our website. It has all the same sections as the main website, but formatted so that it is easy to read on a small screen. You can access it by simply going to taxhelp.uk.com from a mobile device. […]
January 2014 Newsletter
Happy New Year. Today marks the first full day back after the holidays for many people. Tax fines 31st January is the final deadline for submission of a 2013 tax return, after that there is an automatic £100 fine – even if someone is due a tax refund. The penalties for not submitting a tax […]
Endorsement from Penny Power OBE
In 2010 I published my first book, Chocks Away, which was endorsed by Penny Power OBE.