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
HMRC 31st July Payments on Account
The end of July sees the second payment on account falling due for the 2013/14 tax year, for those that are subject to them. HMRC normally contact taxpayers regarding these at the beginning of July, although I always also contact
Proposal to combine tax & national insurance
It has been reported today that tax and national insurance may be combined in the future. This is something that has been talked about for some time, so it would be good to see matters progress. For the self-employed there
Have you received a letter from HMRC about rental income?
I reported back in March about HMRC’s let property campaign, and how they would be contacting people who they believed had not declared their rental income. Following on from this, HMRC have recently advised that they have now written to
Are you missing out on pension tax relief?
According to several sources, it could be that quite a high percentage of people with private pensions are missing out on the tax relief they are entitled to. Whilst basic rate tax relief is given at source on the contributions,
A two-day tax refund from HMRC in 2014
Last year I posted about how, in April 2013, HMRC were able to issue a refund to one of our clients 1 day after we submitted the return online. This year we were able to submit returns as soon as
Annual tax summaries from HMRC
HMRC has announced that they will be rolling out a new annual tax summary to taxpayers from October 2014 onwards. These do not require any action to be taken, but will set out your annual tax contributions made and show
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
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
Why face to face networking matters
With many different online networks, sometimes people can forget the value of traditional face to face meetings: I’ve been using a combination of both online and offline networking myself since 2008, and the structure of a traditional networking meeting does
The Employment Allowance
If you have any employees then the new Employment Allowance could be of benefit to you: The allowance means that employers can reduce the amount of their National Insurance contributions by up to £2,000. I recently had a meeting with
Training in Surrey
Monday evening saw me training local business owners in how to grow their business through referrals. It’s a surprising statistic that 98% of businesses rely on referrals to grow their business, yet only 3% of businesses have a strategy to
