by Jennifer Grocott | 28th June 2021 | Limited company, Making Tax Digital, Sole trader, Start ups, Tips and Tricks, VAT
VAT can be a source of curiosity and confusion for business owners. Do you have to register for it or do you choose to? When is it necessary? And why? Is it a good thing? Though you can choose to voluntarily register for VAT at any time, there is a VAT registration...
by Georgi Rollings | 16th June 2021 | Making Tax Digital, Sole trader, Tips and Tricks, VAT
At the moment Making Tax Digital is only mandatory for VAT-registered businesses which are over the VAT registration threshold. And even then it is only a requirement for filing VAT returns. But is Making Tax Digital just for VAT? The short answer is no. MTD for VAT...
by Juliet Wylie | 11th June 2021 | Accounting, Start ups, Who we are
Around 20% of UK companies fail within their first year. According to figures from the Office for National Statistics, only 42.4% of businesses are still trading five years after being set up – and those stats pre-date COVID. Typically, one of the main causes is...
by Caroline Young | 7th June 2021 | Directors, Limited company
As a company director, your earnings are subject to National Insurance (NI) in the same way as all employees’ earnings are. It is treated differently in the way it’s calculated. If you’re a limited company director, you’ll pay both employers and employees...