by Juliet Wylie | 28th April 2022 | Being an employer, Directors, Limited company, Sole trader
Rishi Sunak had a few difficult decisions to make prior to his Spring Statement on 23 March. Knowing that households are going to be increasingly squeezed by rising costs of energy, fuel, food, in fact almost anything that we buy due to rising inflation, and with the...
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...
by Juliet Wylie | 19th March 2021 | Being an employer, Directors, Limited company, Sole trader
New IR35 tax changes will come into force in the private sector in April 2021. As a result some self-employed workers, and the businesses that hire them, will have to pay tax differently. Are you one of the 170,000 ‘contractors’ who may have to pay more tax? Are...
by Georgi Rollings | 2nd October 2020 | Directors, Limited company, Start ups, Tips and Tricks
One of the questions we get asked most often is how much you can take as dividends. Taking money out of your limited company without double checking what you are doing is also one of the easiest ways to get yourself into a financial mess. Most of us were employees on...
by Emma Lawrence | 18th September 2020 | Being an employer, Directors, Limited company, Tips and Tricks
As accountants, we’ve been asked plenty of times – “should I get a company car?” Up until recently, our answer was usually no. But new tax incentives relating to electric vehicles means we’re shifting our thinking towards an overwhelming YES. With government...