This week’s blog is about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which will come into force throughout Europe in exactly two months’ time and will herald the biggest change in privacy laws for a generation. We tend to think of privacy laws as a modern phenomenon, whereas in fact it was the UN Convention on…
Month: March 2018
Making Tax Digital – accounting software
Making tax digital is the government’s plan to take information for tax purposes directly from business owners’ online accounting software with no recourse to their accountant. This explains why HMRC are so keen to work with Xero, QuickBooks and FreeAgent. This move was foreseeable, and should be less of a shock to forward-thinking business owners…
“What’s your business worth?” I asked.
A client of mine decided recently to incorporate his business. “What’s it worth”, I asked “Does it matter” he replied “I’m not planning on selling”. “Yes you are” I told him. “Incorporation of a business or ‘going limited’ as many people call it, is legally and for tax purposes a sale from one party to…
Are you making the right choices?
The news this week of business failures past, present and possibly future is alarming. Stories of incompetence, ignorance and a lack of information on a huge scale. I was fortunate to have respite from this doom and gloom on Thursday when I attended a masterclass with a very successful entrepreneur whose wisdom would have prevented…
