The government has issued a warning to people who complete a self-assessment tax return to be alert to criminals claiming to be from HMRC. The scammers use threatening technics to set people in a despairing position. A few important things to remember: If you receive a call or email, or…
If you decide to find a new accountant to prepare your Income Tax Self Assessment, the end of December would be a tough period. This time of the year Christmas is our national priorities, not taxes. The shopping fever, office Christmas parties, wrapping paper and gifts take over our minds.…
Since HMRC started accepting digital copies of the receipts and bills, we don’t need to keep all paper originals for 6 years, dedicating an additional safe room to store them. Furthermore, no extra cost would follow to get the expired records destroyed. Cloud-based accounting systems come to the rescue. All…
Before Internet time, we searched for professional services using telephone directories, such as Yellow Pages. As years passed, web directories took over, and all registered businesses moved online to Yell.com. We needed to punch in the service we required and our postcode to find the professional near us. People were…