Author: Craig Hyslop

How are accountants likely to be affected by the Budget?

With the recent Autumn Budget delivering personal tax changes, accountants across the UK are facing a new wave of complexities in managing their clients’ needs. From updates to Capital Gains Tax (CGT) and Business Asset Disposal Relief (BADR) to Inheritance Tax reliefs such as Agricultural Property Relief (APR) and Business Property Relief (BPR), the industry […]

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Posted In Personal Tax

Payroll – A surprisingly difficult job

As we celebrated National Payroll Week at the start of this month, it provided a perfect opportunity to reflect on a task that many underestimate. If you’re a business leader or an accountancy professional, you might have taken this moment to think about your own payroll team’s workload. Recent statistics from the Global Recruiter revealed […]

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Posted In Payroll

Diverse income stream carnage threatens your team

We often hear from accountants whose client has income from freelancing, investments, and rental properties and demands the same price for account filing as the simplest business models. Despite the added complexity created by multiple income streams, these clients often pay the same price as any other, and expect their accounts to be filed accurately […]

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Posted In Personal Tax

Analysing the recruitment crisis in accounting

It’s a problem we’re all trying to get our heads around – how do we fix the skills shortage and recruitment crisis in the accounting profession? Firms are constantly reporting lower numbers of applicants, year on year. Our clients frequently bemoan an increasing number of job vacancies, facing challenges in attracting younger professionals and often […]

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Struggling to get P11D information? The deadline is getting closer…

We’ve noticed many accountants are currently struggling to submit P11D and P11D(b) forms due to a lack of efficiency and cooperation on the part of their clients. As the 6 July deadline looms, the pressure must be getting harder and harder to carry, not least for your wider team too. If you don’t start receiving the necessary […]

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