At the risk of stating the obvious, you can only claim for a Class 1 NIC refund (due to multiple concurrent employments) after the end of the TY - i.e. when it becomes apparent whether or not your ...

The full introduction of Companies House identity verification for directors and persons with significant control (PSCs) on 18 November 2025 was meant to ...

For the first time, HMRC’s phone lines will stay closed over deadline weekend. HMRC said that anyone who still needs help on 31 January will need to use webchat through its Online Services Helpdesk.

Oh for the good ol' days prior to the 18th November where getting confirmation statements filed were a walk in the park ...

A taxi driver client, handed back his car as soon as he had paid off 50% of the HP finance and ceased trading.

Nick Williams, International Director of Product at Intuit/ [1] *British businesses are getting squeezed from every direction. Costs up, ...

Client holds property. Property was previously used by company so included as Freehold Property at cost less depreciation. Let's say cost was £1m and depreciation to date is £200k. Client moves out of ...

A new client approached me over the weekend to help him with Class 2 NI. The client is an elderly self-employed person who reached pension age 5 years ago ...

I'm hoping this week most of you just have a few stragglers left to clean up. So I'm flagging up a free webinar I'm doing on Thursday 5 February for ...

I have a client who is on QB but left his transaction allocations to January and it came to light that about 5 months of transactions were missing.

Thanks for your help with this. A client died in 24/25.  In 24/25 he had capital losses of £8k set off against gains of £15k.  The ...

I have always prepared accounts for my client the traditional way - fixed assets have been capitalised and depreciated and capital allowances claimed ...