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06.15.15

Companies with September 30 Year Ends

 
Small private companies with a year end of September 30th 2014 and in their second or later year of existence should file their accounts at Companies House by June 30th 2015 in order to avoid incurring a Late Filing Penalty.

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06.12.15

Opening Times

 
Our nominal opening times are 9 to 5, which will be easy for our clients to remember. We will in fact take deliveries such as accounting records from 8.30 am, and also on Saturday mornings by arrangement. Over holiday periods such as Christmas, we might also take a delivery on a reasonable day by arrangement.

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06.11.15

Continuing Students

 
should apply for their student loans and grants by June 26th 2015. If they apply after this date, they may find that things are not ready at the start of term.

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06.10.15

Businesses in Difficulties

 
Businesses in difficulties are making the news again. The solution of cutting jobs is not likely to do anything to improve customer service, which means that we are looking at a reason for the next round of problems, and so on. A similar example is a railway chopping its branch lines. That means eliminating the feeders for its main lines, so less traffic on the main lines, paving the way for yet more cuts …

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06.8.15

Payroll return deadlines on June 19th.

 
Construction Industry Scheme returns for the period from 6th May 2015 to 5th June 2015 should be submitted online by 19th June 2015. This includes NIL returns.

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05.29.15

A Wonderful Tax Avoidance Scheme?

 
Let’s say you are a company employing two people, each receiving a substantial salary. It may occur to you that if you split yourself up into two companies, each employing one person, then you can claim two lots of Employment Allowance. Why stop there?  Why not have every employee with his or her own company?

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05.28.15

A Qualified Audit Report by a Qualified Auditor

 
Is this good or bad?  Well, the word “qualified” means two different things in the title. The auditor is a specialist accountant who has to sit and pass a lot of exams, and have supervised professional training, and do continuing professional development, in order to be described as “qualified”. Having a qualified auditor is a good thing, one presumes, and an unqualified auditor is to be avoided. The unqualified auditor may have failed the exams or been struck off.

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05.27.15

Change

 
If you are thinking of a career in accountancy, then one golden rule is to expect change. Sometimes it is good change, but only sometimes. Often it is good-ish change poorly implemented, like the Revenue’s online efforts. Sometimes it is mindless change for the sake of change, of which non-corporate distribution tax is a prime example. Sometimes it is actually bad change, like the two different sets of rules on capital gains tax for individuals and for companies. Always, though, it is going to be change.

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05.21.15

VAT returns for the Quarter ended 30 April 2015

 
are due for submission by 7th June 2015. Any net VAT which is payable is due to be paid electronically by the same deadline date.

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05.18.15

Company Accounts to 31st August 2014

 
The financial statements of private companies in their second and subsequent years of business with a year end of 31st August 2014 need to be submitted to Companies House by 31st May 2015. The corporation tax payment for a small company with the same year end needs to be made by 1st June 2015 in order to avoid Late Payment Interest.

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