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Further to our article in January 2009 on Research & Development (R&D) Tax Credits (previous article), the Government has recently announced further improvements to the R&D tax credits relief that is available to most companies, to be included in the Finance Bill 2012. [click to continue…]
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XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) was first introduced in 1998. Since then, there have been several versions and upgrades made, leading recently to the now increasingly widely used iXBRL (In-Line eXtensible Business Reporting Language). [click to continue…]
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Building-up a pension fund has historically been viewed as a decent way to hedge against IHT as well as save for your retirement. [click to continue…]
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The Pensions Act 2008 has put into law several far-reaching reforms to the existing pension environment. One of the most important will require employers to automatically enrol [click to continue…]
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As a result of changes in European law, the level of compensation that may be claimed under the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has increased from £50,000 to £85,000. This came into effect in January 2011.
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Redundancy has a special legal meaning: broadly, there must be a reduced need for employees (whether directly or indirectly), which causes the termination of the employment.
In the case of genuine redundancy, whereby an employment is terminated by an unconnected employer, no alternative employment is offered, no misconduct has occurred, the employee has not found another employment, [click to continue…]
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Many of you will have already come across this pre-existing scheme as an effective way of encouraging investment into small businesses in need to capital.
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It was announced in the recent Budget that eleven local enterprise partnerships will be invited to come forward with proposals for enterprise zones: [click to continue…]
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Best4business Accountants are very pleased to announce news of another new sponsorship deal with local football team Canning Town FC. [click to continue…]
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As you have no doubt already heard announced, the standard rate of VAT increased to 20%, from 4th January 2011.
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