Welcome to our first agriculture update for UK farmers, a new monthly edition on the Hawsons website. Please do register for our agriculture newsletter if you would like to receive the agriculture update each month, along with our quarterly agriculture newsletter and...
In this month's SME tax corner we look at what's changed in the world of tax for small businesses. Good: R&D claims from SMEs increase by 23% New figures released by HMRC earlier this month show that since the relief was launched in 2000 over 120,000 claims have...
Is now a good time to be thinking about a business acquisition? Over recent years the corporate acquisition market has been challenging for those wanting to complete deals. The appetite of funders to lend has been constrained and the price expectations of vendors have...
Your guide to Entrepreneurs’ Relief when selling your business Entrepreneurs’ Relief (ER) has been around for many years. However, it appears that HMRC are now taking a more active interest in Entrepreneurs' Relief claims and the Government has recently tweaked some...
CQC to inspect nearly 500 GP practices every month It’s been almost one year since CQC introduced new style inspections of GP practices and out-of-hours services in England, a big revamp which led to the first ever ratings of practices. The regulator set a deadline to...
Self assessment tax return - submission penalties You may have seen in the press or on the TV a couple of months ago, news stories that implied that it would be easy to get out of paying an automatic £100 minimum penalty for the late filing of a self assessment tax...
ATED: Updated procedures and details on ATED returns Since 2013 a range of measures have been introduced to discourage the holding of residential property in the UK via companies, partnerships and collective investment schemes. In summary, these measures are: Stamp...
The news that Kids Company has closed down is a devastating blow to everyone involved. Following the closure we spoke to Hawsons’ three charity partners, Paul Wormald, Richard Burkimsher and Simon Bladen to get their thoughts on what lessons trustees can learn from...
The Treasury has opened the door for GPs to receive a pay rise of above the announced 1% The Chancellor announced in the Summer 2015 Budget that a 1% capped pay rise would be awarded to all public sector workers, including GPs, each year for the four years from...
Welcome to our first agriculture update for UK farmers, a new monthly edition on the Hawsons website. Please do register for our agriculture newsletter if you would like to receive the agriculture update each month, along with our quarterly agriculture newsletter and...
In this month's SME tax corner we look at what's changed in the world of tax for small businesses. Good: R&D claims from SMEs increase by 23% New figures released by HMRC earlier this month show that since the relief was launched in 2000 over 120,000 claims have...
Is now a good time to be thinking about a business acquisition? Over recent years the corporate acquisition market has been challenging for those wanting to complete deals. The appetite of funders to lend has been constrained and the price expectations of vendors have...