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• Category: Brexit
  • Manufacturing orders increase after no deal brexit avoided
  • Christmas Markets face extra challenges due to Brexit costs
  • Brexit causes housing market stand-off with buyers and sellers
  • Brexit could cause property investment to surge
  • £8m campaign launched to help hauliers with Brexit Preperation
  • Protection for flights and road after Brexit reaffirmed
  • Government invest £30 million to improve ports for Brexit
  • No deal Brexit will hit Small Businesses and Amazon Retailers
  • Housing experts predict Brexit would cause house prices to fall
  • Charities warned to prepare for no-deal Brexit
  • Britains legal industry brace for a no deal Brexit
  • Exporters Need to be Prepared for a Potential no Deal Brexit
  • Spring Statement 2019
  • HMRC sets out rules for postponed VAT accounting if no deal Brexit
  • Charity sector is ill prepared for a no-deal Brexit
  • How will Brexit affect the rail supply sector?
  • Autumn Budget 2018: Summary
  • Government reveals contingency justice plans for no-deal Brexit
  • Political uncertainty sees manufacturing investments decline
  • SMEs could face £3.6bn EU funding shortfall by 2021
  • Autumn Budget 2017: Summary
  • Hospitality staff shortages a real concern after Brexit
  • Fall in the pound boosts UK tourism numbers
  • 10 ways Brexit may affect tourism
  • Brexit: implications for rail, haulage, aviation and ports
  • UK manufacturing challenges in 2016 – including Brexit
  • Brexit: Care Home Implications and Tips to Increase Profitability
  • Brexit: impact on investments, pensions and tax
  • Brexit: significant implications for the charity sector?
• Category: COVID-19
  • Mortgage Payment Holidays set to End on 31 October
  • Built-up property demand is causing faster sales
  • Kickstart Scheme opens for employer applications
  • Eat Out to Help Out – over 64 million meals
  • The Lost Tax Relief For Partners’ Expenses
  • HMRC outlines Job Retention Bonus criteria
  • Law Firms Confidence Increasing over Long-Term Workload?
  • COVID-19 sends rail off the rails
  • How has COVID-19 affected the haulage industry?
  • NHS England announce abatement figure for dental practices
  • Additional Funding Available for Pharmacies
  • Summer Statement Summary
  • Rishi Sunak announces £2bn home insulation scheme
  • Government Announces Stamp Duty Holiday
  • Prime Minister to use Construction to rebuild economy as 2 metre social distancing rule is changed
  • Temporary changes to retail supply of veterinary medicines
  • Hospitality Sector to reopen from 4 July
  • VAT deferment period closes on 30 June – Reinstate your direct debit
  • Deadline for SDLT extended for main residence disposals
  • R&D Tax Relief could give your business a cash boost
  • Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) extended
  • Government Announces Changes to Job Retention Scheme
  • All non-essential shops expected to reopen from 15 June
  • Coronavirus Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme
  • The Local Discretionary Grants Fund
  • Government Road Map for Exiting Lockdown Summary
  • Self-Employment Income Support Scheme Applications are open
  • Large number of SMEs decide to furlough staff
  • March retail sales decline due to coronavirus lockdown
  • Self-employment Income Support Scheme
  • Contactless spend limit to be increased; COVID-19
  • Deferral of Tax Payments
  • VAT deferral – Cancel your VAT direct debit!
  • NHS England will protect pharmacies income during the pandemic
• Category: Cryptocurrency
  • Crypto assets Questions and Answers Article
  • Cryptocurrency fraud: £2 million lost over the last two months
• Category: Hawsons
  • HLB Communities Day 2020
  • Two promotions at Hawsons
  • Hawsons Business Continuity Plan
  • HLB’s Inaugural survey of business leaders is now available
  • Hawsons Partners complete a-26 mile hike for charity
  • Hawsons Chartered Accountants will be baking and biking for BBC Children in Need
  • Hawsons appoint Craig Burton as Partner
  • Nicky Morgan calls to end “alpha-male culture” in financial services
  • Hawsons have a whirl of a time helping out at Whirlow Hall Farm
  • Tony Nickson joins Hawsons as VAT Consultant
  • Hawsons fundraise for Children In Need with charity bake-off!
  • Hawsons’ partners take part in international football tournament
• Category: HLB International
  • Hawsons’ partners set for football on the international stage
• Category: Office
  • Category: Doncaster
    • Stephen Allender joins Hawsons as Senior Tax Manager
    • Hawsons launch new exit planning service
    • Two new managers at Hawsons Chartered Accountants
    • “Most difficult thing I’ve ever done” – Martyn complete cycle
  • Category: Northampton
  • Category: Sheffield
• Category: Press Release
  • Hawsons Assist on a Management Buy Out at the Swift Group
  • Hawsons support this year’s ICAEW BASE competition in Sheffield
  • New allowance will save businesses £2,000 per year
  • Bank of England economist to speak at seminar
• Category: Sector
  • Category: Agriculture
    • Tax Rates 2020/21
    • Hawsons are here to help COVID-19
    • Bank of England Update for Businesses and Households
    • The Election Result: What are the tax implications?
    • Making Tax Digital and VAT: are you ready?
    • Tax Rates 2018/2019
    • Over a third of the UK’s food and farming businesses could become “unviable” after Brexit
    • What businesses need to know about the new GDPR
    • Input Tax – Beware of the pitfalls!
    • R&D tax incentives – don’t miss out!
    • Farmers’ Averaging: It pays to spread
    • The Election result: What are the tax implications?
    • Agriculture General Election Special
    • Agriculture update for UK farmers – May 2017
    • National living wage – rising wage costs for employers
    • Renewable Energy
    • Agriculture 2017 Budget review and analysis
    • Small business 2017 Budget review and analysis for SMEs
    • Tax Rates and Allowances 2017/18
    • Agriculture update for UK farmers – February 2017
    • Brexit and Agriculture: The potential choices
    • Agriculture Autumn Statement 2016 review
    • The Autumn Statement 2016 predictions
    • New polymer banknotes start circulation with £5 note
    • 4 succession planning tips for the family farm
    • Brexit: what does it really mean for UK farming?
    • Brexit: tax implications as the UK votes to leave the EU
    • £17m funding available for training in the Sheffield City Region
    • Agriculture update for UK farmers – May 2016
    • Expenses exemption to replace dispensations from 6 April 2016
    • Agriculture update for UK farmers – April 2016
    • National Minimum Wage to rise again in October 2016
    • Agriculture 2016 Budget review and analysis for farmers
    • Small business 2016 Budget review and analysis for SMEs
    • Tax Rates and allowances 2016/17 – summary and details
    • Changes to tax relief on pensions for high earners from 2016/17
    • The new PSC Register – a new law that affects nearly all UK companies
    • 2015/16 year-end tax planning advice for owners and individuals
    • Important PAYE and employment tax changes 2016 that you need to know
    • Agriculture update for UK farmers – February 2016
    • New farmers’ averaging rules – five year averaging optional
    • Farming – reduce tax bills (AIA) or keep cash reserves?
    • A look at DEFRAs 25-year plan for agriculture
    • Agriculture update for UK farmers – November 2015
    • Agriculture Autumn Statement 2015 review
    • Agriculture update for UK farmers – October 2015
    • Technology in UK farming – a new era?
    • Agriculture update for UK farmers – September 2015
    • Mitigating the impact of suffering milk margins
    • Over £11.4bn in R&D tax relief now claimed
    • ATED: Updated procedures and details on ATED returns
    • Agricultural diversification – beware tax pitfalls
    • What is eligible for Agricultural Property Relief?
    • Is diversification right for your farm or rural business?
    • Extension of farmers’ averaging to give greater flexibility
    • Chancellor gives Annual Investment Allowance certainty
    • Planning for capital expenditure in the next few months
    • Tax Rates and allowances 2015/16 – summary and details
  • Category: Agriculture update
  • Category: Care Homes
    • £588m of additional funding announced for adult social care
    • Treasury temporarily scraps VAT on Personal Protective Equipment
    • Local Councils urged to increase funding levels in the care sector
    • Biggest challenge for care homes is to recruit and retain staff
    • Hawsons lead in the sale of Dr Anderson Lodge Care Home
    • Government announces scheme to help social care providers
    • Sheffield care home fee review and market analysis 2018/19
    • Report finds almost half of workers in care sector leave job within a year
    • Report shows one in 10 councils cut social care funding
    • Figures reveal 900 carers quit every day as social care system faces difficulty
    • Care home 2017 Budget review and analysis
    • Sheffield care home fee review and market analysis 2017/18
    • How is your care home performing?
    • Care sector 2016 review – What does the future hold?
    • Care Home Autumn Statement review 2016
    • 5.2% reported increase in care home fees
    • Advice on buying or selling a care home – key considerations
    • Care home Minimum Wage and Living Wage update
    • New EU GDPR rules – 12 things you should be doing to prepare
    • An update on the MiHomecare home care case
    • The looming care home bed supply squeeze
    • Sheffield care home fee review and market analysis 2016/17
    • Care home 2016 Budget review and analysis for operators
    • Are we heading towards energy efficiency in the care sector?
    • Are we ready to embrace technology in care homes?
    • National Living Wage – the impact across hospitality, retail and care in 2016
    • Pharmacy global sum funding 2016/17 set to fall considerably
    • Predictions for the care sector in 2016 – where next for care?
    • 2015 performance benchmarking for small care homes
    • Care homes and preparing for the National Living Wage
    • Care Home Autumn Statement 2015 review
    • AIA certainty – good news for care home operators?
    • Technology in care homes – is your website effective?
    • National Living Wage – The impact on care homes
    • Care sector – what does the next 12 months hold?
    • A welcome rise in fees for care providers
    • Care home fees & market analysis 2015/16
    • Big care home compliance changes – are you ready?
    • UK Minimum Wage set to rise again
    • Care home performance benchmarking Autumn 2014
    • Confidential information security warning for health sector
  • Category: Charities
    • Further Funding Available for Charities
    • Watchdog Finds Failures in Management at RMIB
    • Independent Age Launch £2m Fund for Smaller Charities
    • Charity Commission Updated Guidance
    • Can Charities Claim Under the Small Business Grant Fund?
    • Chancellor announces coronavirus aid for frontline charities
    • Coronavirus Guidance Update for Charities
    • Fundraising regulator publishes new guidance to help charities
    • Charity Commission investigates after Accountants Report
    • What does charity finance have in store for 2020?
    • Charities and VAT
    • Charity Tax group launch a national survey on charity VAT relief
    • new anti-money laundering regulations set to hit many charities
    • Charity tax improvements might unlock more people giving to charity
    • Charities Aid Foundation gave £646m to charities in 2018/19
    • Charity Trustees Time Off for Duties Bill
    • £560 million of Gift Aid goes unclaimed every year
    • Employing the Millennial generation
    • Could a Charity merger be the answer for saving your charity?
    • Trustees…Be Warned! New Charity Commission warnings
    • VAT can be Charitable – here’s how your charity can save on VAT
    • Staff from Hawsons Endeavour to help!
    • What charities need to know about the new GDPR
    • Leaving the EU could hit funding, charity leaders warn
    • Fundraising Regulator Levy not paid by a third of smaller charities
    • Changes to inheritance tax could impact charity legacies
    • Charity 2017 Budget review and analysis
    • 7 ways on how to keep on top of your charity’s reporting requirements
    • How technology may impact the charity sector in 2017
    • Charity Autumn Statement 2016 review
    • Fundraising Regulator Levy
    • Charities given proposals to tighten up fundraising rules
    • Is your charity’s structure right for you?
    • Avoiding Grant Gremlins
    • Challenges charities and trustees face in 2016
    • Gift Aid rules 2016 – new Gift Aid declaration wording for donors
    • Business benefits of donating to charity – including tax breaks
    • The apprenticeship levy explained: wider consequences for connected companies
    • How to maximise the generous tax reliefs for charities
    • Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) conversions – new consultation
    • Charity SORP – FRSSE SORP v FRS 102 SORP – what’s changed?
    • Cuts in public funding to hit small charities hardest
    • Charity 2016 Budget review and analysis for trustees
    • Charity fundraising guidance revised as public trust at 8-year low
    • Important changes to Employment Allowance from 6 April 2016
    • 43% of charities fail to report charitable expenditure correctly
    • Gift aid payments from trading arms to the parent charity
    • Housing case highlights complicated charity VAT exemptions
    • Charity Autumn Statement 2015 review
    • Non-financial trustees lessons from Kids Company
    • How can (and should) charities embrace the digital era?
    • The role of a trustee – guidance and advice
    • Challenges for charities in 2015/16
    • Q&A: Lessons for trustees after Kids Company closure
    • FAQ: A guide to trustee recruitment
    • New VAT refund scheme for certain charities
    • Urgent appeal: save multi-million pound charity scheme
    • Commission releases updated annual return form
    • Partner offers first thoughts on the new Charities Bill
    • Charity audit threshold doubles
    • A Summary of the Charities SORP – FRS 102 & FRSSE
    • The Price, Detection and Prevention of Charity Fraud
    • Cyber security risks for charities & not-for-profit
  • Category: Dental
  • Category: Engineering
    • Apprenticeship Levy: Not long to go
    • Prompt payment discounts and VAT
  • Category: Family Business
    • FTT slams HMRC conduct over VAT Assessment and Penalties
    • Five ways technology could improve a small business
    • Business rates increase 2017/18
    • Big small company accounting changes ahead
    • How to avoid family conflict over wages
    • Family business worries over succession
  • Category: GPs
    • Boris’ plan for the NHS
    • Nursing shortages begin as baby boomer population retire
    • NHS to pay doctors tax bills to avoid winter staffing crisis
    • NHS pension tax causes doctors to cut hours
    • Government backs pension flexibility to stop taxes undermining NHS workforce
    • State-backed indemnity scheme launched to save GPs thousands.
    • Survey reveals that the majority of GP partners earn less than locums
    • NHS England Launches review of all GP pension data after ‘discrepancies’ found
    • Over the last two years GP contact with patients increased by 7.5%
    • Study finds two in five GPs set to quit in next five years
    • Premises funding cuts could be on horizon for small practices
    • Further guidance issued on the Quality Payments Scheme
    • GP contract changes 2017/18
    • CQC announce considerable increase in fees for GP practices
    • Five-point plan to retain GP workforce
    • GP funding in the UK rises by 4.36%, but is still just 8.1% of the total NHS spend
    • GMS and PMS contract funding gap falls by nearly 40%
    • What next for the GP partnership model?
    • GP contract changes 2016/17
    • One year on from the 2015 new pensions rules – key stats
    • General Practice Forward View – an accountant’s perspective
    • The 2016/17 GP contract – a 1% funding boost, but more bureaucracy
    • Publishing GP net earnings from 31 March 2016 – what you need to do
    • Are there variations in CQC inspection ratings?
    • GPs face significant increase in CQC fees
    • Is succession planning for GPs a top strategic priority?
    • What the PMS funding changes mean for your practice
    • CQC to inspect nearly 500 GP practices every month
    • Could GPs be set for a more than 1% pay rise?
    • Will the publication of GP net earnings really improve transparency?
    • GP succession: 10 key action points for new partners
    • GP contract changes 2015/16
    • Global sum funding for GMS contracts will rise
    • Preparing for your GP CQC Inspection
    • Business mileage claims for GPs – Dr Samadian case
    • GP contract changes 2014/15
  • Category: Healthcare
    • Welcome news for pharmacies as Category M prices are set to increase from August.
    • Brexit: Returning pensioners could cost NHS £500m
    • Pharmacy funding proposal from the Department of Health rejected by PSNC
  • Category: IT and Technology
  • Category: Legal
    • Government Announces £3.1m Funding Plan
    • Rebound Revenue for Law Firms
    • Smaller law firms hardest hit by lockdown
    • Legal Services and the future of the UK Economy
    • UK Legal sector revenue increases
    • Bar pupil’s minimum wage set to increase
    • New regulation for solicitors and legal services
    • Investment in Lawtech almost triples in two years to £62m
    • Solicitors regulation authority raises concern about firms’ approach to anti-money laundering
    • The Solicitors Regulation Authority prepares for tech regulation
    • Criminal Defense Touting
    • SRA Anti-Money Laundering Review
    • Transparency in price and service guidance
    • Changes on the horizon for PI cover
    • SRA’s message to firms: stop offering banking facilities to clients
    • Is your firm at risk from Personal Injury reforms?
    • Solicitors “SEARCH”ing for answers
    • SRA Accounts Rules – Changes on the Horizon
    • Rules on where solicitors can practice relaxed by SRA
    • Law firms to report disparities between men and women’s pay
    • What could Brexit mean for the legal sector?
    • Is your legal structure right for you?
    • SRA plan to simplify the SRA Accounts Rules 2011
  • Category: Leisure & Hospitality
    • Leisure & Hospitality 2017 Budget review and analysis
    • Contactless payment popularity rises
    • Omnichannel hospitality opportunities – are you ready?
    • Rail electrification update – where now for CP5?
    • Leisure & hospitality 2016 Budget review and analysis
    • Ongoing transportation projects to improve UK links
    • Pubs and restaurants: what does the future hold?
    • Leisure & Hospitality Autumn Statement 2015 review
    • What does the Network Rail ‘pause’ mean for business?
  • Category: Manufacturing
  • Category: Pharmacy
  • Category: Property & Construction
    • First-time buyers fail to take advantage of house price slowdown
    • UK house price growth increases by more than 1%
    • Changes to Principal Private Residence (PPR)
    • House price growth at a six-year low
    • Property price growth has fallen to less than 1% in England
    • Domestic reserve charge for construction services to be delayed
    • Official figures show that property sales fell in July
    • A domestic VAT reverse charge will be introduced from 1 October 2019
    • Consultation on ancillary capital gains reliefs
    • Tenant Fees Act: 2019
    • ATT suggests couples ‘could be affected’ by increase in stamp duty for non-residents
    • How will the VAT reverse charge for construction work?
    • Private Residence Relief: Budget 2018
    • Structures and Buildings Allowance: Budget 2018
    • How will the VAT reverse charge for construction work?
    • Bank of England raises interest rates to highest level since 2009
    • Buy-to-let tax changes for landlords and property investors
    • Booming conveyancing market on the up again
    • Changes for ‘Buy to Let’ landlords in Summer Budget
    • Allowances on certain fixtures treated differently
  • Category: Retail
    • Sales in department stores have risen for the first time in 2019
    • Business Rates could be changed to help High Street retailers
    • HMRC – Shopping for undeclared VAT
    • Why did BHS fail? Lessons for UK retailers
  • Category: SME
    • New measures to ensure small businesses get paid on time
    • Research suggests ‘less than a quarter’ of UK SMEs plan to expand overseas
    • Two thirds of SME’s predict growth over the next three months
    • SMEs ‘confident in regard to growth prospects’, survey finds
    • UK set for weakest growth since 2009
    • Pensions: Accumulation
    • Spring Statement 2018: All The Info
    • Tax Free Childcare faces even more delays after technical issues
    • Research & Development Claims on the up from Small Businesses
    • New tax free childcare scheme – computer says no!
    • Trading as a limited company after dividend changes?
    • Year End Tax Planning 2015
    • RTI: filing penalties and appeals
    • New rules for retailers who sell to customers
  • Category: SME Tax Corner
  • Category: Solicitors
    • Solicitors “SEARCH”ing For Answers
  • Category: Transport & Logistics
    • Freight Transport Report: 2019
    • Transport and Logistics 2018 Budget review and analysis
• Category: Service
  • Category: Audit
    • What can audit and assurance provide for your company?
    • The Future of Audit?
  • Category: Auto Enrolment
    • Tax Rates 2019/2020
    • Beware of auto enrolment fines for non-compliance – Swindon Town case
    • Natasha Fathers joins growing Hawsons Wealth Management team
    • Are charities really prepared for auto enrolment?
    • Auto enrolment – bigger costs for those that wait
    • Clarification on automatic enrolment and directors
    • Auto enrolment – are you ready? Big fines for those that delay
    • Pensions Regulator uses formal powers over Auto Enrolment
  • Category: Bookkeeping
    • Making Tax Digital: Government delays introduction
    • Making Tax Digital: An update
    • Making Tax Digital: Full steam ahead
    • ‘Making Tax Digital’ – the biggest shake-up in personal tax for 20 years
  • Category: Business Services
    • Basic Cash Flow Management Tips
    • The Government has announced a scheme worth £1.25bn to help start-ups
    • Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme Update
    • Tough times ahead for UK economy says Chancellor
    • Companies House announce 3-month extension available for businesses unable to file their accounts due to COVID-19
    • Immediate relief on council tax and business rates for flood affected people
    • Bank accounts to pay savers ‘minimum interest rate’ under FCA plans
    • Pound Drops Below $1.30 as June Retail Sales Fall
    • Challenges for UK small businesses in 2016
    • Changes to business rates announced in the 2016 Budget
    • Important reminder: dividend tax changes from 6 April 2016
    • SME tax corner – the good, the bad & the National Living Wage!
    • Becoming more energy efficient in the leisure and hospitality sector
    • Uncertainty for buy-to-let landlords after tax changes
    • SME tax corner – the good, the bad & the Autumn Statement
    • SME tax corner – the good, the bad & the PAYE!
    • SME tax corner – the good, the bad & the chance
    • SME tax corner – the good, the bad & the kneady!
    • Small business outlook 2015/16
    • Hair and beauty sector targeted in HMRC campaign
    • Latest job market statistics – August 2015
    • National Living Wage – The impact on small businesses
    • Small company accounts – big changes afoot
    • Breaches double: government urges cyber security action
    • Cloud Service Providers
    • Credit control tips for small businesses
    • What is R&D tax relief? (video) Generous tax relief
    • 5 easy ways to grow your restaurant
    • 7 mistakes start-ups need to avoid
    • Recession a good time to start new business ventures
  • Category: Cloud Accounting
    • Benefits of using Cloud Accounting
    • Small companies are a vital part of the UK economy
    • The benefits of Cloud Accounting
    • Cloud accounting benefits for SMEs (video)
  • Category: Corporate Finance
    • Updates – Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme
    • Corporate Finance Deal Review 2019
    • PA Jewellery – 12 months into Employee Ownership
    • Press Release: CTW Hardfacing Management Buy-Out
    • Hawsons advise in multi-million-pound MBO at MFH Group
    • Hawsons Advise in £1.2 Million MBO at Daver Steels
    • MFH Group dispose of subsidiary
    • Raising finance advice – opportunities and timing in 2016
    • Is now a good time for a business acquisition?
    • Entrepreneurs’ Relief when selling your business
    • Peter Wilmer joins as Corporate Finance Partner
    • Tax relief on business sales looks set to change
    • 5 reasons why start-ups should plan
    • 5 reasons why existing businesses should plan
  • Category: Corporate Tax
    • What are Growth Shares?
    • COVID-19 Government Funding Update
    • IR35 reforms to be delayed until 2021
    • Budget 2020 Summary
    • DAC6: disclosure of cross-border tax arrangements – are you affected?
    • Budget 2020: Predictions
    • Budget date announced 2020
    • PM pledges increase in support for Research & Development
    • Corporation tax cuts on hold
    • National Living Wage to increase to £10.50 within five years
    • IFRS 16 leases rules have changed 1 January 2019
    • Changes to business risk reviews for large Business Customers from 1 October 2019
    • New Corporation Tax Payment Dates
    • Budget 2018: Predictions
    • Hawsons Hot Pension Planning
    • Budget 2017 Key Details and Summary
    • 2016 Autumn Statement – what you need to know
    • The apprenticeship levy: small business implications
    • R&D Tax Relief – the perfect time to claim
    • Commercial Stamp Duty Land Tax changes from the 2016 Budget
    • Budget 2016 summary and key details
    • HLB members discuss key topics in the Netherlands
    • Making R&D claims easier for smaller and medium companies
    • Enterprise Investment Scheme – a worthwhile opportunity?
    • Autumn Statement 2015 – what you need to know
    • Property income – repairs & replacement – more tax changes
    • Owning a property via a company – big tax changes!
    • What is the best vehicle for tax purposes?
    • VAT recovery on car-derived vans and combi vans
    • Budget 2015 and Tax Rates 2015/16 Booklets
    • Up front tax savings on incorporating a business removed
    • Capital or Revenue expenditure? A brief discussion
    • Changes to the Construction Industry Scheme (CIS)
    • Personal allowances and tax bands 2015/16
    • Impacts on the tax efficiency of goodwill on incorporation
    • R&D tax relief – Are you missing out on this generous relief?
    • VAT for digital business and ‘Mini One Stop Shop’ (MOSS)
    • VAT and prompt payment discounts – changes ahead
    • Employment Allowance available from April 2014
    • P11D forms – don’t get them wrong – common errors
  • Category: Cyber Security
    • How to recognise a phishing or bogus email?
    • GP data security – what the proposed new rules mean
  • Category: Exit Planning
    • Futureproofing: preparing your legal firm for succession
  • Category: IT
    • 4 tips for increasing law firm profitability and performance
    • The UK is the Digital World Leader, Research Reveals
    • Personal device at work policy
  • Category: Payroll
    • Minimum wage rates to rise in April
    • Minimum wage: 200,000 workers underpaid
    • 200,000 receive back pay as HMRC enforce National Minimum Wage
    • Apprenticeship levy update: further guidance issued August 2016
    • PAYE 3 days grace and risk based penalties to continue
    • Is now a good time to outsource your payroll?
    • Retaining retail staff using bonus schemes
    • Are you ready for the new Scottish Rate of Income Tax?
    • PAYE update for small businesses
    • HMRC have now issued the first in-year PAYE penalties
    • Big benefits of outsourcing your payroll
    • Things to consider when choosing a payroll provider
    • RTI penalties on the horizon
    • Do you employ anyone under the age of 21?
    • Can employers reclaim SSP? – SSP recovery abolished
    • Employment tribunal review in Bear Scotland v Fulton case
    • As National Minimum Wage rises, so do the penalties
    • RTI penalties for small employers delayed
    • Details of PAYE messages for employers
    • Pay your PAYE on time or face in-year interest on late payments
    • Shared parental leave – reforms of current system
    • P11d deadline approaching – 6 July 2014
    • National minimum wage in 2014
    • Employers no longer able to reclaim SSP
  • Category: Pensions
    • The governments work on self-employed pensions faces delay
    • Millennials seek more pension support
    • Maximising the opportunities for pensions tax relief
  • Category: Personal Tax
    • Additional support now available for the self employed
    • HMRC offers tips on avoiding Self-Assessment tax scams
    • Self assessment deadline is approaching
    • HMRC reminder to employees to claim their tax deductible expenses
    • Dividend changes 2016 – clarification of rules now given
    • Minimising tax by spreading income around the family
    • Claiming the marriage allowance – updated guidance
    • Dividend income shake-up: your questions answered
    • Reducing the cost of buying a home – SDLT reform
    • Tax Relief on Investments – SEIS, EIS, VCT & SIR
    • Pension freedom 2015 – a flexible future?
  • Category: Tax
    • Tax gap remains low
    • Advisory fuel rates for company cars
    • Self assessment deadline approaching
    • HMRC increases late tax payment rate
    • Make Do & Mend?
    • Proposed new rules for easier prosecution of offshore tax evaders
    • Advisory fuel rates for company cars and fuel benefit charge
    • New tax-free childcare scheme
    • Category: Making Tax Digital
      • Making Tax Digital: HMRC softens digital link deadline
      • MAKING TAX DIGITAL FOR VAT: What you need to know now April 2019 is here!
      • Lords call for a delay to Making Tax Digital for VAT until 2020
      • Making Tax Digital awareness and planning survey results
      • Making Tax Digital Update
      • Making Tax Digital – Update 4
      • Making Tax Digital Update
      • HMRC publish further information on Making Tax Digital (MTD).
      • More detail on the MTD proposals for VAT
    • Category: R&D
  • Category: VAT
  • Category: Wealth Management
    • Long Term Care Funding – Living longer but not necessarily healthier…
    • Pension wise launched by government
• Category: Writer
  • Category: Aaron Hemmington
    • Hawsons makes history after 165 years in business
    • Research & Development allowances
    • It’s no sacrifice: Changes to optional remuneration arrangements
    • Company car tax: is a company car still a tax efficient option?
    • Capital Gains Tax changes from the 2016 Budget
    • Changes to the taxation of saving income
    • Tax opportunities for UK farmers and agricultural businesses
    • New Advanced Assurance scheme for R&D tax relief claims
    • Government opens Patent Box Tax Relief consultation
    • Employment agencies and intermediaries become subject to new quarterly return regime
    • Barclays ‘Unlocking Overseas Opportunities’ event in association with Hawsons
    • CGT on the disposal of UK residential property by non-residents
    • Hawsons makes history after 160 years in business
  • Category: Alan Rhodes
  • Category: Andrew Morris
  • Category: Charles Kavazy
    • The Increased Cybersecurity Risks of Home Working
    • Are your users aware of the risk of Business Email Compromise?
    • Report shows 43% of businesses have lost or potentially lost vital data
    • CEO Fraud – Is your organisation at risk and how do you prevent it?
    • What your law firm can do in the event of a cyber attack
    • Brexit and the new EU GDPR rules
    • Beware email password recovery scam
    • Growing your business sky high with cloud accounting
    • How secure is cloud accounting?
    • The Importance of Cyber Security (video)
    • Cyber security – how to make your law firm safe
    • Beware high-risk fax message emails
    • Is your company data protected?
    • HMRC warn of ‘phishing’ emails
    • Information Security for GPs
  • Category: Chris Hill
    • UK manufacturers start to invest in sustainable growth
    • Manufacturing Update: How has the coronavirus pandemic affected the manufacturing sector?
    • British manufacturing could revive UK economy?
    • Rishi Sunak Announces Bounce Back Loan Scheme
    • Is the UK falling behind in developing automation and robotics?
    • Shutdown of car plants hits UK production around Brexit deadline
    • UK manufacturing job losses are at highest level in seven years
    • September car sale figures extends industry gloom
    • Government announce £30m R&D funding to help manufacturers
    • The Apprenticeship Levy Must be Changed
    • A Decline in Manufacturing Output
    • Boeing to open new manufacturing factory in Sheffield
    • Car production falls at fastest rate in UK for more than two and a half years
    • UK workers at risk as AI and robotic technology advances
    • Manufacturing 2017 Budget review and analysis
    • Manufacturing Autumn Statement 2016 review
    • Technological advancements in the manufacturing sector
    • Manufacturing and engineering suffering skills shortage
    • Grants for food and drink manufacturers in the East Midlands
    • UK automotive driving the manufacturing sector
    • Manufacturing 2016 Budget review and analysis
    • SME manufacturers ‘missing out’ on £25bn
    • Possible benefits of 3D printing in UK manufacturing
    • Manufacturing Autumn Statement 2015 review
    • The decline of the British steel sector
    • Manufacturing outlook – challenges and opportunities
    • Manufacturers to increase focus on innovation?
    • Manufacturing skills shortage: retaining key employees
    • Is 3D printing the future of manufacturing?
    • Quality and innovation vital for growth
    • Opportunity for Sheffield area school leavers – accountancy
  • Category: Craig Burton
  • Category: Craig Walker
    • Car or Van? Coca-Cola lose in Court of Appeal
    • New guidance on the Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme
    • Delay of VAT Making Tax Digital ‘phase two’
    • Budget 2020: Entrepreneurs’ Relief
    • The Budget 2020 – changes to R&D tax relief
    • The Marriage Allowance – Time is running out to claim
    • Canny romantics: The tax benefits of marriage
    • HMRC announces a change to the off-payroll working rules
    • Key tax relief at risk in 2020 Budget
    • Budget date announced 2019
    • Inheritance Tax receipts hit record amount
    • Hawsons year end tax planning ideas 2019
    • Christmas parties and staff gifts – a tax guide
    • New figures reveal R&D claims are on the rise
    • Requirement to Correct: time is running out to disclose
    • Canny romantics: The tax benefits of getting married
    • Tax payment due 31 July – have you paid?
    • Tax break to be abolished for short-term letting?
    • Hawsons year end tax planning ideas 2017
    • Spring Budget 2017: Predictions
    • Car-tax-trophe for new car buyers
    • How to recognise fake HMRC emails and other phishing scams
    • The Autumn Statement and a busy time ahead for the tax system
    • Tax-Free Childcare scheme
    • Offshore evaders given final opportunity to disclose tax to HMRC
    • Important reminder: landlords’ tax bills to rise again
    • Inheritance tax receipts increase by 22% to £4.7 billion in 2015/16
    • P11D deadline reminder – are you ready for 6 July 2016?
    • 4 reasons to file your 2016 self assessment tax return early
    • Craig Walker joins Hawsons as Senior Tax Manager
  • Category: David Cairns
    • Inheritance tax planning – new horizons for IHT
    • Summer 2015 Budget summary and key details
    • Rising company car benefits
  • Category: David Owens
    • SRA Accounts Rules 2019
    • Where are the drivers of the future for transport & logistics?
    • SRA set to relax Reporting Accountants’ requirements
    • Two new partners at Hawsons Chartered Accountants
  • Category: Ian Bryan
  • Category: Jack Ware
  • Category: Jenny Brown
    • Higher Earners – Could You Claim Child Benefit?
    • Payment of Capital Gains Tax within 30 days – new rules from 6 April 2020
    • Cryptocurrency & Tax
    • Personal allowances and tax bands for 2016/17
    • The new Lifetime ISA – details beyond the tax free headlines
    • Self assessment deadline close – are you ready?
    • Self assessment tax return – submission penalties
    • Extra tax relief on pension contributions – act before you miss out!
    • The family home: new Inheritance Tax (IHT) rules
    • Has inheritance tax planning been turned on its head?
  • Category: Kerry Johnston
  • Category: Mark Cousins
  • Category: Martin Wilmott
    • Anti Money Laundering
    • Autumn Statement: shock announcement for solicitors
  • Category: Martyn Weatherall
    • Partner retires after 38 years at Hawsons Chartered Accountants
  • Category: Mick Tonks
  • Category: Mike Turney
  • Category: Natasha Fathers
    • Relevant Life Cover
    • Hawsons Wealth Management have TWO Chartered Advisers
  • Category: Nigel Smith
    • More than £30 million lost to pension scams
    • We need to start thinking about our pensions
    • Inheritance Tax: The things you need to know
    • What is an Enterprise Investment Scheme and what are the benefits?
    • Pension scams – warnings to those approaching retirement
    • Savers plan big pension withdrawals after changes
    • Key Person Insurance a wise move for many
    • What Budget 2015 means for pensions
    • The big pension changes and how they impact you
    • Proposed pension reforms: things you should know
    • Salary sacrifice – big benefits for employers & employees?
    • Pension changes following Budget 2014
    • Changes to the ISA regime
  • Category: Paul Hutchings
  • Category: Paul Wormald
    • The cost of HS2 could rise to £106bn
    • Driving change under IR35
    • The cost of keeping Britain on the rails
    • Review says HS2 should be built in full despite increasing costs
    • Government invest £1 million to improve haulage sector
    • Consumers are now spending more on credit cards than cash
    • Get on the Right Track for Tax Credits
    • No-deal Brexit Planning information for UK Hauliers
    • Self-driving lorries heading to UK roads by the end of 2018
    • How to value your road haulage business this summer
    • Hauled before the Commissioner
    • Railfreight – Where are we going next?
    • Ask and you will receive… Maybe – Brexit and Transport
    • Transport and Logistics 2017 Budget review and analysis
    • Reported cut in grant funding for rail freight operators
    • What’s up the road and down the line in 2017 for transport?
    • Transport and Logistics Autumn Statement 2016 review
    • Haulage fleet finance
    • Challenges for transport and logistics firms in 2016
    • Logistics Report 2016 – shifts in activity, demand, costs & regulations
    • Keep on route through the haulage tax minefield
    • The Shaw Report’s recommendations – an accountant’s perspective
    • Employment tax update for the haulage sector
    • Transport and logistics 2016 Budget review and analysis
    • Is the future with self-driving trucks?
    • Coal-burning plants closures impact on logistics
    • Transport & logistics Autumn Statement 2015 review
    • What does the future hold for transport & logistics?
    • Electrification U-turn and its impact on the rail sector
  • Category: Peter Kennan
  • Category: Peter Lindley
  • Category: Peter Wilmer
    • Consumer Confidence is increasing after dismal 2019 for retail
    • UK Retail Sales Bounce Back In January
    • 2019 has been the worst year for retail in 25 years
    • UK Retail sales decrease despite going into the Christmas Period
    • The number of high street shoppers are declining
    • 50% of all debit card payments are now contactless
    • UK retail sales drop alongside online shopping
    • Retail Autumn Statement 2016 review
    • Retail 2016 Budget review and analysis for retailers
    • Is your retail website converting sales?
    • Retail Autumn Statement 2015 review
  • Category: Richard Burkimsher
  • Category: Richard Frost
  • Category: Richard Marsh
  • Category: Russ Pagdin
  • Category: Sarah Johnson
  • Category: Scott Sanderson
    • SME Autumn Statement 2016 review
    • Small business Autumn Statement 2015 review
  • Category: Sean Boyall
  • Category: Simon Bladen
    • Changes to the SRA handbook
    • All change for the SRA Accounts Rules
    • Deregulation of the legal sector…where next for solicitors?
    • Managing succession in the legal sector
    • Approval of changes to the SRA Accounts Rules granted
    • The importance of crisis planning for law firms
    • Dividends and the impact on incorporation for law firms
    • Is succession in law firms a very real problem?
    • Big changes to SRA Accounts Rules
    • The pros and cons of incorporation for solicitors & law firms
    • HMRC introduces solicitors’ tax campaign
    • Legal partner comments on TECH 16/14BL – ‘are unlawful’
  • Category: Stephen Allender
  • Category: Stephen Charles
    • Increase in probate fees abandoned
    • UK’s economy is growing at the slowest annual rate in a decade
    • Preparing for the IR35 rule changes 2021
    • PPR: Maximising tax relief for two homes
    • P11D forms – P11D common errors to avoid
    • Judge DRDed – new rules on the Direct Recovery of Debts (DRD)
    • Is green really the colour of money? – company cars
    • Transferable tax allowance for some announced from April
  • Category: Tony Nickson
    • VAT – Post 31 January 2020
    • Top 10 Errors at VAT Inspections
    • Credit Where Credit’s Due
  • Category: Will Amos