It is January – the most important month of the year for accountants and in many ways for business owners too! By the 31st January 2015 you will need to have submitted your self-assessment tax return and paid any tax and National Insurance due. Who needs to send a tax return? Anyone who is a self-employed sole trader, a partner in a business partnership, a company director (unless it is a non-profit organisation that does not pay benefits like travel expenses or a company car). So get your books in and make this as easy as possible for us because
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We will be closed from Wednesday 24th December until Friday 2nd January. Help us make sure your payroll and VAT is done and up to date before we close for the Christmas break
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The price of a litre of petrol is set to drop to almost £1 in the coming months if oil prices remain low. Finally, there is some movement in the right direction. Kevin Daly, senior economist at Goldman Sachs, estimates that the price of a litre of unleaded petrol could fall to £1.05 over the next few months. The current UK average is £1.20 per litre. As a famous supermarket often tells us ‘every little helps’ – they could do with listening to their own advice in that regard of late. Tesco warns again about lower than expected profit margins.
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