Jon Stow Consulting – Tax Solutions

Protecting the tax take

Accountants’ tax duties

Times are difficult, but there are still many small businesses making profits, although those profits may well be under pressure. Some are making losses of course. It is fair for all business owners, whether they have companies turning over some millions, partnerships turning over hundreds of thousands or sole traders turning over tens of thousands to expect their accountants to ensure they pay no more tax than they should.

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Plant and machinery at the funfair

If you are thinking of selling your business or thinking of buying one, please do get tax advice at the outset. Of course commercial considerations are paramount, but once you have decided in principle upon making a move to sell, or a move to buy and started looking at the numbers, do take into account that those numbers may be affected in a major way by tax considerations.

Selling the owner managed company

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Following George Osborne’s “Emergency” Budget in June and still in the middle of a downturn, it is been hard to assess the immediate impact of the changes announced on small businesses. This practice acts for many who are wondering how they will be affected, and whilst there was a good deal of immediate reaction in the aftermath, there has been time for some more considered thought.

I am not blessed with second sight, but will dive into the debate anyway. Firstly, here are the basic measures:

• For small incorporated businesses the … Continue Reading
  

There has been a great deal in the professional tax press recently about HMRC’s intention to compel submission of corporation tax returns on-line using iXBRL from April 2011.

Quite apart from the expense issue from the taxpayer end in terms of the extra software costs required in development, it fills me with foreboding when the existing system, which is less complex, simply doesn’t work well.

I did try using HMRC’s own software on an experimental basis, but it involved downloading a huge editable PDF … Continue Reading