The Government has introduced a plethora of measures since 2013 to discourage high value UK residential properties from being held indirectly, e.g. through a company, in order to minimise or avoid tax. As of 1 April 2016, the lower valuation limit fell to £500,000, meaning more residential
Read more →Thousands of businesses were left without power and faced untold damage to property and infrastructure after Storm Desmond breached flood defences and inundated large swathes of the north of England in December 2015. Combine this with the growing number of firms, large and small, that are being
Read more →National Insurance has undergone a plethora of changes in recent years that have kept employers on their toes. Businesses that employ apprentices saw a change in the law back in April 2015 when the Government introduced a zero per cent rate of Secondary National Insurance Contributions (NIC)
Read more →Businesses looking to preserve and subsequently boost their IT operating systems can rejoice as Microsoft is offering Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users a free upgrade to Windows 10 – a first for the tech giant. Most SMEs are working with the six-year-old Windows 7 operating platform
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