Companies House recently published unusual excuses people gave for filing company accounts late. Check out the top 8 below: Goats ate my accounts I found my wife in the bath with my accountant Pirates stole my accounts We delivered the accounts to the betting office next door to companies house A Volcano erupted and prevented Read more about Top Excuses for Late Accounts Filing[…]
HMRC published a new notice (700/22) in July with more detail on Making Tax Digital for VAT (MTDfV). The notice confirms that MTDfV will apply to all businesses for the first VAT period starting on or after 1 April 2019 where their turnover was in excess of the registration limit (currently £85,000) in the Read more about Making Tax Digital (MTD) – VAT update[…]
Some customers have received fraudulent emails claiming to be from Companies House. An example of an email is below: The email is sent from: “noreply@cpgov.uk” with the following message: These emails are not from Companies House If you receive any emails from this sender or an email like this, forward them straight on to phishing@companieshouse.gov.uk as soon as Read more about Scam emails claiming to be from Companies House[…]
Kevin Brewer pleaded guilty to breaking section 1112 of the Companies Act 2006, which sets out the criminal offence of providing false information on the company register. He was fined £1,602 and ordered to pay costs of £10,462.50 and a Victim Surcharge of £160. The Story Kevin Brewer, a businessman, incorporated John Vincent Cable Services Read more about UK’s ‘first ever’ successful prosecution for false company information[…]
On 6 April 2018, by law, the minimum amount employers have to pay into workplace pensions goes up to 2% of qualifying earnings, while staff will now contribute 3% – making a combined total minimum contribution of 5%. Automatic enrolment has so far put more than nine million workers into workplace pension schemes. All of Read more about On 6 April the minimum amount employers must pay into workplace pensions is going up[…]
As a director of a limited company, you are responsible for filing accounts with Companies House and a corporation tax return with HMRC each year. Although most people appoint an accountant to handle this, it’s sill important to have a basic understanding of how your accounts are put together. You may think that if you Read more about Profit and loss account explained[…]
What is it? It is an update to the 1998 Data Protection Act (DPA) which unifies Data Protection across the European Union (EU) – in force from 25/05/2018 GDPR applies to both paper based and computerised records Why is it being updated? Current legislation needs updating Information as become a commodity and can sell for Read more about GDPR – General Data Protection Regulations[…]
Such a simply question, you would think, however it produces a complicated answer. For this calculation, we have assumed the following: The director wants to preserves their entitlement to state benefits, and The director wants a salary which saves the most tax and national insurance. First of all let us look at preserving your entitlement Read more about As a director, what should I pay myself in 2018/19?[…]