How is VAT calculated? The standard rate of VAT 20%. If the goods or services you are supplying are standard rated, then the easiest way to calculate the VAT that you must add is to divide the price (excluding VAT) by 5. For example, if you provide a service for...
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What does the budget hold in store for pensions?
With the Budget less than a week away, much of the talk is whether Chancellor Philip Hammond will once again turn to pensions to help fund the Government’s NHS spending commitments. Hammond has described tax incentives to save for retirement as “eye wateringly...
Business fear a no deal Brexit
Businesses large and small are starting to panic at the prospect of a no deal Brexit and the nightmare scenario that this will bring. Despite promises from Theresa May that she is confident of a deal by Christmas, business leaders are highly sceptical, given the...
My Digital Marketing apprentice role
On Tuesday 11 September 2018, I started my Digital Marketing apprenticeship at Plus Accounting. Plus Accounting is a firm of chartered accountants, registered auditors and business advisers in Brighton. When you finish your A-Levels at college you are hit with a very...
Guest Blog: Could new energy efficiency regulations offer savings to the primary care estate and patient care?
On the 1 April 2018, the new Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (or MEES) regulations were introduced.
R&D Tax Reliefs misunderstood and underclaimed
An article in the Telegraph this weekend highlights the gap between the amount of tax reliefs that are available for innovation, and that which is actually claimed by companies. The article claimed that on average £150,000 is being under claimed annually by...
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