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05 May Self Employment Grant – Video guide to checking eligibility

The Government have provided further information around the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) grant. We received a very nice email from HMRC asking if we could help them out by educating our clients on this scheme and also to ensure they are aware of how...

25 Mar Key Furloughing Information

Posted at 10:52h in Accounting, Cloud Accounting, Limited Business, Payroll, Self Employed, Small Business, Sole Directors, Sole Trader, Start Up, Tax

Many clients (and non-clients) have been specifically interested in what Furloughing is and how this is covered in the recently announced COVID-19 support package. Given there are only so many hours in the day and every hour is much in demand at present, I needed...

24 Mar A glimpse of good news for self-employed individuals

Posted at 07:24h in Accounting, Personal Tax, Self Assessment Tax, Self Employed, Sole Trader, Tax

There has been sight of some information online in relation to the proposed support available for self-employed individuals. This has been summarised as follows: 1). The Secretary of State must, by regulations, introduce a scheme of Statutory Self-Employed Pay. 2). The scheme must make provision for payments...

28 Oct Are you in the 11% of people who file paper tax returns?

Posted at 23:40h in Accounting, Limited Business, Self Assessment Tax, Small Business, Sole Trader, Start Up

Written by Director, Huw Moseley: Truthfully, it’s a little baffling to us here at Link Accounting that people still choose to file paper Self-Assessment Tax Returns – but 1.14 million people did so in October last year. That’s 11% of all people who filed a...

29 Jul How To: get a potentially lucrative additional income through your second property

Posted at 10:30h in Accounting, Limited Business, Personal Tax, Self Assessment Tax, Small Business, Sole Directors, Sole Trader, VAT

Written by Director, Huw Moseley: Lots of the clients I work with are in a fortunate position to own a second property – and it presents an interesting field of accounting. Did you know, for example, Furnished Holiday Lets (FHLs) – quite apart from being a great...

24 Jul And another thing about HMRC

Posted at 07:45h in Accounting, Cloud Accounting, Limited Business, Self Assessment Tax, Self Employed, Small Business, Sole Directors, Sole Trader, Start Up, Tax Rebate, VAT

Written by Director, Huw Moseley: If you read my last blog, you’ll know that my advice when dealing with HMRC is to know your accounts inside out and backwards – as some times even Government administration bodies make mistakes. Well, I’m blogging on this subject again because...

19 Jul The trouble with HMRC (is that they often get it wrong)

Posted at 16:25h in Accounting, Cloud Accounting, Limited Business, Personal Tax, Self Assessment Tax, Self Employed, Small Business, Sole Directors, Sole Trader, Start Up, Tax Rebate

Written by Director, Huw Moseley: Now, I know the subject line for my blog this week is controversial. Like or loathe tax, we have to pay it because it keeps the country running. Which means somebody has to administrate it. But oftentimes, the administration leaves a lot...

07 Feb What happens if you missed the Self Assessment Tax Return Deadline?

Posted at 07:00h in Accounting, Cloud Accounting, Personal Tax, Self Assessment Tax, Self Employed, Small Business, Sole Trader

Written by Director, Huw Moseley: The deadline for filing your Self Assessment Tax Return was midnight on 31st January - and almost 750, 000 people missed it! Were you one of them? Even if you have no tax to pay, or you always pay your tax on time...

27 Nov Sole Trader bookkeeping is easy with 1Tap

Posted at 14:50h in Accounting, Cloud Accounting, Expenses, Personal Tax, Self Assessment Tax, Self Employed, Sole Trader, Tax

Sole Traders - we know that your time is precious and having to manually process all your expenses for your annual Self-Assessment feels like a waste of time. So to make life a bit easier we’re now offering 1Tap, a new expense management app designed...

31 Oct 31st October: Halloween (and the SATR Deadline!)

Posted at 13:26h in Accounting, Personal Tax, Self Assessment Tax, Self Employed, Sole Trader

It's that dreaded time of year...