by Simon Baxter | Jul 3, 2023 | Business Updates, Cloud Computing, Featured
STARTING A FOOD BUSINESS? When you start a new food business or take over an existing business, you must register with your local authority. You should do this at least 28 days before food operations start. This applies to food businesses trading: from physical...
by Simon Baxter | Feb 9, 2023 | Business Updates, Cloud Computing, Featured
Collecting debts in 12 easy steps When onboarding a new customer and offering credit terms, make sure you have details of the person to contact about payment. Always send a statement electronically at each month end (if monthly terms). This should be easy with modern...
by Simon Baxter | Jan 18, 2023 | Business Updates, Cloud Computing, Featured
Company Law Changes on the horizon The white paper on reform to the Company Register, sets out a series of adjustments for businesses for 2023 to “safeguard our national security and reduce the economic and social costs of fraud,” the white paper laid out that small...
by Simon Baxter | Dec 20, 2022 | Business Updates, Cloud Computing, Featured
Furlough claims – Ooops! Many businesses have inadvertently made errors in their furlough claims and a small number have knowingly over claimed. HMRC say they are not writing anything off and have legal powers to recover this money up to 20 years after the event....
by Simon Baxter | Dec 9, 2022 | Business Updates, Cloud Computing, Featured, Office updates
DIRECTOR’S LOAN ACCOUNT, WHAT IS IT? If your business is set up as a Company rather than a Sole Trade or Partnership, it is important to remember that the Company is a separate legal entity. It is “Corporate” from the Latin “corpus” meaning body and has its own legal...
by Simon Baxter | Dec 1, 2022 | Business Updates, Cloud Computing, Featured, Office updates, Uncategorized
Interest rate conundrum… We have probably forgotten how exceptional the low interest rate period from 2009 to 2021 was. The Bank of England chart below brings it home. Before the 2008 financial crisis, interest rates were around 5% which was needed to control...
