UHY Ross Brooke Chartered Accountants

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Autumn 2017 Budget Predictions

Don’t forget to put November 22nd in your diary. It’s the Chancellor’s first official Autumn Budget. If you think that it seems like we have only just had a Budget you would be right. The first Budget of 2017 was in the Spring but the Chancellor has decided that Budgets

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Lessons from Xerocon 2017

Today was the last day of two fantastic days at Xerocon in London, the annual event for Xero Partners. Over the two days, eight of our staff, from across our three offices, attended the event and it was an opportunity to learn about new developments in Xero, meet Xero Add-on

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Growth continues with 5 new directors appointed at Ross Brooke

We are very pleased to announce the appointment of 5 new Directors to the firm, as a result of both promotion within the firm and external recruitment. This will enable us to further strengthen our services to clients, in particular Tax Planning, Trusts and Estates Taxation, Charity Audits, Audit of

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Making Tax Digital – What’s Changed?

If you are in business you may not be aware, but from 2019 many businesses, the self-employed and landlords will need to use specialist software or apps to record and categorise receipts and expenses and to update HMRC quarterly with their figures. Making Tax Digital, or MTD as its commonly

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Worried of Newbury

Making Tax Digital is under a year away, yet we have learned today that there is a flaw in HMRC’s self-assessment software for 2016/17 affecting the dividend and savings allowance introduced in April 2016. This means that anyone submitting a self-assessment return online could be faced with an incorrect calculation

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Why and how you should move your accounts to the Cloud

Traditionally businesses have kept their accounting records in three general formats; manual records, spreadsheets and desktop systems. Each of these has always been less than adequate but with the advent of cloud computing their weaknesses have become much more apparent. Whilst manual records are easy to set up, this is

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Why recruiting good staff need not cost a fortune

After over 30 years service with the firm, we have had a number of key staff retire recently and combined with exciting growth across the practice, we have gone through a substantial recruitment process over the last 12 months. As you will know recruitment fees are far from cheap and

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What does making tax digital mean for you?

Making Tax Digital, or MTD as its commonly known, is the Government’s plan to make the UK the world’s most digitally advanced taxation system. HMRC believe that MTD will help eliminate estimated annual tax losses of £8 billion due to avoidable tax errors. MTD is due to be introduced in

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