UHY Ross Brooke Chartered Accountants
The Chartered Accountancy practices of Ross Brooke and Brading Cryer have merged in a deal that both firms have described as a perfect match and Alan Gibson, Brading Cryer’s Managing Director is joining Ross Brooke as a Director and Shareholder. The combined firm will have 5 partners, 17 specialist managers
In recent years buy-to-lets have become increasing popular with seemingly everyman and his dog looking for a piece of the action, but the Autumn Statement contained a slap in the face for potential buy-to-let Landlords. Following on from his shock announcement earlier in the year that higher rate tax relief
The new rules for VAT on the storage on goods came into force on 1 October 2012 but there does seem to be plenty of evidence that it is not properly understood. From that date the provision of space for storage is a standard rated supply for VAT purposes. This
I have been both shocked and surprised by HMRC’s latest approach to VAT penalties for deliberate error. “But I don’t make any deliberate errors” you may think. OK, but in HMRC’s eyes you may be wrong because HMRC seem to have created their own definition of what is deliberate. In
A quick glance at any social media platform today will tell you that it is Back to the Future Day, the famous day that Doc Brown and Marty McFly travelled into the distant future of 21 October 2015. The blockbusting film had mixed success in its predictions of the future but
The secret of a good joke may be timing, but get this wrong and no-one will be laughing. The Annual Investment Allowance is the amount that a company can obtain a 100% write down against its profits each year for qualifying expenditure on items such as plant and machinery etc.
Businesses need to be aware of a new European court ruling which has clarified that travelling time to and from work could itself be classed as work. In a landmark ruling, the European Court of Justice has said that time spent to and from first and last appointments by workers
According to research from Close Brothers Asset Finance growing a business is top of the agenda for 34 per cent of SMEs. The quarterly survey of UK SME owners and senior management from a range of sectors also revealed that more than half of firms have already experienced growth in
If only I had a £ for every time I have heard this – “Hi Chris, I have taken someone on, on a self-employed basis, but it’s OK because he gives me an invoice”. At this point my heart usually sinks. It is fairly well know that the self-employed pay
I was recently asked by a director about the sorry state of one of the vans in his company’s fleet: “Should I replace the engine or buy a new van?” With the director being particularly cost conscious, the new engine seemed an attractive and cheaper option even if this did