UHY Ross Brooke Chartered Accountants

Category: Business

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Inflation is creating more entrepreneurs

A need for additional income is motivating people to start their own businesses. As UK inflation hits a 40-year high of over 9%, more and more people are starting their own businesses. New technology such as online payment systems, digital marketing tools and free online resources* are helping to remove

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How we saved a client over £20m

Who is SafeToNet? SafeToNet is a software development company, dedicated to keeping children safe online, and thereby offering reassurance to parents. It employs around 250 staff in the UK and internationally. As a SaaS company, it sells its software protection products to businesses including large telcos for their end customers,

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Fast Start: Innovation

Innovate UK is offering small and micro businesses a share of up to £30 million in grants alongside tailored business support delivered by Innovate UK EDGE. You can apply for up to £50,000 for highly innovative ideas that have a clear route to commercialisation through business growth. Your project must

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Breaking up is hard to do

If you have a company with mixed trading and investment activities, perhaps because you had some excess cash in the business and chose to invest it in stocks and shares, or you bought either residential or commercial property with it for letting out, then you may have walked unknowingly into

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Mileage rates fuelling employees’ misery

If you’re travelling for work and using your own vehicle, you’re probably feeling pretty hard done by. With fuel already exceeding £2 a litre, other running costs increasing, and the mileage rates stuck at 45p per mile for the first 10,000 miles, it’s a miserable situation. The mileage rate has

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MTD for VAT – New penalties for non-compliance

HMRC have issued guidance for VAT-registered business and their agents on how to avoid penalties for non-compliance with the Making Tax Digital for VAT (MTD) rules. In particular, there is a new £400 per return penalty if you file a return but do not use functional compatible software. There are

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Small Business Saturday 2022 applications open

We love our small businesses so just a reminder about Small Business Saturday 2022 The applications for this year’s Small Biz 100 are now officially open! Small Business Saturday is once again highlighting 100 small businesses, one a day for the 100 days leading up to Small Business Saturday (3

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Independent Examinations and Financial Controls

By Caroline Webster – our Charity Specialist It is understandable that charity Trustees believe that an Independent Examination of the annual accounts gives some assurance over the completeness and effectiveness of internal financial controls. However, the review of controls is limited to those areas necessary to support the Independent Examiner’s

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