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Can Charities Claim Back VAT?

Plenty of charities assume they're exempt from VAT, but that can be an expensive assumption. Some end up paying VAT they could have avoided, while others reclaim VAT they were never entitled to, and land an assessment when HMRC looks closely. The truth sits somewhere in between.  Whether your charity can claim back VAT depends on w...

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Guide to Accounting for Architects: Solid Finance Foundations

Architecture is a creative profession run as a business, and the two don't always sit comfortably together. You trained to design buildings, not to track work in progress across a dozen live projects or work out when a stage payment becomes taxable income. Yet the financial side of a practice has quirks that a general guide to small bu...

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