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Client In Focus: Commercial Property Advisors
Welcome to ‘Client In Focus’, where we introduce you to one of our many wonderful clients. If you would like to be featured, please get in touch. In todays article we would like to introduce you to Ben Sayer of Commercial Property Advisors. What does your business do? We provide a business rates review service on a risk free ...
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January: here to stay?
If you’ve been following our blogs and newsletters, you will have noticed we’ve mentioned Making Tax Digital (MTD) once or twice. The reason being that MTD represents a significant change to the way self assessments will be submitted/managed. Thus it’s not something that can or should be ignored. As a reminder, MTD is the new sel...
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Autumn Statement 2022
On Thursday 17 November Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced his first Autumn Statement since being called to the position of Chancellor. This was never going to be a Statement of exciting promises. Rather, it was more a case of damage limitation. Unfortunately the Statement delivered what many predicted – higher taxes and spending cuts....
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Meet Payroll and Pensions Administrator, Amanda Bailey
What do you do at Whittock Consulting Ltd? I look after payroll and pensions end to end. I set up new employers PAYE scheme with HMRC, set up new pension schemes, organise declarations with the Pension Regulator, manage auto enrolment, reassessing staff, keeping up to date with legislation and new procedures. All in all, quite a varied...
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Bouncing Bounce Back Loans
In 2020, against the backdrop of a global pandemic, as a measure to help businesses who were struggling, the British government launched a solution known as the ‘bounce back loan scheme’. The idea was that businesses would be able to easily raise finance, at a low rate of interest in order to help with their recovery. The problem i...
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Reversing the budget
Anybody for a round of Hokey-cokey? It's hard to keep up with Downing Street right now. Kwasi Kwarteng's "mini budget" turned out to be anything but “mini” in terms of the repercussions. As a result, he was swiftly removed from position, and Jeremy Hunt installed in his place. And as the new Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt was certainly not s...
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The Mini Budget
A month ago we discussed the campaigns and proposals of Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak as they went head to head to vie for the position of Prime Minister. You can read the blog here. Now, as we know, on 5 September, Liz Truss was announced victorious, being confirmed the UK’s new Prime Minister. Her victory was built very much on her pro...
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Electric cars on the charge!
It’s no secret that the world of petrol and diesel powered cars is coming to an end. And to help speed up the transition, the government have been offering various incentives to encourage limited companies to switch over to electric vehicles. But with so many different ways of purchasing a vehicle, it can be quite confusing as to wha...
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The countdown to be the next Prime Minister – and what it means for you
After the past few years it’s hard to imagine a time where politics haven’t formed such a prevalent part of our daily discussions. Whether it’s been Brexit, lockdowns, or recessions, there seems to have been no shortage in political headlines. And over the next couple of weeks it’s only likely to intensify as the campaign to be...
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Meet Accounts Assistant, Jed Hughes
What do you do at Whittock Consulting Ltd? My role is quite varied and includes amongst other things: Bookkeeping on a weekly/monthly/quarterly basis Preparation of monthly payrolls including pension submissions Preparation of monthly CIS submissions Preparation of management accounts for board meetings Assisting with ...
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