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BTMK Solicitors LLP
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When you are a firm of solicitors that has undergone a series of transformations, it’s encouraging to know that your accounting support is rigorous enough to go through those changes with you, and still provide consistently sound advice and assistance. That’s what Saul Caplan, partner at BTMK Solicitors LLP, feels he gets with the firm’s accountants Rickard Keen.
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Upcoming events
Getting Ready to File Your VAT Return Online
For the majority of businesses filing VAT online will become compulsory from 1 April 2010. This means that you will soon have to complete the information online rather than manually filling out the VAT100 form and putting it in the post.
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Accountants Help Media Experts Beat Downturn
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Essex-based chartered accountancy firm Rickard Keen has welcomed fast-growing creative specialists Page Media into its ever-expanding portfolio of clients.
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Online VAT Systems Upgraded
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Act Now To Save On Tax
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With money tight for many individuals and businesses, and tax rises on the horizon over the coming years, it makes sense to start planning now for the end of the financial year, to ensure no-one is paying any more tax than necessary.
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The Tax Health Plan (THP)
HMRC have obtained information from various sources, including NHS trusts, private hospitals and medical insurers and are introducing the THP as an opportunity for medical professionals with tax to pay to get their affairs up to date with the benefit of a fixed penalty.
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HMRC New Scam Emails
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HMRC have issued a warning about a new scam email which is being sent from ‘HMRC Online Services – test@test.com’ stating that the recipient has one new ALERT message and should log onto their Online Account to read the message.
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Employment Rights - Statutory Limits
The limit on the amount of the compensatory award for unfair dismissal is set to decrease from 1 February 2010. The current maximum of £66,200 is to reduce to £65,300, due to the decrease in the retail prices index measure of inflation. This new limit applies where the event giving rise to the entitlement to the payment arose on or after 1 February 2010.
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Dispensations - New Online Application Form
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Tax Codes Being Issued
HMRC are advising employees that between January and March 2010 they will be issuing new PAYE coding for 2010/11. The tax codes should reflect the individual’s personal circumstances and include the tax allowances and reliefs that individuals are entitled to.
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Scrappage Scheme
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The Vehicle Scrappage Scheme is a voluntary scheme for motor dealers under which participating dealers give buyers a £2,000 discount off the purchase price of a new car (or certain types of small van) in exchange for scrapping their old qualifying vehicle.
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Statutory Payments
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Using Your Own Car For Work
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HMRC have updated their guidance on using your own vehicle for work. The guidance needs to be read in conjunction with the mileage rates which for those using their own car for work purposes are unchanged at 40 pence a mile for the first 10,000 miles dropping to 25 pence a mile thereafter.
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