News: November 2013 The employer's £2,000 NIC allowance This valuable allowance is due to start for all businesses on 6 April 2014, and simply exempts the employer from the normal employer NICs of

News: November 2013 Know your competitors Businesses need to know their competition, especially in today’s hyper-competitive business environment. Knowing what the competition is up to allows you to develop unique selling points (USPs)

News: November 2013 Guidance on the general anti-abuse rule (GAAR) This controversial measure allows HMRC to nullify an arrangement which is held to be abusive in terms of avoiding tax. This is all

News: November 2013 Tips for being a better manager No matter how big or small a business is, good managers will always make a business better. What traits make a highly effective manager?

News: November 2013 Auto enrolment of employees into a pension scheme The Auto Enrolment Scheme is also controversial but in a different way, as it imposes a legal obligation on employers to enrol

News: November 2013 Health and wellbeing tax plan The latest campaign from HMRC is aimed at chiropodists, psychologists and homeopaths who feel they might not have declared all of their income. It offers

News: November 2013 Transferable tax allowance for couples From 2015/16, married couples and civil partners can transfer up to £1,000 of their personal allowance to their partner, but only if neither individual pays

News: November 2013 Tax diary of main events for October / November 2013 Date What's Due 1 November Corporation tax for year to 31/01/13 19 November PAYE & NIC deductions, and CIS return

News: October 2013 Pinterest Marketing Strategies With over 27 million unique visitors and in excess of 200 million page views a day, Pinterest is one of the fastest-growing social media sites out there,

News: October 2013 Tax charge on taking a loan from a close company - more bad news to come? As I have mentioned in previous editions of the Tax E-News, there has been