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News: March 2012 Getting around the new restrictions to get 100% tax relief on buying equipment As we mentioned in the February edition of Tax Tips & News, the £100,000 annual investment allowance

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News: March 2012 Developing a promotional strategy Many business owners and managers think about developing promotional strategies for their firm but fail to put those strategies into action. Effective promotional strategies can prove

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News: March 2012 Savings and investments Enterprise Investment Schemes From 6 April 2012 there are two schemes which you can use to achieve tax relief for investing in small unquoted companies: the seed

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News: March 2012 Caught by the personal allowance trap? Do you know if you are one of the 700,000+ people paying a marginal income tax rate of 60%? This is an increasingly unfair

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News: March 2012 HR tips for small business owners Unlike large multi-national businesses, small owner-managed firms don't have the resources or need for a full time HR person (or people). However, like larger

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News: March 2012 Capital taxes CGT There has been no change in the rates or thresholds for capital gains tax (CGT). The rates for 2012/13 are... Annual exemption - £10,600 Annual exemption for

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News: March 2012 Electrians lose their spark HMRC have just launched their Electricians' Tax Safe Plan, to encourage electricians to declare any income they have kept quiet about so far. If you know

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News: March 2012 Google+ Google+, pronounced "Google Plus", is essentially Google's alternative to the social network "Facebook". Google's new social network is considered to be Facebook's main rival and since its launch in

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News: March 2012 Business tax Simplification The Government wants to simplify the accounts small businesses (partnerships and sole-traders) have to prepare for tax purposes. It is consulting on whether preparing accounts on a

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News: March 2012 Business record checks – review, suspension and relaunch The pilot programme of BRCs began in April 2011 and involved checks by HMRC on the standard of small and medium-sized enterprises'