If you sell goods or material that can be sold from the internet, have you considered this form of sales platform for your business? Providing access for your goods on the internet is a sensible strategy. If we have learnt anything from COVID it is the limitations on trade when social distancing – lockdown –

HMRC has published an updated list of deliberate tax defaulters. The list includes individuals, businesses and companies and lists the amounts on which penalties are due and the amount of penalties charged. The current list of deliberate tax defaulters (updated on 16 November 2020) includes a Smethwick based used car business that owed penalties and

Whether you are sitting in your suitably, socially distanced office, surrounded by plastic screens and hand-sanitizer bottles or working from home, motivation is likely to affect your productivity. Even though it is less than a year since the unimaginable became common-place – lock-down, furlough – and a deep fascination with catching the news to see

Shielding for clinically extremely vulnerable people was paused in England on 31 July 2020. However, the government has now updated its guidance on shielding and protecting people who are clinically extremely vulnerable from COVID-19 to cover the period of the new national restrictions from 5 November to 2 December 2020.  Whilst there is no return

It is unlikely that hospitality venues will be open to all-comers for the festive season, which closes down our options to celebrate Christmas and New Year with family, friends and work colleagues. If the present lock-down is effective, from 5 November to 2 December, perhaps there will be sufficient elbow room for limited access to

Gift Hold-Over Relief is effectively a deferral of Capital Gains Tax (CGT) when assets are given away (including certain shares) or sold for less than they are worth to help benefit the buyer. The relief means that any gain on the asset is 'Held-Over' until the recipient of the gift sells or disposes of them.

The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson speaking at a press conference on Saturday night, 31 October 2020, confirmed widespread expectations of a second national lockdown in England to help stem the growing resurgence of the coronavirus. The Government was faced with significant concerns that if they took no action, the NHS could be overwhelmed with death rates

Putting aside the risk of contracting coronavirus, we thought it might be useful for practitioners to consider the upcoming changes for the first quarter of 2021 that practitioners will need to deal with in the coming months. The following list may not be complete, but it definitely indicates that firms will be in for a

If you are considering any change to your business activities that will involve handling any packaged food or raw ingredients, as you would expect, there are a raft of regulations that you will need to consider and adopt. The Department of the Environment has published considerable guidance on the GOV.UK website. Simply Google “Guidance for

The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has delivered his third major statement to the House of Commons in less than a month. This followed the Winter Economy Plan on 24 September and further announcements on 9 October that expanded the scope of the Job Support Scheme and introduced new grants for businesses forced to close because of local