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Accounts services
- King’s Speech – What did he say? Why does it matter to you?
- The Budget is coming – It is time to prepare
- How to keep your business afloat amid rising HMRC pressures
- SME late payments surge: How to mitigate the impact
- Inside the private equity boom
- Taxes on the rise: A certainty, not a possibility
- Invoice fraud becoming a significant problem
- Total Income Tax and NI income hits new high
- P11D – Remember to report before the July deadline!
- High-income earners need to re-register for child benefit
- The rise of the higher rate taxpayer
- Preparing for the second payment on account – and what happens when you can’t pay?
- New tax year – New tax rules
- HMRC income tax receipts rise by £2 billion
- A third of UK business owners do not know their company’s value – do you?
- Are barriers to investment harming your productivity?
- Spring Budget ushers in property tax shake-up
- Overhaul of non-dom tax status – What does it mean for those affected?
- Holiday accrual to come in for zero-hours workers
- Run your business from home? Get to know your VAT entitlement
- Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 – Companies House changes now in effect
- The Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023 – Understanding the impact on pay in the hospitality sector
- Spring Budget 2024 – everything you need to know
- Spring Budget 2024: At a glance
- Tax basis – Getting ready for the end of the transitional year
- Putting the brakes on excessive National Insurance payments through car allowances
- Please leave a message – HMRC dispute resolution hotline restricted to answerphone
- National Insurance credit scheme will be introduced to tackle child benefit gaps
- Employee benefits and mandatory payroll reporting
- Trivial benefits in kind: A quick guide for employers
- Can you afford to miss your Companies House deadline?
- 10 steps to prevent insolvency
- Going green – The financial benefits of investing in a cleaner future
- Making Tax Digital for Income Tax – Government kills off confusing year-end statement
- The future of payments – Cards, cashless and beyond
- Four new investment zones unveiled and how they could help your business
- Navigating the challenge of late payments
- Autumn Statement 2023 – everything you need to know
- Autumn Statement backs businesses in growth bid, says WMT Chartered Accountants
- Autumn Statement 2023: At a glance
- Your quick guide to paying tax on your pensions
- Funded and thriving: Understanding financing
- Exiting the slow lane – Sustaining growth in uncertain times
- Watt’s up with HMRC? Understanding the new electric car charging rules
- Brexit’s next chapter: EU announces new Green Tax and VAT rules
- HMRC targets overseas taxpayers
- The impact of increased Corporation Tax receipts for business owners
- The benefits of HMRC’s salary advance reporting changes
- Three tips for managing maternity and paternity pay for small businesses
- Could you enjoy a slice of the £1.6bn creative industry tax reliefs?
- When are interest rates likely to fall and why does it matter to you?
- Can you afford a £7,300 fine from Companies House?
- Why companies fail to pay the National Minimum Wage and how to avoid the same mistakes
- What you need to know about the High-Income Child Benefit charge and the upcoming changes
- Eight ways your accountant can boost the success of your business
- New R&D supplementary information form in effect
- Inflation and increased interest rates – What does it mean for businesses?
- The hidden economy: What income should you declare?
- Management accounts: The importance of having a clear view of your business during uncertain times
- Download our expert analysis of the Spring Budget now!
- Spring Budget 2023: At a glance
- New tipping legislation moves ever closer
- Download our expert analysis of the Autumn Statement now!
- Chancellor downplays tax rises in Autumn Statement, but freezes on allowances will hit taxpayers, says WMT Chartered Accountants
- What should you disclose when marketing your business?
- Time is running out to make use of the super-deduction
- What does the former Chancellor’s cut to Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) mean for you?
- Tax-Free Investment Zones – How could they support your growth?
- Are you ready for changes to R&D tax reliefs in 2023?
- The rate of late tax payments interest rates continues to rise
- What does Sterling’s historic value against the dollar mean for investment?
- Chancellor’s Growth Plan – What you need to know
- Government’s mini-Budget giveaway to businesses may take a gamble on inflation, says WMT Chartered Accountants
- Furnished Holiday Lets – What tax reliefs are available?
- MPs support move to crackdown on unqualified accountants
- Top tips for securing finance for new businesses
- Government increases interest rate on late tax payments
- UK register for foreign owners of UK property set to come into effect imminently
- Could Government-backed business loans become permanent?
- Working from home tax relief continues, but fewer employees likely to be eligible this year
- Revenue updates guidance on tipping apps
- Disposals of UK residential property — new reporting regime
- How can you interpret data to inform business decisions?
- HMRC issues tax guidance on app-based tipping
- Keeping a lid on business expenses
- How can you finance a new business?
- Getting to grips with the new National Insurance and Dividend Tax Rates
- How can you yield the most benefit from your cloud accounting software?
- Spring Statement 2022
- What the Government’s Levelling Up White Paper means for businesses
- Get ready for the Plastic Packaging Tax
- HMRC hikes late payment interest rates
Audit services
- Audit rules are changing – Get ready
- Simplifying the complex: Understanding the new revenue recognition model
- Charity Commission issues official warning to education charity: A wake-up call for the charity sector
- International expansion: The impact on audits
- What solicitors should prepare for when handling SRA audits
- UK charity audits: A quick guide for trustees
- Statutory audits: Powering integrity and transparency
Blog
- Labour’s election win – Understanding its impact on your finances
- How to Protect Your International Business from Currency Fluctuations
- WMT unites with Moore Kingston Smith
- Accounting for benefits in kind – Best practice with Snezana Treikale
- Don’t go it alone: Outsource your finance functions
- A recipe for success: Building a high-performance team in hospitality
- The strategic value of outsourcing your payroll services
- Financial strategies to help you retire with confidence
- Are you prepared for the upcoming changes at Companies House?
- What tax allowances and reliefs are available to your hospitality business?
- Make your restaurant more efficient amidst rising costs
- Top 10 weirdest historical British taxes
- The final stretch: Navigating tax planning for the Income Tax deadline
- Energy efficiency as a strategic business move
- Elevating your inventory management
- Why should restaurants consider outsourcing?
- Is your restaurant ready for the proposed National Living Wage increase?
- Six tax deductions to save your restaurant money
- Are comprehensive training programmes the secret ingredient for restaurants’ success?
- Is your restaurant ready to embrace AI and automation?
- Paying trustees for providing services or goods to a charity
- Decoding restaurant analytics: using data to drive better business decisions
- What makes your restaurant stand out?
- Adapting to changes for the disposal of charity land
- Dishing up sustainability: How can restaurants meet net zero goals?
- How can strengthening supplier relationships help your restaurant?
- How much can outsourcing payroll save you?
- Setting the table for success: Key performance indicators for restaurants
- What payroll tax changes do you need to be aware of?
- The Ripple Effect: Consequences of getting payroll wrong
- What is IR35 and what does it mean for me as an employer?
- Is your restaurant ready for summer?
- What is a P45 and when should it be issued?
- What do you need to know about P60 forms?
- Sales boost as hospitality sector bounces back
- What is P11D and how does it work?
- Surge in people seeking jobs in the hospitality sector
- What do you need to know about expenses and benefits?
- How can hospitality businesses cope with shortages?
- How do I account for student loans in payroll?
- How do auto-enrolment pensions work?
- What deductions can and cannot be made from wages?
- Top tips for starting a hospitality business
- Hospitality industry calls for reform of ‘inflexible’ apprenticeship scheme
- How can you comply with minimum wage laws?
- How can you manage your trustee responsibilities?
- Advance in Artificial Intelligence (AI) has huge potential for hospitality
- How does PAYE work?
- What different types of payroll taxes exist?
- Payroll: What documents do I need from new staff?
- Better news for hospitality but ‘no-shows’ still a problem
- What do you need to do before taking on staff?
- What should you do when a deal falls through?
- Duty freeze and coronation plans a double boost for hospitality
- What do you need to know about due diligence?
- Keep customers safe and clean up over the festive period
- Selling your business? Don’t forget about tax
- Why sell your business to unknown buyers?
- Develop a clear strategy for your hospitality business
- Should you sell your business internally?
- Restaurant sector market value grows by £5.4 billion
- Top names back hospitality campaign to fill 400,000 vacancies
- How can you handle cold approaches from buyers?
- How older workers can help hospitality overcome the staffing crisis
- Announcements by the Chancellor – 17 October 2022
- Corporation Tax to rise in April 2023: what you need to know
- Timing is everything: when should you sell your business?
- Selling your business? You need to optimise your operations
- Hospitality festival aims to boost best practice and innovation
- How can you get the best deal for you?
- Hospitality puts the spotlight on apprenticeships
- Leading hospitality lights gather for prestigious conference
- What do you want to gain from selling your business?
- Why do you need a tronc scheme audit?
- Petition calls for special visas for hospitality workers
- Golden opportunity for top UK chefs to shine
- Use smart solutions to cope with food price inflation
- Growing pains of owner managed businesses
- Extended Enterprise Management Incentive valuation period to be wound down
- New Government Tips Bill to bring changes for all hospitality operators
- Thinking about starting an owner managed business?
- Have you claimed the working from home tax relief?
- Business strategy: financing your dreams
- Business strategy: make your systems work for you
- How hospitality can cope with strikes and staff shortages
- Elevate your team and your business will follow
- Business strategy: the key to happy clients
- Jubilee’s bumper boost for hospitality and the Treasury
- Business strategy: zoning in on services
- Training schemes address labour and skills shortage in hospitality
- Business strategy: how to go from now to where?
- Big hitters to join key conference on the hospitality sector
- New initiative helps to make the most of the pavement cafe culture
- Hospitality sector welcomes new law to help tackle commercial rent arrears
- Getting the data right is key to growth in hospitality
- Real-time online sanctions tracker to assist importers and exporters
- Plastic Packaging Tax: what to know as deadline looms
- Payroll: how to get it right
- Restaurants set to recover to near pre-pandemic levels
- Considering starting your own business? Here’s what you need to know
- How would an Online Sales Tax affect your business?
- Tax planning for 2022 – what you need to know
- End of tax-free shopping: what is the impact on tourism?
- Hospitality looks for creative solutions as pandemic restrictions lifted
- HMRC to close helplines one day a week to clear backlog
- Hospitality looks for creative solutions as pandemic restrictions lifted
- Nearly 100,000 taxpayers spread cost of tax bill into manageable monthly instalments, HMRC reveals
- Hospitality industry campaign to end recruitment crisis for good
- NFT fraudsters arrested by HMRC
- Hospitality sector warns of ‘inevitable price increases’ with VAT increase
- Benefits of cloud accounting software far outweigh costs, study reveals
- British IPOs raise more in 2021 than in any other year since 2007
- Prestigious award on the menu for top chefs and managers
- Tax relief: Are you missing out on up to £2,000 a year towards the costs of childcare?
- Student loans: what is changing for graduates in April
- Employers need to check out bank holiday entitlement for Queen’s jubilee
- Making Tax Digital for VAT – What you need to know
- Teenagers spell out what they require from the hospitality industry
- HMRC scam calls have decreased by 97 per cent
- Penalty reform for VAT delayed until January 2023
- Counting the calories an extra headache for hospitality industry
- Businesses that do not use MTD for VAT make more errors than those that do, study reveals
- HMRC’s guidance on reasonable excuses for late tax payments updated
- More investors are choosing sustainability-focused firms
- Late filing penalties waived for one month to give taxpayers more time to prepare 2020/21 tax return
- Did you open presents or submit tax returns on Christmas?
Brexit
- Home Office facing probe over post-Brexit EU resettlement scheme
- Post-Brexit row over Northern Ireland sparks trade war fear
- Recovery in exports, but uncertain outlook for post-Brexit UK, says survey
- Ports consider legal action after border controls delayed again
- What impact are Brexit rules having on EU-UK trade?
- Big fall in businesses exporting to EU ‘caused by Brexit red tape’
- Brexit: UK exports to single market fall amid “unstable” trading environment
- International trade: UK moves into second and final phase of accession to join CPTPP
- Brexit: new competition rules to replace retained EU laws
- Brexit: have your say on the future of customs
- Brexit Freedoms Bill to be brought forward
Business consulting
- What the summer may mean for your business
- Management buyouts – An alternative approach to exit and succession
- SME recovery continues as sustainability and growth take centre stage
- Redundancy regulations are changing – What it means for your payroll and policies
- Five steps to growing your business, safely
- Cars vs Vans – The tax implications of company vehicles
- What are the implications of MTD for ITSA for SMEs?
- UK company law is changing – Get ready now!
- HMRC sets its sights on unpaid crypto tax
- Scaling up – How you can grow your business in 2024
- R&D tax relief schemes to merge in 2024 – What it means for future claims
- Autumn Statement fails to address key challenges for hospitality sector
- Almost 50 per cent of businesses forget vital R&D forms
- What’s on the horizon for taxation?
- How can SMEs learn to thrive, rather than just survive?
- Chief UK economist warns of period of stagnation – How will this affect your SME?
- The rise of the machines – How AI can elevate your SME to new heights
- The benefits of Employee Ownership Trusts
- £56 million overpaid in pension tax
- HMRC sets its sights on SMEs over UK tax gap
- Time to exit: New research shows many business owners are planning ahead
- Are banks supportive of SMEs and willing to assist their growth?
- P11D – Are you ready to report and pay tax on Benefits in Kind?
- Changes to the repayment of Student Loans begin in August
- Fiscal drag bites on earners
- What is the Residence Nil-Band Rate? And why does it matter to you?
- Landlords are latest group targeted by HMRC ‘nudge’ letters
- 683,000 higher rate taxpayers opt out of child benefit as thresholds remain frozen
- Striking the perfect balance: Director’s salary and dividends for 2023/24
- Businesses must get to grips with a Government crackdown on fraud committed by employees
- SMEs to benefit from Chancellor’s change to the Research & Development tax credits schemes
- Chancellor abolishes Lifetime Allowance pensions shake-up
- How does Full Expensing work?
- Crypto transactions to become part of Self-Assessment under new regulations
- How do changes in Corporation Tax affect my business?
- Be prepared for business rate changes as rateable value update takes effect
- Government announces shakeup in the payment of Benefits in Kind
- Fuel rate boost for electric car drivers, but other advisory fuel rates cut
- Businesses must be prepared for imminent changes to Corporation Tax
- R&D tax reliefs are changing in April – Are you ready?
- Make voluntary National Insurance contributions to ensure pension entitlement
- Avoid stress and prepare for payroll year-end
- Income tax thresholds freeze – What it means for you
- What is the ultimate goal of your business?
- R&D relief slashed – Time to plan
- Companies House goes fully digital
- Be prepared for changes to Capital Gains Tax thresholds
- Employment (Allocation of Tips) Bill
- Get the latest insights with the ICAEW Business Confidence Monitor
- How hard-pressed SMEs can obtain business support
- Be prepared for changes to VAT penalties and VAT interest charges
- Penalties for misuse of Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
- Managing costs to offset spiralling inflation – Our top tips for cutting your bills
- Take action – Loans to small businesses drop to record low
- ‘New deal’ for tenants to be delivered in Renters Reform Bill
- National Insurance thresholds are changing – Are you ready?
- Make sure you are making the correct PAYE payments to HMRC
- Our top tips for hiring your first employee
- Expansion of the Trust Registration Service – What you need to know
- Don’t ignore the warning signs that you or a customer’s business is in trouble
- Looking to start a new business? You aren’t alone
- R&D Tax Credits – What is changing next year
- HMRC to launch new mandatory P87 expenses form
- Are you making the most of super-deduction tax relief?
- Retain key staff with salary sacrifice schemes
- Cash flow statements – How to avoid errors that damage your business
- How to make the most of cloud-based accounting software
- Avoid the pitfalls of the SEISS scheme
- Company tax returns must include COVID-19 grants says HMRC
- HMRC focuses on backlog of work by shuttering telephone services
- Top tax tips to help your business save money
- Nearly half a million SMEs at risk of failing due to late payments crisis
- Fears over move to MTD, as few take part in income tax pilot scheme
- Company directors banned for Bounce Back Loan fraud
- New tax rules on holiday lets – What does it mean for owners?
- Most popular options available when setting up a new business
- Can you avoid the P11D process?
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News about WMT
- WMT Wins Best Use of Technology at Inspiring Herts Awards 2024
- Three great reasons to file your tax return early
- New advisory fuel rates for electric company cars
- The increase to Companies House fees: What you need to know
- Using an iPhone? Keep an eye out for tax refund scammers
- New accounting practices outlined for LLPs
- Are you ready for changes to LLP salaried member rules?
- WMT LLP announces sweeping promotions across the firm to recognise team dedication and growth
- Tipping Code of Practice welcome relief to workers despite missed opportunities for clarity, says WMT
- WMT celebrates four Inspiring Herts Awards nominations
- WMT Chartered Accountants take the lead on next-generation talent as Enterprise Advisers to Beaumont School
- WMT Chartered Accountants advise on sale of The Soho Sandwich Company to Around Noon Foods
- Car vs Van – Tax treatment of electric vehicles
- Roadside charging – How to account for credit card payments
- Late interest penalties hit 1.4 million taxpayers – and it could get worse
- Trivial benefits in kind and the advantages they give to employers
- Changes to free childcare, but higher earners will still miss out
- Constantly asked for pay rises? Here is what you need to know about pay in the UK
- The ins and outs of pre-notification of R&D claims
- Employers brace for uplift to the National Minimum Wage
- Avoid these costly VAT mistakes
- What you should include in a business plan
- MTD for ITSA is delayed. Should you still go ahead with cloud accounting?
- How can you achieve taxation ‘quick wins’ before the end of the tax year
- Taxation planning should be an ongoing process, not just pre-Budget
- Think about the support you need for your business
- A new VAT penalty system is now in effect
- Understanding and improving your balance sheet
- Should I take a salary or dividends as a small business owner?
- Tax considerations for gifting to grandchildren in the UK
- Improving your business finances in 2023 and beyond
- Take advantage of the super deduction allowance – before it’s gone
- Implementation of MTD for ITSA delayed for two years
- How to protect your business from inflation
- How to keep workplace gifts tax-free this Christmas
- IR35 rules – What they are and why they matter
- New rules to address the soaring cost of card payment fees
- When can you take a dividend from your business?
- Time to rethink your property portfolio? What you need to consider
- Companies House service goes digital
- Back to basics: Job expenses
- New law delivers even-handed treatment for separating couples
- Back to Basics on Business Mileage
- HMRC set to modernise direct debit system for employer PAYE
- Calls for Government to tackle late payments to small businesses
- I can’t pay my tax bill – what should I do?
- COVID business loans scheme extended for two years
- Group companies – Considerations ahead of the Corporation Tax rise
- Half Marathon Walk for Alzheimer’s Society
- Are you prepared for changes to the income tax basis?
- Survey shows taxpayers are still unprepared for Making Tax Digital switchover
- The benefits of taking on an apprentice
- Be prepared if you decide to adopt a working from home policy
- How to minimise Inheritance Tax bills as house prices surge
- ‘Umbrella’ contracts firm loses £11m tribunal case against HMRC
- Britons lose millions in penalty charges as they cash in LISAs
- Spring Statement 2022: At a glance
- Give yourself Time to Pay
- Cash no longer king as card payments surge in lockdown
- Be prepared for changes to Corporation Tax in 2023
- Accountants critical to the success of SMEs
- How the penalty system for late tax submissions is changing
- Income tax basis periods – What unincorporated businesses need to know
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Tronc & hospitality
- Gratuities and tips – What the delay to the Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023 means for you
- Final version of tipping Code of Practice brings few changes but provides additional time to prepare
- Draft Tipping Code of Practice published; legislation to take effect from 1st July 2024
- Hospitality leaders call for action over non-payment of energy support package
- Where would a Government u-turn on tipping legislation leave us all?
