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Online Accounting - Twinfield






Recently I met up with entrepreneur Andre Kwakernaat from Twinfield and captured some video footage for our blog. In this video Andre gives some tips for entrepreneurs and explains how they can keep control of their finances using online accounting.

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Emergency Budget slides

 

Today we held a webinar for our clients on the latest budget.  Thank you to all who attended and we hope you found the session helpful.

For those who wish to look at the slides of this webinar please click on the link below.

 

Budget June 2010 webinar slides.pdf

 

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Emergency Budget 2010

 
EMERGENCY BUDGET 2010
 
The following is our overview of the budget focusing on the areas we consider to be of most interest to our clients.

 

Mr Osborne introduced the first coalition government budget by indicating that “the country has overspent, it ...

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Whither the economy?

More than a year has passed since I stated with confidence that Brown would never be elected as Prime Minister, so that's a little crumb of comfort I can take from the result of the election.  But that's about it.

We're now faced with a period of indecision as the political class sorts out some level of compromise that might enable either of the two major parties to lead some form of shackled government.  This suits no-one, ...

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Pension Contributions – why bother?

Government pronouncements on saving for old age always include advice to save via a pension fund, the logic presumably being that these will be regular savings enabling individuals to build a pot of money that will see them through their years of retirement.

 

But if you’re in the private sector, where the only schemes available to you are money purchase schemes, is this advice sound?  Ignore for a moment how funds have ...

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Taxing employment - risky or necessary?

 

The rates paid by employers and employees are all going to rise by 1% from April 2011. People earning less than £20,000 will be immune. Unlike income tax, NIC discriminates between employed and self-employed with lower rates for the self-employed.

The changes are estimated to yield an additional £6.5 billion between 2011 and 2013. This dwarfs the £550 million expected to be raised by the much publicized one-off . ...

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10 London business iPhone apps

At GJ we recently moved from Blackberry to iPhone.  Our IT sister company have synced Outlook to our iPhones and so the iPhone functions just like our old Blackberrys. The iPhone has proved very popular with our team.

Here are my current top 10 business apps:

iThoughts

Mind mapping tool that highlights the benefits of using touchscreen technology. An excellent tool for those that like the mind mapping approach.

Quickoffice

Excel and Word fun...

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Offshore Disclosure: The Second Round

HM Revenue & Customs have announced the details of the New Disclosure Opportunity (NDO).  The NDO was foreshadowed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Budget in April this year and although certain details of the scheme had become public knowledge in the last couple of months, HMRC has not formally published the details until now.

 

The NDO is a rerun of the Offshore Disclosure Facility (ODF) which was available in 2007.&...

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Online analysis and accounting tools

This video was taken by Dennis Howlett on a recent trip to GJ. GJ was one of the first firms of Chartered Accountants to use online accounting systems in the UK.

We recognised that mobile workers and companies coming to the UK needed ...

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Pan-European VAT recovery

At last!  VAT, that great pan-European tax, is coming of age.

If you are a VAT-registered business the principle has always been that input VAT you suffer should be recoverable, regardless of where it's incurred.  But most businesses have found the process of reclaiming VAT suffered outside the territory in which they're registered an absolute nightmare.  For a UK-registered trader to recover VAT from Italy, or Germany...