My take on the budget

  So Darling has delivered his budget and we are all now trying to open our bleary eyes and come to terms with some of the smaller print. As I am currently abroad, I haven’t had a chance to read all the press releases or discuss the finer points with colleagues.

Paypal phishing scam

We have a corporate Paypal account in our subsidiary company the Made Simple Group  which is proving quite successful for both our virtual office service sites at Londonpresence.com  and Thisisyouroffice.com .

What’s in a name

I’ve got a lot to thank my parents for and I am sure (hope) that I remind them of this continually. However, there is one thing that perhaps they didn’t think through so carefully and that was the name they gave me. Whilst I myself don’t really have a problem with the name, it would [...]

Food and tax cases again

For those of you who have been following with bated breath my ongoing postings relating to chocolate teacakes, Pringles and their various definitions, I am pleased to be able to say that I’ve just spotted another case that I just have to bring to your attention.

Online Tax Return Statistics

A recent missive from HMRC have confirmed that over 9.5m income tax self assessment returns were issued this year and 5.8m filed on line by the 31 January deadline.  This was an increase of over 50% on the 2008 total where only 3.8m were filed online.  Staggeringly, on the peak day, 390,000 online returns were [...]

Ten years old – who can believe it?

IR 35, known as the intermediary’s legislation, was first announced 10 years ago in March 1999.  The controversial legislation led to many tax cases and still is one of the most contentious areas in legislation.

Team Building for Wimps

My team in the Made Simple Group have suggested to me a team building day out.  They are even happy to do it at a weekend.  Ideas suggested involve ropes, paintball, mud and water and other things that really don’t appeal to me.

Micro Entities

On 26 February the EC issued a legislative proposal for simplifying the financial reporting requirements for micro entities.  This follows a consultation during 2007.  The simplification proposal involves allowing Member States to exempt micro entities from the Accounting Directive and therefore from the requirement to prepare annual accounts in accordance with the law.  In place [...]

Having the right experience

It has long been a matter of speculation in football circles as to whether you needed to have played the game at the highest level to be a good manager. Of course , the same discussion could apply to many walks of life.

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