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An HS code is the 6-digit Harmonised System number that classifies a product for customs purposes, and only those first 6 digits are common worldwide. In the UK it forms the start of a longer…
Read articleOperational resilience is the ability of a firm to prevent, adapt to, respond to, recover from and learn from operational disruption . In UK financial services it is also a set of binding rules.…
Read articleA company voluntary arrangement (CVA) is a binding deal between an insolvent company and its unsecured creditors, under Part I of the Insolvency Act 1986, to repay all or part of its debts over a…
Read articleHMRC publishes three sets of exchange rates. Monthly rates apply for a whole calendar month and are used for customs and, by choice, for VAT. For October 2026 they are $1.3456 and €1.1665 to the…
Read articleOutput VAT is the VAT due on the taxable supplies a VAT-registered business makes, which in practice is mainly the VAT it charges on its sales. It is declared in Box 1 of the VAT return. You then…
Read articleLiquidity management is the discipline of making sure a business always has enough cash, or immediately available funding, to pay its debts as they fall due . Those words matter, because the…
Read articleAn individual savings account (ISA) is a tax wrapper for savings and investments. Interest, dividends and capital gains inside it are free of UK income tax and capital gains tax , and you do not…
Read articleAn incident response plan is a short written document that tells your people what to do in the first hours of a cyber attack or data breach: who is in charge, who decides what, how systems are…
Read articleYou cannot lawfully avoid all tax on rental income, but you can make sure you pay no more than the law requires. The main legitimate routes are the £1,000 property allowance , the £7,500 Rent a…
Read articleA SIPP (self-invested personal pension) is a personal pension that lets you choose the specific investments in your fund. For tax it is treated like any other registered personal pension: in…
Read articleUKREiiF, often searched as "UK REIFF", is the UK Real Estate Investment & Infrastructure Forum . It is a property and infrastructure forum held in Leeds that brings together investors, developers…
Read articleTax-free cash is the part of a private pension you can take without paying income tax. In most cases it is 25% of the pension , capped across all your schemes by the lump sum allowance of £268,275…
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