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Voluntary National Insurance contributions let you fill gaps in your National Insurance record so that a missing year counts towards your State Pension. For 2026/27 the rates are £18.40 a week for…
Read articleHelp with childcare costs comes mainly through government schemes rather than through your tax return. The main one for working parents is Tax-Free Childcare , which adds £2 for every £8 you pay…
Read articleFrom 6 April 2029 , salary or bonus sacrificed into a pension above £2,000 a year will be liable to both employee and employer Class 1 National Insurance. The first £2,000 per employee stays free…
Read articleA postgraduate loan from Student Finance England is either a Master's Loan of up to £13,206 or a Doctoral Loan of up to £31,122 for courses starting on or after 1 August 2026. It is paid to the…
Read articleA trial balance is a list of every account in the general ledger with its closing balance at a given date, arranged in two columns: debits and credits . Because every double-entry transaction…
Read articleYou can legally pay no tax on savings interest by keeping it within your allowances and putting the rest in tax-free accounts. For 2026/27 the main tools are the £20,000 ISA allowance , the…
Read articleCash flow is the movement of money into and out of a business over a period. Cash inflows are receipts such as customer payments, loans and new share capital; cash outflows are payments such as…
Read articleThere are five UK student loan repayment plans: Plan 1, Plan 2, Plan 4, Plan 5 and the Postgraduate Loan . Which one applies depends on where you applied for funding and when your course started.…
Read articleInput VAT is the VAT a VAT-registered business is charged on its own business purchases and expenses. You reclaim it by deducting it from the VAT you charge on your sales (your output VAT) on each…
Read articleGovernance, risk and compliance (GRC) is the joined-up way an organisation directs and oversees itself (governance), identifies and manages the risks to its objectives (risk) and meets its legal…
Read articleThe Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA) received Royal Assent on 26 October 2023 . Companies House calls it the biggest change to its role since corporate registration began…
Read articleA credit rating is an independent agency's opinion of how likely a borrower is to meet its debt obligations in full and on time. It is expressed on a letter scale running from AAA , the strongest…
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