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The £30,000 tax-free termination payment is the most widely known figure in employment tax and the most widely misunderstood. It is not an allowance to be handed to a departing employee; it is…
Read articlePay your VAT a fortnight late and it costs nothing. Pay it sixteen days late and it costs 3% — and the percentages have been heavier since 10 July 2025, when the first penalty rose from 2% to 3%…
Read articleHoliday pay is the pay a worker receives for time off they are legally entitled to take — 5.6 weeks a year , which is 28 days for someone working five days a week. The entitlement is the easy…
Read articleTake money out of your own company without calling it salary or a dividend and you have made a loan to yourself. If it is still outstanding nine months and a day after the year end, the company…
Read articleDe minimis — often misspelt "di minimus" — is shorthand for the legal maxim that the law does not concern itself with trifles, and UK tax is full of the thresholds that put the principle into…
Read articleThe remittance basis is abolished — and yet "remittance" remains one of the most consequential words in UK private-client tax, because the old regime left a long tail: pre-April 2025 foreign…
Read articleA corporate finance consultant is the person a business hires for the transactions it does rarely and the counterparty does daily: raising money, buying a company, selling one, restructuring the…
Read articleAs of 1 September 2026, serious bullying, harassment and violence at work are regulatory misconduct for firms and staff inside the Senior Managers and Certification Regime: the conduct rules now…
Read articleFRTB — the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book — is the market-risk half of Basel 3.1, and in the UK it now arrives in two waves: the standardised approach lands with the rest of Basel 3.1 on 1…
Read articleScaling a business is not doing more of what worked — it is systematically replacing what worked. The habits that build a £1 million company (founder does everything, cash is watched by feel…
Read articleThe FCA motor finance saga has reached its strangest chapter yet: the industry-wide redress scheme — finalised in March 2026 and projected to put around £7.5 billion back into consumers' pockets —…
Read article"Accounting and business advisory" is what the profession calls the work that happens above compliance: not the accounts and returns themselves, but the decisions they should be informing —…
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