by ClearwaysAccountants | Dec 27, 2014 | Budgets and Autumn statements, Contractor, Self Employment, Tax Tips
Are you affected by the changes for employees of umbrella companies? Employees are not generally able to offset the costs of travelling between their homes and their workplaces, even where the employees are working on short term contracts for a number of different...
by ClearwaysAccountants | Dec 17, 2014 | Budgets and Autumn statements, Business tax, Capital taxes, Freelancer, Self Employment, Small business advice, Tax planning
Changes on the rules when you transfer your freelance business to a company To date, a freelancer carrying out a trade could transfer his or her business to a Limited company. The business built up over the previous few years could be valued, not only are the...
by ClearwaysAccountants | Dec 7, 2014 | Contractor, Freelancer, Self Employment, Tax Tips
Nurses – should your extra days be worked through your own limited company? At Clearways Accountants we have been contacted by a nurse working through an agency for one or two days a week (five days a month) asking whether he should work through a limited...
by ClearwaysAccountants | Nov 30, 2014 | Contractor, Freelancer, IR35
HMRC produced the Business Entity Tests and a series of questions for contractors to use with the idea of giving contractors a good idea of whether IR35 applied to their business. But there were serious problems with the tests… The Business Entity Tests were...
by ClearwaysAccountants | Nov 23, 2014 | Contractor, Freelancer, Pay, Expenses & Benefits, Self Employment, Small business advice, Tax Tips
When a company incurs entertaining expenditure – what are the tax rules? Most people understand that client and customer entertaining is not allowed as a business deduction, but what about related expenditure such as travel, and what about staff entertaining?...
