by ClearwaysAccountants | Mar 12, 2015 | Business tax, Pay, Expenses & Benefits, Small business advice, Tax Tips
HMRC is clamping down on taxpayers it suspects are dishonestly claiming horseboxes, some worth hundreds of thousands of pounds, as company expenses. Lorries can escape the benefit-in-kind legislation as being neither a van nor a car and therefore the vehicle can be...
by ClearwaysAccountants | Jan 29, 2015 | Contractor, Self Employment
It can be a difficult decision deciding to stop working as an employee for a company and set up as a contractor through your own limited company. Some of your work colleagues may be telling you how much better-off you could be but still you wonder if it is the right...
by ClearwaysAccountants | May 31, 2013 | Business tax, Contractor, Freelancer, Self Employment, Small business advice, Tax planning, Tax Tips
The cost of buying a garden office and fitting it out is expensive and can be a major outlay for a smaller business. A garden office is treated for accounts and tax as a capital asset (and not as a business expense). Capital assets purchased for your business,...
by ClearwaysAccountants | Feb 1, 2012 | Business tax, Pay, Expenses & Benefits, Tax Tips
A selection of tables on: expenses that are most commonly deducted in calculating company or self-employment profits for tax; and deductible property expenses. Expense Company self-employed wages and salaries of staff you employ Y Y wages of yourself (you are...
