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  • Corona-Covid-financial-help-business

    Coronavirus financial help for Scotland & VAT payments

    Scotland: new sources of Coronavirus financial help
    Three new grants became available this week to help Scottish businesses negatively impacted by the Coronavirus:

    Pivotal Enterprise Resilience Fund
    Creative, Tourism & Hospitality Enterprises Hardship Fund
    Newly Self-Employed Hardship Fund

    Pivotal Enterprise Resilience Fund
    It may be difficult to secure this grant because it will be “needs based”, and your business must meet the criteria […]

    • Corona-Covid-financial-help-business

       Financial help for liquidity support for SME housebuilders

      Scotland: Financial help for liquidity support for SME housebuilders
      An emergency loan fund has been announced which will help housebuilders with liquidity.

      Who can apply?
      SME housebuilders who can demonstrate that:

      They are an existing business in Scotland which has been directly affected by COVID-19
      Their turnover is less than £45 million and they are building five or more homes per annum
      Their business […]

      • Corona-Covid-financial-help-business

        Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme portal open

        This morning, the HMRC portal opened to accept claims for grant support under the ‘Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme’ (CJRS).

        ad+ has set up all the processes necessary to claim the job retention grant on behalf of our clients and any other local businesses that require help.

        It is essential that all claims are accurate, valid, and supported by written evidence.

        If you need […]

        • Corona-Covid-financial-help-business

          Update 3rd April:  Financial aid to tackle Coronavirus impact

           

          This fifth client bulletin concentrates on financial steps business should take now.
          Before highlighting new measures, I would like to provide further update on the most important support measures announced to date:

          [A]  PREVIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS
          UPDATE FOLLOWING ADDITIONAL GUIDANCE

          [1]  Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme

          The HMRC application platform is NOT ready yet: it is expected to be available by the end of April 2020.

          [2]  […]

          • Corona_Protecct_Business

            Coronavirus: Self-Employed and Furloughed Workers

             
            This forth client bulletin concentrates on financial steps business should take now.
            SELF-EMPLOYED SUPPORT ANNOUNCEMENT
            Last night, Chancellor announced the “coronavirus (COVID-19) Self-employment Income Support Scheme“, which you can use if you are self-employed or a partner and you have lost income due to the impact of coronavirus.
            Some of the details from the official HMRC announcement about this important new financial aid package are noted below. Please contact us […]

            • Corona-Covid-financial-help-business

              Act now to secure financial help for your business

              This third client bulletin concentrates on financial steps business should take now.

              Small Business Bonus Relief (to reduce non-domestic rates)
              “Small business bonus relief” is an existing scheme which reduces the amount of non-domestic rates that are paid by small businesses.

              Obtaining this relief is a qualifying criteria for a new cash grant from the described next.

              APPLY:-

              South Lanarkshire Council:  https://www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/forms/form/311/en/small_business_bonus_relief

              North Lanarkshire Council:  https://www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=29202

              Glasgow City […]

              • Coronavirus protect business and wealth

                Coronavirus emergency financial help for business

                Emergency financial help for business
                This is the second in our series of bulletins through which we aim to help all our clients by sharing up-to-date official Guidance and practical tips to combat the financial impacts caused by the Cornonavirus (Covid-19).
                 
                There are five emergency financial aids that I want to highlight today.

                CORONAVIRUS BUSINESS INTERRUPTION LOAN SCHEME
                From today, the Coronavirus Business Interruption […]

                • Coronavirus protect business and wealth

                  Coronavirus – protect your business and your wealth

                  Unprecedented Times

                  ad+ is here to help protect your business and your wealth
                   
                  This is the first in our series of bulletins through which we aim to help all our clients by sharing up-to-date official Guidance and practical tips to combat the financial impacts caused by the Cornonavirus (Covid-19).
                  “Britain is facing something akin to wartime”, according to the head of the Office […]

                    Is business your route to personal wealth?

                    ad+ helps ambitious business owners

                    Whatever type of business you run, we love to assist ambitious business owners.

                    Personal
                    wealth is increasingly being created within successful businesses. 94% of the
                    people on last year’s Rich List were self-made. Technology is producing some of
                    the fastest growing businesses and personal fortunes.

                    Want more good news? Analysis by the Syndicate Room found that the 506 start-ups examined grew […]

                      What’s the best way to keep your customer happy and remain profitable?

                      How hard do you work to make a disgruntled client a delighted client?” asks Paul Shrimpling in his latest ‘business bitesize’ newsletter. That great question, supported by fresh research insights, and practical advice from Paul got my mind buzzing early this morning. We all know that a happy and loyal customer can be a profitable customer. Paul’s advice is especially […]

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                      Being a small family run building company working on multiple construction projects at any one time we were looking to upgrade and adopt a user-friendly accounting software system, preferably combined with Payroll processing. On the recommendation of our accountants, ad+, we were introduced to Xero. Despite the daunting idea of change, thankfully we have never looked back!
                      Lindsay RichardsBook-keeper/Payroll AdministratorLawrie Construction

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