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Surprise employees with tax-efficient benefits

It’s very hard to find and keep good employees. Therefore, you might be looking for ways to surprise your team.

Luckily, two planning opportunities are currently available to surprise your team in a tax-efficient manner.

Tax exemption for trivial benefits in kind

Most employees would be pleasantly surprised to receive a bottle of wine, tickets to a football match or the cinema, or […]

What income tax allowances are you entitled to when you rent out residential property?

If you receive rental income from residential property you are required to pay income tax on the profit you make.

Your profit is added to your other income to determine how much income tax you pay.

In order to arrive at your taxable profit, you are allowed to deduct qualifying revenue expenses (day-to-day running costs) and tax allowances. Recent change in one […]

Improve the profitability of your business by satisfying your customer’s values

If you want to grow?much faster?than your competitors you need to satisfy your customer’s value system.
Companies that scored high on four or more elements had recent?revenue growth four times greater?than that of companies with only one high score (on the NPS system for measuring customer satisfaction).
Source: The Elements of Value. HRB September 2016.
It seems self-evident that satisfied customers will buy […]

Win a treat for you and your friend

ad+ Chartered Accountants is giving you the chance to win a treat for you and your friend.  If you are selected as the winner of our free prize draw, you and your friend will enjoy a fabulous Champagne Afternoon Tea for two at 200 St Vincent Street.

Entering the competition could not be easier – for your chance to win, just ‘Like’ our Facebook page and ‘Share’ […]

Return of multi-generational households. Time to re-think?

The surprising findings contained in a new report on household demographics may cause you to reassess your long-term business and personal plans.

As property prices rise, multigenerational households are predicted to grow in popularity over time. A new report from Aviva suggests that based on the rate of growth seen in the past 10 years – and assuming house prices will […]

The value of effective digital marketing for your business

Every business needs to win new customers.  That has remained consistent throughout the years.  But in recent years, the thinking on how best to achieve this has changed considerably.

Although most businesses have a website and social media pages, the online competition has intensified. It is not enough to just have an online presence: you have to find a way to […]

Pension Freedom means more personal responsibility

Although many people welcome the additional choice offered via the new pension regulations, you now have much more responsibility to make sure your pension pot will last for your retired lifetime. That’s a daunting responsibility because that could mean planning for 20 years of spending with no earnings – just living off your pension income.

Our latest guide provides a plain-English […]

Have You Established Anti?Bribery Procedures for Your Organisation?

As a business owner there’s no shortage of plates that you need to keep spinning. As you’re pulled from pillar to post dealing with everything from business development pitches to meeting with new suppliers or vetting distributors, one of those plates named “internal corporate governance” might just start to wobble.

A recent example of this caught our eye: Braids Logistics, a […]