Earlier this month I blogged about “Small family-owned businesses to be penalised this April“. After reading Jaffa Brown’s recent blog post on the same subject I decided to check in with parliament.gov.uk and see if my local MP, Gerald Howarth, had signed up to support Early Day Motion 714 against the proposals…
The Early Day Motion [...]
Entries from February 23rd, 2008
Income Shifting: My Letter to Gerald Howarth, MP for Aldershot
February 23rd, 2008 · 3 Comments · Business, General
Tags:Family Business·Government·Income Shifting·Small Business·Tax
UK construction companies expected to pay £47 million in late filing penalties
February 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Construction (new CIS)
A recent article AccountingWeb reveals some rather interesting statistics on the CIS penalties for late monthly returns that UK Construction Companies have racked up since last October:
Rebecca Benneyworth writes:
The number of penalty notices issued for late CIS monthly returns are shown as:
October 2007: 35,919 (> £3.5M)
November 2007: 44,921 (> £4.4M)
December 2007: 37,618 (> £3.7M)
She adds, [...]
Tags:Construction·Construction Industry Scheme·Fines·Government Gateway·HMRC·New CIS·Payroll·Sftware·Tax
Noise, what noise? Introducing the Jawbone Bluetooth Headset
February 19th, 2008 · 10 Comments · General, Hardware and Gadgets
It was time this month to look for a noise cancelling headset that would allow me to continue to hold productive business conversations while driving, walking near traffic, near construction/building sites, near noisy air conditioning units and while looking after my 7 month old son. I also wanted something that I could wear whilst at [...]
Tags:Bluetooth·Gadgets·Headset·Jawbone·Mobile Phone·Windows Mobile
Small family-owned businesses to be penalised this April
February 6th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Business, General
The Government is planning to launch a new Family Business Tax in this year’s Budget, which it claims is intended to tackle “income shifting”.
Please take a few moments to tell them why they should reconsider their plans, and forward this blog post to anyone you think might also be concerned at the new tax rules.
Remember [...]
Windows Vista SP1: Ready, but not available yet?
February 6th, 2008 · No Comments · General
Microsoft yesterday announced that Vista Service Pack 1 was RTM’ed (Release to Manufacturing), but there it will not be available until mid-March.
The release of Vista Service Pack 1 coincides with the release of Windows Server 2008, which as it happens, shares 95% of the same code base with Vista.
Dissapointing Vista sales figures in 2007 indicated that [...]
Windows Server 2008 is now available
February 5th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Business, General, Technical Articles
Last month I posted a popular article on building your own small and energy efficient home or small office server. Late last night (UK time), Microsoft released the next generation of their popular “Windows Server” platform.
Windows Server 2008 makes massive improvements on the architecture of Windows Server 2003, and shares 95% of the code base [...]
Tags:Home Server·Microsoft·Server 2008·small business server·windows server