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Newsletters are useful marketing tools for businesses of all shapes and sizes. Whether you send your newsletter out via email or in the post, it’s a useful way of touching base with existing customers, potential customers, and everyone in between.
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The Approved Mileage Allowance Payments (AMAPs) scheme allows employers to pay tax-free mileage allowances to employees who use their own cars for business journeys, as long as the allowance paid does not exceed the approved amount.
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Incorporation involves the disposal of an existing self-employed or partnership business to a new entity (‘person’) in exchange for shares in the company. Any assets of the business (e.g. the business’s premises) are transferred to the company which then carries on the business as successor to the former self-employed owners.
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Page load speed affects SEO and online presence, which in turn affects your marketing campaign. Slow websites have high bounce rates and fewer page impressions per visit. In an ideal world, pages should take no more than four seconds to load. Any slower, and it’s a slippery slope.
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In September 2009, the appellant made a claim for input tax it claimed it had incurred on postage totalling £383,599, which HMRC rejected in 2010.
The appellant carried on a mail order business and used the services of Royal Mail to despatch its orders and also to distribute advertisements.
It was accepted that at the time the Royal Mail made those supplies to they were considered to be exempt from VAT.
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Malcolm Finney looks at the quirky deed of variation and its use for inheritance tax purposes but warns against its abuse.
It is, of course, impossible for a testator to predict what circumstances may exist at the date of their death. In particular, they will not know the circumstances, financial or otherwise, of their proposed beneficiaries.
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As explained in Tips 2 and 3, from 6 April 2017 alternative valuation rules apply to work out the taxable value for most benefits where provision is made via an optional remuneration arrangement, such as a salary sacrifice scheme.
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Most accountants will set up a website when they first start practicing, and then forget about it. But website styles and technology move quickly, and if you don’t keep up your website and your practice will be left behind.
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