Category Archives: Business Support

Lock-down 3 & business considerations

It’s official. We are in lock-down 3 in England, Scotland following suit and the other regions expected to enforce similar restrictions. It is evident that any freeing impact of the vaccine roll-outs

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Happy New Year 2021

There really hasn’t been much to feel merry about during the recent holiday period. Lock-down and the need to socially distance has kept many of us under virtual house arrest. Thankfully, the recent

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More Red-Tape

True to predictions, Boris Johnson and his team achieved a trade deal with the EU to operate from 1 January 2021, and although there are generally no tariffs to pay on the movement of goods back and

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New regulations to exempt payments for coronavirus antigen tests from NICs

The Social Security Contributions (Disregarded Payments) (Coronavirus) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 will come into force on 25 January 2021 to provide that payments made by employers to employees to cover or reimburse the costs of coronavirus (COVID-19)

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UK Export Finance (UKEF) – Export finance for smaller businesses

UK Export Finance (UKEF) is the export credit agency and a ministerial department of the UK government. The UKEF helps UK companies by providing insurance to exporters and guarantees to banks to share the risks of providing export finance. In

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Return to 2019 trading conditions too good to be true?

Right now, any reference to a return to 2019 trading conditions seems to echo the title of this short article, too good to be true. Common sense tells us that we are unlikely to emerge largely, COVID-free until the end of 2021 and additionally, many

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New Christmas grant for pubs

The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has announced an additional one-off £1,000 Christmas grant for wet-led pubs in tiers 2 and 3 who will miss out on much needed business during the busy Christmas period. A wet-led pub is a bar which doesn’t serve

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Double entry demystified

Most business owners will know the difference between a profit statement and a balance sheet. Both are created from a process known as double-entry bookkeeping. If asked to consider two aspects of a £50 purchase from a stationery store, most would

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