The mini budget – an overview The (not so) mini-budget delivered by new Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng last Friday, had a lot more in it than anyone expected, and lots of great news for small businesses. Here are the headlines: Corporation Tax planned increase from 19% to 25% has been scrapped [...]
If you’re new to the world of buy-to-let there’s a number of things to consider before you’re ready to hand over the keys. From renting a second / third / fourth / etc property as either a handy passive income, or saving towards a portfolio to fund your future plans, [...]
As we steam ahead into the summer months it can be easy to focus on your business making money, rather than what your business needs to be doing in the background. One of those is to focus on tax, to ensure your money is working as hard as it possibly [...]
In this blog our MD, Daniel Mepham, shares his thoughts from the March 2022 Spring Statement. A much anticipated Spring Statement was delivered on March 23rd by Chancellor, Rishi Sunak against a backdrop of war in Ukraine, post pandemic super spending and an ever increasing rate of inflation. With that [...]
For the 2022/23 tax year, tax allowances and the rate bands have, for the most part other than dividends, have remained the same. In this blog we explore what that means in real terms, and how your Vantage Accountant can help you trade as tax efficiently as possible in the [...]
The end of this tax year is imminent, so now is the time to act to ensure you’ve made the most from your available tax saving opportunities in this tax year. In this blog we reveal the top nine things to consider before 5 April, to make sure that your [...]
HMRC enquiries are unwanted and unexpected, and sadly for small business owners they can happen at any time, without warning. Here at Vantage Accounting we appreciate the stress and sometimes large financial implication an investigation can cause, and therefore want to offer our clients a way for them to rest [...]
In this version of our Q&As we ask Lucy Eve, our Client Manager at our Totton branch, 10 questions about Vantage, her career as an accountant, and what she believes the future holds for small business owners. Q1 – As an accountant, what’s the best piece of advice you’d give [...]
Whilst you’re busy running your business, you’ll want to know that your future is also taken care of, usually in the form of a pension. So if you have a Limited Company can it contribute, and how does it work? In this blog we take a look at just that, [...]
Electric cars are no longer a thing of the future! And whilst we’re not quite at the teleporting stage, having an electric car is certainly becoming the car of choice, especially with the planned ban on petrol and diesel cars from 2030 onwards. So what are your options when considering [...]