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The wait is over for successful Win a Shop candidates       With a fantastic response to the Win a Shop competition, Princes Quay called in the expertise of the judging panel and after a long morning of deliberating – the semi-finalists have been announced. Centre Manager, John Magee was joined by Hull BID’s Kathryn Shillito, FEO’s Jan Brumby, local entrepreneur Jonathan Elvidge and property expert, Mickola Wilson from Seven Dials Fund Management. The team had some very tough decisions to make with a wide range of high-quality entries from delis and cafes to clothing and furniture brands, but the final [...]

  HMRC are implementing Making Tax Digital (MTD) to streamline the way businesses report their finances, bringing with it a bank of new software, regulations and questions. According to the Making Tax Digital Monitoring Businesses’ Awareness of MTD report little over 6 weeks ago , 20% of VAT registered businesses still have no idea when they plan to sign up, and 11% still do not know what MTD is. Now that we have passed the starting line of the 1st April, it is important to get our heads out of the sand and into the cloud.   There are two [...]

Join Us At Our MTD Business Briefing Pink Pig will be hosting Making Tax Digital Business Briefings every fortnight from January through to April 2019. Join us for refreshments as we inform you of what MTD is and offer a step-by-step guide of what you need to do next. See the flyer below for more information: We plan to host these sessions every fortnight from January through to April 2019. Currently scheduled dates are as follows: 13th December 2018: 8am-10am 3rd January 2019: 6pm-8pm 17th January 2019: 8am-10am 31st January 2019: 6pm-8pm  

It's so important to know exactly how the budget is going to impact on YOUR pocket! As we all know, there is a certain amount of money the government so kindly allows us to earn before we must pay income tax. This is called our personal allowance. From April 2019 that is increasing from £11,850 to £12,500. In monetary terms, as that is the threshold before we start being taxed at 20%, it means an extra £130 in your pocket each year. There had been talks of this previously, but the chancellor has decided to introduce this a year early [...]

With the school holidays over (finally!!) Its time to get back into the swing of things. But do you know what funds you are taking from your business and how you plan to do it!? For many, September is almost like a second new year. I don’t mean in terms of the financial year, but it’s the time you get back on track and start fresh. People start heading back to the gym and getting into a normal routine again. One of the most common questions I get asked, mainly from new start- ups, is ‘how much can I take [...]

With exam results still fresh in the minds of the students currently recovering from their hangovers and the new Bondholders’ ‘where it begins’ campaign kicking off this month, we knew exactly who we wanted as our August feature blog. The little sister of the renowned digital marketing company Strawberry – who sit proudly at C4DI, Strawberry Too is just as sweet. As you know, I’m an accountant, not a writer and so I don’t think there is anything I could write that would do an organisation like Strawberry Too the justice they deserve. When we think of that little red [...]

If you make a payment on behalf of a customer for goods and services used by them, you may be able to treat them as ‘disbursements’ for VAT purposes. But what is a VAT disbursement? The definition of a disbursement, in simple terms, is a payment you make to a supplier for a customer and then pass the cost on to them (via an invoice) You may be able to leave these payments out of your VAT calculations because it is the customer (not you) who buys and receives the goods / services. See it as you acting as an [...]