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Issue 22 - 20.09.2017
- 1. Start preparing for the GDPR
- 2. Buy-to-lets, landlords and fire extinguishers
- 3. How will the lower dividend nil rate affect you?
- 4. Avoiding a fine for late accounts
- 5. Lending to your business tax efficiently
- 6. Performance management = constructive dismissal
- 7. The less obvious workstation DSE hazards
- 8. Will the “staircase tax” survive?
- 9. More trouble filing accounts
Issue 21 - 07.09.2017
- 1. New employees and GCSE grades
- 2. Entertaining costs - getting the VAT back
- 3. Sole director shareholders at risk!
- 4. Free flowing alcohol and binding contracts
- 5. Is parking at work a taxable perk?
- 6. Prosecuted for illegally sharing personal data
- 7. Can you be put in the dock for a customer’s crime?
- 8. Employment tribunal fees abolished
- 9. Compare every finance option
Issue 20 - 12.07.2017
- 1. £2.7 million fine over pricing
- 2. Are minimum performance levels binding?
- 3. Can HMRC insist directors submit tax returns?
- 4. Caught by the new payment practices legislation?
- 5. A potentially healthy perk that’s also tax and NI free
- 6. Who should deal with an employee grievance?
- 7. Directors - take care to avoid “unfair prejudice”
- 8. Acas - hot weather advice for employers
- 9. Don’t miss the Companies House pop quiz
Issue 19 - 28.06.2017
- 1. How will the election result affect tax?
- 2. Will you pay their costs if you refuse mediation?
- 3. Are company childcare schemes still worth it?
- 4. Finance directors can improve your business
- 5. Is it the right time to start using Bitcoin?
- 6. Must employees disclose an intention to compete?
- 7. When can spousal maintenance be varied?
- 8. Card surcharges banned from January 2018
- 9. Support for landlords from HMRC
Issue 18 - 14.06.2017
- 1. Avoiding ransomware attacks
- 2. How the courts punished a breach of duty
- 3. Tax-free personal use of your company credit card
- 4. Health surveillance and record keeping
- 5. Turn new ideas into lower tax bills
- 6. Constructive dismissal for doing “officey things”
- 7. Car schemes that keep a lid on costs
- 8. A new faster way to bank cheques
- 9. New PSC rules for Scottish businesses
Issue 17 - 01.06.2017
- 1. New auto-enrolment timetable
- 2. New debt recovery rules for businesses
- 3. Is there an advantage to paying a non-working partner?
- 4. Can you save money by filing your own accounts?
- 5. Moving premises - how to maximise the tax allowances
- 6. £36 million NMW blunder
- 7. Display screen equipment assessments
- 8. Half would fold if a key person died
- 9. New “2016 Tax Report” scam
Issue 16 - 17.05.2017
- 1. PSC registers: important changes
- 2. Forcing a director out
- 3. Speeding fines: tougher penalties brought in
- 4. Are potted plants a potential problem?
- 5. Can your business pay for (tax-free) pensions advice?
- 6. The risks of providing services “free of charge”
- 7. Company drivers, parking fines and reclaiming VAT
- 8. PPI claims - the end is in sight
- 9. MTD law postponed
Issue 15 - 04.05.2017
- 1. New guidance on salary sacrifice
- 2. Mobile phones - are you paying for too many minutes?
- 3. Avoid tax traps when personally using company cash
- 4. Are transactions with your company legal?
- 5. Cashback websites for businesses
- 6. Loans to employees and redundancy
- 7. Getting one up on the competition
- 8. Open water for businesses
- 9. A webinar for new directors
Issue 14 - 21.04.2017
- 1. Preparing for Brexit
- 2. Can “off the record” bypass confidentiality rules?
- 3. Tax deductions - what’s the best company car?
- 4. Health and safety costs small business £90,000
- 5. How to ensure tax relief for your home broadband
- 6. Can employees sit on their own chairs?
- 7. A different type of share in your company
- 8. Companies fined for checking customer details
- 9. The Pensions Regulator to make spot checks
Issue 13 - 05.04.2017
- 1. The Spring Budget
- 2. How much should an investor pay for shares?
- 3. A tax-saving solution for directors’ loans
- 4. Motoring costs - being green really can save you money
- 5. Can the courts change your will?
- 6. Previous companies and the right to be forgotten
- 7. This working environment is making me ill!
- 8. HMRC’s employment status service tool
- 9. The new “Business and Property Courts”
Issue 12 - 22.03.2017
- 1. Driving, mobiles and penalty points
- 2. Business rates during refurbishment works
- 3. Income shifting for unmarried couples
- 4. How far must you go to prevent slips and trips?
- 5. Careful stocktaking equals lower tax bills
- 6. The NMW and family members
- 7. Topping the Google charts
- 8. New insolvency rules will benefit creditors
- 9. Free seminars for directors
Issue 11 - 08.03.2017
- 1. Pension rights - common law spouses
- 2. Pay trap for company owner managers
- 3. Making Tax Digital - the latest news
- 4. E-mail receipts and marketing leads
- 5. How much VAT can your company reclaim on fuel?
- 6. Self-employed but really employed
- 7. Does your business need cyber insurance?
- 8. Last date for the old £1 coin
- 9. Domain name invoice scam
Issue 10 - 22.02.2017
- 1. Gender pay gap reporting
- 2. What does “by close of business” mean?
- 3. Can you put losses to a new use?
- 4. Is a youngster allowed to run a company?
- 5. Tax deductions for personally paid for equipment
- 6. Letting the train take the strain
- 7. Rent out your property and rent another
- 8. New access to pensions advice
- 9. New reporting rules for payment practices
Issue 09 - 08.02.2017
- 1. Money laundering changes
- 2. Auto-enrolment and employees who change their minds
- 3. Salary sacrifice schemes get a reprieve - for now
- 4. £130,000 fine for attending a meeting
- 5. The new IR35 rules - what’s the latest?
- 6. Should you carry out sanctions checks?
- 7. Helpful changes to inheritance tax
- 8. The national minimum wage campaign
- 9. Fake company investigations inquiry notice
Issue 08 - 25.01.2017
- 1. Seven-year ban for Mr Perfect
- 2. Brexit and the new GREAT.gov.uk portal
- 3. How much tax will you pay on your income in 2017/18?
- 4. Can minority shareholders block company sale?
- 5. Are non-cash termination payments tax free?
- 6. The key questions to ask training providers
- 7. Do you have to hold board meetings?
- 8. one-man company pension scams
- 9. New accounts filings system
Issue 07 - 12.01.2017
- 1. Important ruling on varying contracts
- 2. Food at work - is it safe for you?
- 3. Using company money to pay your tax bill
- 4. The hidden personal guarantee
- 5. Less tax relief for company pension contributions
- 6. Outside of work events and the company’s liability
- 7. Director disqualified for pricing agreement
- 8. Telephone Preference Service moves to ICO
- 9. Company name availability checker
Issue 06 - 14.12.2016
- 1. NMW, NLW and NI changes
- 2. The common law spouse myth
- 3. The last ever Autumn Statement - what’s in it for you?
- 4. Suppliers and your confidential information
- 5. Don’t miss the pension top-up deadline
- 6. Special furniture for large employees?
- 7. Equipment in rented premises - who gets the tax relief?
- 8. New guidance on confirmation statements
- 9. Break clause
Issue 05 - 30.11.2016
- 1. PSC reporting rules to change
- 2. Get ready for the new £1 coin
- 3. A tax deduction for insulating your home office?
- 4. More firms caught out by bogus invoices
- 5. Can making a gift to your company trigger a tax bill?
- 6. Self-employed or your employee?
- 7. Has the contract been “frustrated”?
- 8. New finance matchmaking service
- 9. Fake UKPC parking tickets
Issue 04 - 16.11.2016
- 1. Personally liable for data protection?
- 2. Is it too soon to pay a dividend?
- 3. The tax-free way to better health
- 4. A mates rates logo or a risky design?
- 5. Ads placed on social media
- 6. Can you break into a desk that’s been locked?
- 7. New expenses exemption can increase employers’ costs
- 8. Road tax winners and losers
- 9. Apprenticeship levy - the latest
Issue 03 - 02.11.2016
- 1. New style accounts rejected
- 2. Delegated tasks and the directors’ liability
- 3. Salary or a dividend, which is right for you?
- 4. You’ve got mail, but do you want it?
- 5. What are your business rates going to be?
- 6. What should you look for in a rewards provider?
- 7. How to escape increased taxes on company loans
- 8. Severe disruptions to travel
- 9. Freedom to stop distractions
Issue 02 - 19.10.2016
- 1. Review of directors’ pay and duties
- 2. £5,000 fine for not registering with the ICO
- 3. Are you reclaiming all the VAT you can on company cars?
- 4. Train travel: delays and compensation rights
- 5. How to ensure a tax deduction for sponsorship costs
- 6. Fixed-term contracts and employee rights
- 7. Auto-enrolment - where do you stand with part timers?
- 8. Have you overlooked student loan repayments?
- 9. Temporary all clear given for free Wi-Fi
Issue 01 - 05.10.2016
- 1. Latest on Prompt Payment Code
- 2. What’s the right amount of stock?
- 3. Use your pension fund for a company loan
- 4. Fined £40,000 for sending marketing texts
- 5. Tax relief for personal credit card charges
- 6. Complaints ignored - that’s £27,000!
- 7. Can we save money by having unisex toilets?
- 8. Director jailed for health and safety breach
- 9. Internal fraud hits 20% of small businesses

Pensions

05 October 2016

Use your pension fund for a company loan

Your company needs cash to buy new equipment. The bank might lend it, but the interest rate is high and there are conditions. Your pension fund has money; can you use it to provide a more flexible loan?

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