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Issue 20 - 10.07.2019
- 1. A summer tax incentive for parents
- 2. Managing accountancy fees
- 3. Is it worth transferring ownership of a company car?
- 4. How to avoid bidding problems
- 5. Staff tips and a VAT trap
- 6. Don’t make this redundancy exercise error
- 7. Improving mental health for small business owners
- 8. small business cyber security guide
- 9. Dirty mugs causing sickness absence
Issue 19 - 26.06.2019
- 1. NMW: end of name and shame?
- 2. Can buying Twitter followers boost your business?
- 3. Dividends that can delay your 2018/19 tax bill
- 4. Inappropriate e-mail messaging
- 5. State pension myths
- 6. Is a four-day week a joke?
- 7. How to avoid an idle fine
- 8. HMRC updates expenses toolkit
- 9. Q&A - the tax-free trading allowance
Issue 18 - 12.06.2019
- 1. MTD - practical problems emerge
- 2. Avoid a cash flow crisis
- 3. Tax-free cash from your company
- 4. Where to find the money?
- 5. An entrepreneurs’ relief trap for departing directors
- 6. Who owns your business logo?
- 7. Present but not always correct
- 8. Important changes for investment landlords
- 9. Q&A - is no deal Brexit a force majeure event?
Issue 17 - 30.05.2019
- 1. Don’t forget the data protection fee
- 2. Back to work
- 3. Maximising tax deductions for new equipment
- 4. You’ve overcharged us!
- 5. Can new business owners reclaim VAT?
- 6. Could a virtual assistant help you?
- 7. What’s a community interest company?
- 8. HMRC simplifies MTD bookkeeping
- 9. Q&A - taxing dividends through your code
Issue 16 - 17.05.2019
- 1. HMRC says get ready for IR35 changes
- 2. Are your staff on the take?
- 3. Advance travel expenses - what’s the tax and NI catch?
- 4. Could your data be held to ransom?
- 5. How to create state pension rights
- 6. Health and safety duties owed to the self-employed
- 7. Unlimited holiday madness
- 8. Gossiping director breaches his duties
- 9. Q&A - covert surveillance of staff
Issue 15 - 02.05.2019
- 1. Brexit: help for businesses
- 2. Should you consider equity finance?
- 3. Tax traps for company mobile phone users
- 4. Fight club at work?
- 5. Terminating VAT on your property
- 6. Are you liable for employment contract breaches?
- 7. Online v face-to-face meetings
- 8. HMRC’s updated list of approved expenses
- 9. Q&A - Correcting 2018/19 PAYE report
Issue 14 - 17.04.2019
- 1. MTD still not registering
- 2. Making room for CSR in a busy small business
- 3. How to make staff pay reviews tax efficient
- 4. Who’s in charge when you’re away?
- 5. Can you reclaim VAT incurred by contractors?
- 6. Using Instagram to promote your business
- 7. Good news on late payments?
- 8. £40,000 fine for sending unwanted e-mails
- 9. Q&A - how can we cut our utility bills?
Issue 13 - 03.04.2019
- 1. Crackdown on bogus parking firms
- 2. Are you making the right online disclosures?
- 3. Time to get rid of the company car?
- 4. It’s Ofcom calling about your broadband
- 5. Travel expenses - watch out for the two-year trap
- 6. Get staff to prove themselves
- 7. Hire your office furniture?
- 8. Spring Statement - is no news good news?
- 9. Q&A - VAT claim for a personally owned van
Issue 12 - 20.03.2019
- 1. IR35 consultation launched
- 2. Wise up on waste
- 3. Your rights when HMRC comes calling
- 4. Business heading for trouble?
- 5. Road traffic law changes - are you affected?
- 6. How to identify fake LinkedIn profiles
- 7. Customers, expenses and a tricky VAT trap
- 8. Do you need harassment training?
- 9. Using a UK passport after Brexit
Issue 11 - 06.03.2019
- 1. The GDPR’s post-Brexit effect
- 2. Who’s responsible for keeping PPE clean?
- 3. Can the wrong address cost you extra tax?
- 4. How to pick a delivery firm
- 5. Business travel - how much VAT can you reclaim?
- 6. Implement cost cutting with staff approval
- 7. Director disqualification - how to avoid it
- 8. Employers - watch out for the extra payday
- 9. Don’t miss the benefits payrolling deadline
Issue 10 - 20.02.2019
- 1. New HMRC guidance on crowdfunding
- 2. Profiting from a dividend
- 3. Can you reclaim VAT on cars?
- 4. Cold comfort
- 5. Why you need a shareholders’ agreement
- 6. Are travel discount cards a taxable perk
- 7. Thousands of firms illegally charging for card payments
- 8. Redirect .eu domain names
- 9. why do employees leave small businesses?
Issue 09 - 06.02.2019
- 1. Changes to the law on payslips
- 2. Worker jailed for data breaches
- 3. MTD - no way to avoid it!
- 4. How to improve productivity
- 5. Which is more tax efficient, loans, HP or credit cards?
- 6. Gender stereotyping in ads to be banned
- 7. It’s personal: when families in business fall out
- 8. New VAT rules for some vouchers
- 9. HMRC concedes defeat on directors’ tax forms
Issue 08 - 23.01.2019
- 1. New travel expense rules for employers
- 2. Dyslexia duties
- 3. Last chance to change your tax code
- 4. Directors driving badly
- 5. “Hands up”, it’s a company hijacking!
- 6. Is annual appliance testing a legal requirement?
- 7. Tax relief cuts accountant’s costs
- 8. Brexit: new help for businesses online tool
- 9. Your hidden personal printing costs
Issue 07 - 09.01.2019
- 1. When the boss asks for a hug
- 2. Time to bin paper receipts for good?
- 3. Benefits in kind - how to avoid losing the exemption
- 4. Access to toilets for mobile workers
- 5. Don’t pay tax, invest instead
- 6. A very vegan new year?
- 7. Flexible insurance brings savings
- 8. Exemption for powering electric cars
- 9. Q&A - Is training for a new job tax deductible?
Issue 06 - 12.12.2018
- 1. Changes to EU VAT registration
- 2. Why you need a contingency plan
- 3. Tax relief for being a club supporter
- 4. Small shops can win big online
- 5. Closing a company - can you take tax-free profits?
- 6. A small December bonus can save you thousands
- 7. No right to a refund?
- 8. Data protection fee online assessment tool
- 9. Students receiving fake tax refund e-mails
Issue 05 - 28.11.2018
- 1. Last minute festive closures
- 2. Time for a price re-match?
- 3. Chancellor gets tough on entrepreneurs’ relief
- 4. Managing mental health
- 5. Selling an unregistered business - is it VATable?
- 6. Health and safety in shared premises
- 7. Allergies - know your responsibilities
- 8. AIA gets a boost
- 9. Responsibility for IR35 changes
Issue 04 - 14.11.2018
- 1. The 2018 Budget highlights
- 2. Could you be liable if employee data is misused?
- 3. The trouble with pool cars
- 4. Name change pitfalls
- 5. Invest in your company not a bank
- 6. Ripped off by an H&S consultant?
- 7. Protecting your good name
- 8. A £20,000 Small Business Grant to “go global”
- 9. Mandatory modern slavery statements?
Issue 03 - 31.10.2018
- 1. Ethnicity pay gap reports
- 2. Contracts: is it safe to use the word “shall”?
- 3. Partial exemption - how to maximise VAT recovery
- 4. How to cut the cost of motor cover
- 5. Company shares - get your money back tax free
- 6. Staff working too much?
- 7. What is tortious liability for breach of contract?
- 8. HMRC to issue more notices to employers
- 9. Q&A - can I pay an expenses allowance tax free
Issue 02 - 17.10.2018
- 1. IR35 contractor sues HMRC
- 2. Pile up some stock?
- 3. Get a little extra VAT back on out-of-pocket expenses
- 4. Invoice finance to be more accessible to SMEs
- 5. Is compensating an employee taxable?
- 6. On call and unpaid?
- 7. Is an advisory visit from the ICO a good idea?
- 8. HSE fines small business £32,000
- 9. The perfect business card revealed
Issue 01 - 03.10.2018
- 1. Where’s your insurance certificate?
- 2. Any duties once the directorship ends?
- 3. Corporation tax refunds and directors’ loans
- 4. Should you go plastic free?
- 5. Selling off your company’s assets
- 6. Get them to work on time
- 7. Warranty or indemnity?
- 8. New VAT limit for digital supplies
- 9. Q&A - must all staff pay go through the payroll?

Productivity

12 June 2019

Present but not always correct

The idea that staff are always ready for action should make all bosses happy. But so-called “presenteeism” is not always good news. What can you do about it and what are the benefits to the business?

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