Further support for mortgage borrowers

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced new proposals to ensure that lenders provide tailored support to mortgage borrowers who continue to face payment difficulties due to the COVID-19 crisis. This follows the additional government

Holiday entitlements if furloughed

The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) commonly known as the furlough scheme is open to all UK employers and will now run until 31 March 2021. From 1 November 2020, employees will receive up to 80% of their salary for hours not worked with a

Business Asset Disposal Relief

Business Asset Disposal Relief used to be known as Entrepreneurs’ Relief before 6 April 2020. The relief was renamed in Finance Act 2020. The name change does not affect the operation of the relief.

Business Asset Disposal Relief applies to the sale

New Furlough Scheme guidance published

The detailed Furlough Scheme rules were updated 10 November 2020.

To use the extended scheme – to 31 March 2021 – the steps that are required are:

Check if you can claim
Check which employees you can put on furlough
Steps to take before

UK and London Living Wages increase

The Living Wage Foundation has announced that its UK Living Wage has risen by 20p per hour from £9.30 to £9.50 per hour. Its London Living Wage has risen by 10p per hour from £10.75 to £10.85 per hour. Over 250,000 UK workers will now receive a pay

Shielding guidance for the clinically extremely vulnerable

Shielding for clinically extremely vulnerable people was paused in England on 31 July 2020. However, the government has now updated its guidance on shielding and protecting people who are clinically extremely vulnerable from COVID-19 to cover the

Barter your way through COVID disruption

While we wait for the magic-bullets that promise to reduce the impact of COVID – vaccines etc – should we be exploring ways to exchange goods and services with our suppliers and customers?
Barter is defined as: the exchange of goods and services

Getting the most out of digital data

One of the great benefits of data stored in an electronic format is that it can be sorted in an endless array of reports. This offers business owners who have invested in accounts software a range of options.

Once you have input basic accounts

Uncertainty

While politicians and scientists try and figure out the best way to control COVID, we are left to pick up the pieces and try and salvage what we can of our businesses.

Our economy is built on various, level playing field assumptions:

Same legal

Online sales platform

If you sell goods or material that can be sold from the internet, have you considered this form of sales platform for your business?

Providing access for your goods on the internet is a sensible strategy. If we have learnt anything from COVID it is

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