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The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond has delivered the 2018 Autumn Budget. In this blog post, we highlight the key points of his speech. Business £900m has been allocated to small businesses in the form of business rates relief. £650m has also been allocated to rejuvenate British High Streets A new digital services tax at 2% […]

Are you a limited company and do you want to save money on your company’s Christmas do? Well then, you’re in luck, because each year HM Revenue & Customs offer a small tax break for a company‘s Christmas party. Technically there isn’t an allowance for a Christmas party per se, however, HMRC does provide limited […]

Our recently appointed Client Services Manager has been busy helping our clients make savings on their business’s overheads. In this blog, we’ll show you how he was able to save members of The Bodyshop Fellowship significant sums of money. The Bodyshop Fellowship is an organisation that supports Bodyshop’s across the UK. Having heard of the […]

In previous blogs and in our downloadable jargon-free guide to R&D, we have commented on how often businesses miss out on claiming Research & Development (R&D) tax credits. From our experience of working with clients, the digital sector is certainly no exception. Digital agencies often make leaps into the unknown to stay ahead of their […]

We’re proud to announce that we will be sponsoring the Spirit of Enterprise Awards 2018! These awards are all about encouraging enterprise in Great Yarmouth, and having an office in Great Yarmouth ourselves, this is something we’re keen to support. There are many fantastic, independent businesses in the area that often get overlooked, it is […]

We love to help our client’s businesses succeed and thrive. Our Corporate Finance team has recently secured the necessary funding to make a large-scale construction project possible. Our client is a Property Development Company of executive homes in East Anglia, who were seeking funding to build a housing development in Norfolk. Our team, consisting of […]

The interest charged to those making late tax payments has increased from 3% to 3.25%. Interestingly, the amount of interest that HMRC pays on top of refunds owed to taxpayers remains the same at 0.5%. The interest rate for repayments has been at 0.5% since 2009. The accountancy body ACCA says it is “simply unfair” that […]

In our opinion, Making Tax Digital (or for brevity’s sake, MTD) is something to be embraced rather than feared. As with any legislative change, the new MTD reporting rules have forced businesses to reflect on whether they are compliant and what they need to do to ensure they stay on the right side of the […]

We’re passionate about helping our clients achieve their business goals. Recently, our friendly corporate finance team helped one of our clients, a manufacturer of premium food and supplements for dogs and cats to achieve theirs. Anne, the owner of this thriving business prides herself on only using natural ingredients in her products. Thanks to the […]

We’re extremely fortunate to have an in-house corporate finance team here at Aston Shaw. Since the department was formed just over two years ago they have helped many of our clients to achieve their business goals, having already looked at and assisted with applications in excess of £80M. But what exactly is corporate finance? It’s […]