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May 12 2021

Supporting our clients, Growers Garden

Categories: Food & DrinkLeisure

Throughout the pandemic, we have worked hard to support our clients, offering our help and advice at every opportunity to ensure they can weather the storm and come back stronger. One such client is an innovative food manufacturing company that emerged out of East of Scotland Growers, a farmers’ cooperative whose desire was to reduce more

May 5 2021

Farmers should enjoy their favoured tax status, while it lasts

Categories: AgricultureTaxation

Many commentators were anticipating major changes to Inheritance Tax (IHT) and/or Capital Gains Tax (CGT) in the March budget to raise additional tax revenue to cover the cost of the COVID pandemic. Surprisingly, as it turned out, there were no changes to these taxes apart from the fact that the IHT nil rate band (the more

Apr 28 2021

Double award success for our clients, Derrybeg B&B

Categories: Leisure

With lockdown restrictions throughout the pandemic having effectively closed the doors of many leisure businesses for the past year, there have been those who have used this time to invest in their business and remain connected to their customers throughout. One such business, that we are pleased to call our client, is Derrybeg B&B, an more

Apr 27 2021

Have your say in the Kreston Charities Group survey!

Categories: Charities

To help us understand the impact that the pandemic has had on your financial position and ability to deliver your planned objectives in the short-term, we are conducting a short survey. In order to get a more informed picture, our EQ Charities team are running the survey as part of Kreston UK, a network of more

Apr 27 2021

The leisure sector has re-opened – but with strict rules in place

Categories: Leisure

We have all seen the headlines – “New wave of freedom” and “Staycation stampede” – but there are some less obvious rules which makes this loosening of restrictions not quite the ‘freedom’ some expect. Pubs, cafes, and restaurants were able to re-open from Monday 26 April, however there are strict rules that need to be more