Mar 22 2019 What should be in your Trustees’ Annual Report? Categories: Charities As a trustee of a Scottish charity, one of your legal requirements is to prepare a Trustees’ Annual Report (TAR) for inclusion in the annual accounts. This report makes up the narrative part of your accounts, addressing the questions: who does your charity help? What has the charity done? What has been achieved? So rather than viewing more
Mar 18 2019 Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Legal Benchmarking report 2019 Categories: Professions Last week, RBS released its latest annual edition of the Legal Benchmarking report. For Scottish firms it made for positive reading, but there were some emerging trends for Scottish law firms and, indeed the wider professions sector, to carefully consider. EQ Professions partner, Mark Gibson, commented: “The Royal Bank of Scotland legal benchmarking report 2019 more
Mar 14 2019 Research & Development Claim Settled! Categories: Taxation Our team recently completed two Research & Development (R&D) claims for an engineering client based in the East of Scotland, resulting in a client saving of £156,386! Our client is researching and developing wind energy technology for offshore installation. The work performed by our client is all pre-revenue and is primarily engineering conceptual work and design more
Mar 13 2019 Spring Statement Commentary Categories: Taxation Chancellor, Philip Hammond, delivered his brief Spring Statement earlier today which was met with the usual mix of back slapping and derision in equal measures, intensified no doubt by the spectre of Brexit. Carrots were dangled with post Brexit bonuses in the event of a deal being struck, particularly given the UK’s encouraging borrowing figures. more
Mar 8 2019 Construction company vehicles – How much tax relief can you claim? Categories: Property & Construction When it comes to claiming capital allowances, there seems to be some uncertainty, especially knowing which vehicle expenses are tax deductible. The first question that needs to be considered is – what type of vehicle do you need for your business? Heavy plant/machinery vehicles (Cranes, Bulldozers, Forklifts, Excavators,Diggers and any heavy-duty vehicle, specially designed for executing more
Mar 7 2019 Research & Development Claim Settled! Categories: Taxation Our team recently completed a Research & Development (R&D) claim for a client based in the West of Scotland, resulting in a client saving of £23,400! Our client is a University spin out company specialising in the design and development of tactile sensory technology. During the year of claim, the company was involved in several qualifying more
Mar 4 2019 The 2019 Financial Benchmarking Survey is now open Categories: Professions The 2019 Financial Benchmarking Survey for Scottish Firms on behalf of The Law Society of Scotland is now open. Email invitations to participate in this year’s survey will be sent directly to law firms’ cashroom partners from research company, Tribal. With only 86 Scottish law firms taking part in the 2018 survey, representing 8% of more
Mar 1 2019 HMRC Delay Issuing Self Assessment Penalty Notices Categories: Personal TaxTaxation More than 11.5 million taxpayers were required to file their Self Assessment Tax Return by midnight on 31 January, and according to HMRC, a record 93.68% submitted on time. However, there were still 731,186 taxpayers who missed the deadline. As part of EU Exit contingency planning, HMRC have decided to make a change to the more