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Payroll Update: Sep-16 The payroll bureau team at Whitings have produced their latest newsletter, to keep clients updated on relevant recent changes to payroll and related legislation:  September 2016 Update

Cambs LEP: Current loans and grants on offer. The Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough Local Enterprise Partnership is the Government’s flagship vehicle to stimulate economic growth in our area. Grants and loans currently on offer include: Signpost 2 Loans: Loans of between £50k and £1m to SME’s for start-up and growth (Inc: CapEx, infrastructure, training and…

R&D Tax Relief: Claims rose by 38% in 2014-15. The latest data from HMRC indicates that there has been an increase in both the number of companies making R&D tax relief claims and also that companies are increasing their R&D spend. The fact that there are a significant number of companies making claims for the first time…

Farmplan Cloud Offering: Keeping your data secure. Keeping your data safe and secure is essential for any business, however for many of us we also want to share our data with our consultants, accountants and within the business itself which can pose a problem with the existing systems we have in place. For Farmplan software…

Xero Cloud Accounting: We now have 36 Xero certified staff. At Whiting & Partners we believe that the greatest benefits arise from working together and so we are particularly pleased to be a Xero Certified Partner. Xero are the UK’s leading cloud accounting software provider, giving UK subscribers a real time view of their business finances.…

Making Tax Digital (MTD) and BREXIT: Calls for more exemptions. The MTD consultation documents issued by HMRC on 15th August included an exemption from the proposals for quarterly digital reporting for small businesses and landlords with income below £10,000. This has prompted calls from interested parties for further concessions including an increase in the exemption…

Taxation of Termination Payments: ‘All change’ HMRC has, for a while now, been trying to find a way around allowing the £30,000 tax free termination payment to employees. This may, in part, be from the knowledge that there have been occasions where some employers have excluded the inclusion of ‘payments in lieu of notice’ (PILON)…

Auto-Enrolment: Are you prepared? Auto-enrolment is looming for many small employer’s now, with the next staging date of 1 October 2016 fast approaching. Are you prepared for the complexities that come with Auto-enrolment?  Although many software providers cater for this now, often understanding the legislative details can be a minefield. Through our Ely Payroll department…

Small Buy-to-let Landlords: HMRC offers simplified tax rules. HMRC’s 12-week consultation into Making Tax Digital (MTD) published 15th August focuses on one of the measures aimed at simplifying the tax rules for unincorporated property businesses, giving landlords the choice to use the simplified cash basis, currently only available to some unincorporated traders. Landlords with annual business income below £10,000 will not be required to keep their business records digitally or provide quarterly updates to HMRC, but they will still be able to use the optional cash basis. Through using the cash basis, the move towards quarterly updates required by MTD would become more straightforward, giving landlords additional flexibility.

SME Growth: Will BREXIT spoil the party? SME’s are generally focused on growing the sales side of their business, to improve bottom line profitability. Having bounced back from the double-dip recession, then flat-lining for a couple of years, it looked like proper growth had once again returned to our local businesses: (Source Data) And then came…