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Budget 2021 – Key points
Self-Employment Income Support Scheme – future grants confirmed The UK Government has today announced that the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) will continue until September with a fourth and fifth grant. The fourth and fifth grants will take into...
Urgent Note from Howard Gross re ICAEW Forthcoming 2021 Elections
MEMBERS MATTER ICAEW COUNCIL ELECTIONS FOR LONDON start on Monday 8th February. 3 SPA members need your help in a very competetive election. 15 candidates for 9 places. I (Howard Gross) am standing for re-election. I have been on council since 2002, I am the...
Insurers must pay many small firms for Covid lockdown losses
Tens of thousands of small businesses will receive insurance payouts covering losses from the first national lockdown, following a court ruling on 15 January 2021. The Supreme Court found largely in favour of small firms receiving payments from business interruption...
New Lockdown Grants to Support Business in England 05 January 2021
Yesterday Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced the following :- Overview £4bn in new grants to support retail, hospitality and leisure firms £594m for struggling firms in other sectors. How will it work? Firms forced to close would receive one-off grants worth up to...
Bumper End of Year Edition
Below are extracts from Howard's end of year bumper holiday edition I have included the following:- SWAB TESTS The Government is to introduce a temporary income tax exemption and National Insurance contributions (NICs) disregard, to ensure that employees who purchase...
Brexit update: what does it mean for your clients?
‘Time is running out’ for around 100,000 businesses that export goods to the EU, with the UK set to leave the single market on 1 January 2021. What can you do to help your clients prepare?
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