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The Trainee Accountant Perspective!
Meet Jake Steer, a diligent student from Chichester College who has been working alongside our Accountancy and Audit team at Lewis Brownlee. In this revealing...
Professional Quality – A Profession Under Review
HMRC has published a call for evidence into ‘Raising Standards in the Tax Advice Market’ on 19 March 20 – Why? In brief, off the back of the Disguised Remuneration Loan Charge...
Auditing issues under COVID 19 – going concern
As at 31 December 2019 China had alerted the World Health Organisation (WHO) of several cases of an unknown illness. Further information about what has now been identified as...
Receipt Bank
The idea of a paperless office is not a new notion, it has been the dream of business owners and management for years if not decades. With the advent of internet based...
Maternity Pay and Paternity Pay
Statutory Maternity Pay When you wish to take time off to have a baby and are employed, you should get either Maternity Leave or/and Maternity Pay. Please tell your Employer...
What are your options with a marriage breakdown?
Guest blog from Edward Cooke of Edward Cooke Family Law If you are going through separation or divorce, it is vital that you are aware of all the options available to you for...
EMI Share Schemes in Limbo
One aspect of EU membership is that member countries cannot offer their resident taxpayers advantageous tax treatment, unless they get permission from the EU to do so.  This...
GDPR – The point of view of an Accountant
Have you thought about GDPR yet? The regulations come in on 25 May 2018 and much of the guidance on following the regulations is still incomplete. If you have done nothing –...
Relevant life policies – tax efficient life insurance
This is term assurance which runs for a number of years decided upon when the policy is taken out. It pays out if a director or employee dies while they are in their job and...
Employment Details
If you cannot find your P60 or P45 we can, if we have an agent’s authority in place (signed form 64-8), request this from HMRC. However they will not give this information to...
Life time ISAs
You will be able to start saving into one from 6 April 2017 if you are aged between 18 and 40. They are only open to individuals. Up to £4,000 a year can be paid in. Unless...
Secondary annuities market
Plans that would have enabled individuals to sell their annuities for a lump sum have been abandoned due to concerns that there would be too few purchasers in the market to...