Anecdotal evidence has suggested that HM Revenue & Customs have been adopting a hard line stance on businesses that fail to keep up with their payments to the Crown for some time now. Recent figures have seemed to confirm this. In the year...
Read more...A unique piece of racing history A unique piece of racing history has recently come our way in our capacity as liquidator of the Whitehouse Group Ltd. This Cooper Climax bobtail racing car was originally raced by Bill Whitehouse...
Read more...They are just as painful for small businesses Our research shows that it isn’t just the consumer who is seduced by the lure of quick and easy money to push forward plans to keep the business going. The problem occurs when this "quick and easy"...
Read more...Wrongful trading In these uncertain times, a director of a limited company needs to take extra care, especially when the company becomes unable to avoid liquidation. When a company is insolvent*, the director’s primary duty of care is to the...
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Will it push your client over the edge? As you will be aware, RTI reporting comes in to affect next month. No longer will you be required to submit your client’s P35 annual return once a year by 19th May. Instead, you must submit your...
Read more...Isobel Brett was recently asked to give a talk on employee relations to the inaugural meeting of a group of 20 local female business leaders in Gravesend. Having risen through the ranks of her organisation from staff member to manager and in the...
Read more...With Blockbuster following HMV, Jessops and Comet into Administration in the last three months with the loss of thousands of jobs and the threat of further job losses in the retail sector there has been considerable news coverage given to the fate...
Read more...The Office for National Statistics has recently revealed that the number of self-employed workers has risen by 367,000 to 4.2 million between the start of the economic downturn in 2008 and June 2012. 60% came between 2011 and 2012. Self-employed...
Read more...At the Chocolate Tasting event held on 28th November, Bretts Business Recovery was announced to a room invited professional services colleagues after they had tasted their way through Lemon Sherbert chocolate, Cocoa Cola chocolate, sugar free...
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