Year End Profit Reduction
Not all businesses make up their accounts to 31 December each year, of course, but it is one of the most popular accounting year ends, second only to 31 March, and so it seems topical to discuss, in an article written in December, the various techniques there are for reducing the profit on which your business pays tax... read more >>>.

You and the Revenue
Previously I’ve written about one aspect of the Revenue’s new powers over us all, which are still little understood and are still making waves in the accountancy and legal profession. This was the new enhanced (from the taxman’s point of view) ability to require information to be sent. Now we come on to something much more sinister: Hector’s powers to visit your premises... read more >>>

Tearing the Business in Two
A lot of the readers of these articles who are in business will have bitter memories of what it is to be in partnership. Business partnership must be one of the toughest relationships there are to maintain. And to make matters worse, when you finally decide to split, the silent partner in your business, that is the taxman, tends to make things even harder... read more >>>

Furnished Holiday Lets – The Last Knockings
Once upon a time there was a queen who lived in a big palace. She was surrounded by advisers to tell her how to run her country, but unfortunately she chose these advisers by way of popular election from amongst the common people. One day, the advisers told her that she had to sign a big treaty, but they didn’t tell her (or anyone else) that the effect of this treaty was to make a great many of her laws – well, quite simply, illegal!... read more >>>

International Businesses: Your Guide to Saving Tax
We’re all becoming much more internationally mobile these days, and so are the businesses we run. The interesting thing is: rapid advances in technology, and changes in the emphasis of the average business from using large fixed establishments to being lighter on their feet, hasn’t been matched by a comparable advance in the tax rules... read more >>>

50% Tax? No Thanks!
Or, the Handy Print-Out-and-Keep Guide to the 2009 Budget.
So, it looks as though the gloves are really off now in Gordon Brown’s fight to stay in office when the rapidly approaching General Election arrives. Many commentators before us have made the point that what seems to be happening is that Messrs Brown and Darling, worried (with reason) about their political prospects, have decided to play on one of the most powerful human emotions: envy... read more >>>

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Property Conversions – A Tough Decision?
Here’s a tricky question for you: do you want to pay tax at 15% or 5%? Even harder, how does paying tax at 0% grab you? Believe it or not, you could well be in a position to make exactly that choice, in the context of VAT on property conversions.... read more >>>

Profit Extraction – Time for an Upgrade?
Building tax efficient structures for businesses is a bit like building cars or computers. Nothing stands still, and the mechanism that was the “latest thing”, or the “best buy” a few years ago may no longer be such these days... read more >>>


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The Business Column - Save tax and feel good about it
This month I am inviting those of our readers who run a business with me on an arduous journey to the moral high ground.  It's not an area that business people tend to be very used to - not, in my view, because standards of right and wrong are any less marked in the business community as compared with employees and those dependent on the income of others... read more >>>