Top Tips for Small Business Communications

So often these days, I get asked "so are you busy at the moment'/ "keeping busy"? My response has always tended be one of the following, "yes always", "Oh yes very busy at the moment" or words of that...

  Attending an event? Ask the organiser for the attendees list so that you can select those you want to meet and then search their Twitter tag in order to Tweet them prior to the event, saying 'yo...

With our years of experience, the specialist motoring defence team at Rothera Sharp know all too well how easy it can be for drivers to end up on the wrong side of the law over the festive period. Th...

One of the anti-avoidance measures being introduced by the latest Finance Bill potentially changes the way that certain payments to shareholders will be taxed. This may result in payments following so...

As my job for the last eight years has involved connecting people in business, I often get asked all kinds of questions and tips on networking- the do's and dont's and I really have come across everyt...

It’s way easier than you think and it’s not all about blogging… The term Content Marketing is banded around as the holy grail of modern digital marketing. But what is it? How can it make your b...

Many people ask me if I have any tips on how to approach someone or break into a group at a networking event, others want to know how to break away from a conversation with someone without sounding ru...

Are you an Entrepreneur? If you answer ‘yes’ to the following then you can safely say you can class yourself as a budding entrepreneur…. You have always been driven, self motivated and hardw...

Prepare- Most network event organisers will send through an attendees list prior to the event itself, so ensure you look through it and make a bee-line for those who will be relevant to you to chat ...

Following the restriction of tax relief for mortgage interest and the 3% increase in Stamp Duty Land Tax all is not doom and gloom for buy to let landlords. Following on from the consultation this sum...

The Office of Tax Simplification has made a number of recommendations to the government to simplify the tax rules for reporting benefits in kind and expenses paid on behalf of directors and employees....

<p><span style="font-size: small">One of the anti-avoidance measures announced in the Autumn Statement on 25 November was to introduce legislation to counter the distribution of income acc...

In the Summer Budget the Chancellor proposed cutting the rates and thresholds for working and child tax credits. This would have reduced the income of many low-paid families significantly. The House o...

In the Summer Budget the Chancellor announced a restriction on the deductibility of interest from rental income for individual landlords of residential property. This restriction will be phased in fro...

A new apprenticeship levy will be introduced from 6 April 2017. Although all employers will be required to pay this new levy, set at 0.5% of their annual payroll cost, each employer will also have an ...

Specialist employment law firm Castle Associates is launching campaign Expecting 2016. The idea behind the campaign is to help pregnant ladies and new mothers understand what their rights are within...

In the Summer Budget it was announced that new rules for the taxation of dividends that will apply from 6 April 2016. Further guidance has now been published by HMRC setting out how the new rules wi...

Where a company makes a trading loss that cannot be relieved against other profits that year, or the previous year, the unrelieved loss can be carried forward against future profits from the same trad...

I’m off to see my financial advisor this afternoon, he’s a top bloke, I like him a lot and he really knows his stuff.   But I am not going to see him with a view to being told what I need to sa...

Ever since April 2002 when a limited company acquires the trade and assets of another business it has been possible to obtain a tax deduction for the goodwill and other intangible assets of the acquir...