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What is a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA)?
What is a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA)? A Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) is a formal process enabling a compromise to be entered into between a company and its creditors, based on a vote passed by a majority of creditors greater than 75% of those voting on the ...
How to deal with post-Christmas Debt
How to deal with post-Christmas Debt Everyone knows that January can be a tough month. The post-Christmas blues and the usual dreary weather can leave us feeling down and struggling to cope. Over the coming weeks, the post-Christmas credit card bills will be arri...
Could the end of the Furlough Scheme trigger a debt crisis?
Could the end of the Furlough Scheme trigger a debt crisis? As the government furlough scheme draws to a close at the end of September 2021, thousands of workers could be facing redundancies and job losses and could therefore be plunged into debt. Those who are already car...
Making tax-free payments to employees working from home
Making tax-free payments to employees working from home As a result of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, many workers have been forced into working from home. While working from home saves the costs of commuting to the workplace and perhaps allows workers to adopt a mor...
Winding up your personal service company
Winding up your personal service company Come April 2020, many workers who have been providing their services through an intermediary, such as a personal service company, may find that their company is no longer needed. This may be for a number of factors: -...
Do you know about this tax exemption for business trips?
Incidental overnight expenses A tax exemption enables an employer to meet small personal expenses when an employee stays away from home for work, without the employee suffering a tax charge and without any need to report the expenses to HMRC. What are incident...
Does the high-income child benefit charge apply to you?
Does the high-income child benefit charge apply to you? The high-income child benefit charge (HICBC) is in place to claw back child benefit from either the claimant or his or her partner where at least one of them has an income of £50,000 or more. The charge is perhaps...
Top tips to avoiding a debt hangover this Christmas
Avoiding a debt hangover this Christmas Christmas is depicted as the most wonderful time of the year. For many though, Christmas can ultimately be the most worrying and stressful time of the year. With so much pressure to have the ‘perfect’ Christmas, buy the ...
Closing a business – when a Members Voluntary Liquidation is beneficial
Closing a business – when a Members Voluntary Liquidation is beneficial Members Voluntary Liquidation (MVL) Although it is possible to strike off a company and for distributions made prior to dissolution to be treated as capital rather th...
Student loan deductions Employers fulfil many collection roles for HMRC, one of which is the collection of student loan repayments. There are now three types of student loans for which employer...
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