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Top Tax Tip


If you run a company or partnership and sell your personal services, knowledge or skills, have you taken the appropriate steps to ensure that the IR35 rules won't cost your business a fortune in additional tax?

 

 

If you need any help regarding this, please click here or ring us on 0800 612 2008

If you would like more Tax Tips, why not download our specially designed Tax Kits?  

 



Questions that Change Your Mind

  

According to Anna Freud, "Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Creativity is the gift of every human being, not just creatives.  

 

Where do you need to extend your creative skills?

 

 

Andrew Sercombe

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Powerchange - Definitely not counselling.

 

QuoteOfTheWeekQuote Of The Week

   

Action is the foundational key to all success.

 

Pablo Picasso


JokeOfTheWeek

Joke of the Week

 

Accountant after reading nursery rhyme to his son;

 

"No, son. When Little Bo Peep lost her sheep that wouldn't be tax deductible, but I like your thinking!"

 

 

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Free Useful Business Forms

We have a new resource on our website, where you can get all the forms you need for dealing with the Taxman and Inland Revenue.

 

You can now also download Tax Helpsheets, tailored around specific elements of Tax. 

 

To have a look, click here.

 

 

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Greetings!    

 

The answer for the last Brainteaser competition is: 9pm.

 

Congratulations to Andrew Sercombe, from Powerchange, who won a lovely bottle of wine!

 

This week's BrainTeaser is sponsored by Get Me In Google! 

BrainTeaser -Multiplication  

 

If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter 'A'? (Not inc. the word 'and', i.e. One Hundred And One)

 

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If you are not already, you should be!    

 

We found this software the other day; it's an interesting way of saying something, by converting text to speech. So, we thought we'd try it out, and see what you think!

 

The video below is all about Social Media, why it won't produce an instant result for you, and something you can do that will produce instant results! We hope you enjoy the video, and if you have any feedback for us, please let us know!

 

Note: Once you click the video, you will be taken to YouTube to watch it.



We Dare You...


ClientSpotlightCocoalocoClient Spotlight - Eddie Howland Photography   

 

Hello. I'm Eddie Howland, a photographer / cameraman based in Sussex. I will photograph anything and am always looking for new ideas.

 

I have had video footage used in TV's "REAL RESCUES", MERIDIAN TV NEWS, ITN NEWS, as well as many photographs in NEWSPAPERS.

 

My main interest is Emergency Service Photography and my aim is to do this full time, ideally working for WSFRS. At the moment I am freelance - video for TV news and stills for newspapers. Click PHOTOGRAPHS on my website then the Emergency Service Photography gallery to see some examples.  

 

Videos in video filming section of my website. www.eddiehowlandphotography.co.uk

 

Another interest is PORTRAITS and helping models, new or experienced, get quality portfolios. These can either be in the form of traditional prints, for you to do with as you wish, images on a CD / DVD slideshow, or in a pro printed Photobook.

 

I can do corporate headshots, and short promotional videos. I have a mobile studio, with lighting, so can easily come to you.

 

My small dedicated studio at home is equipped with proper backgrounds (black or white) studio flashes and soft box etc. Its completely private and a comfortable working space for me to shoot portraits.  

Portraits can be digitally "cleaned up" or airbrushed as it's more commonly called. I only do this if asked as it can dramatically alter the image:-

 

 

The image on the left is as it was taken and the image on the right has been airbrushed.

           

Due to requests, I have just started doing Wedding Photography. For more details and prices see the wedding section on my website. (PHOTOGRAPHS - WEDDINGS)

 

I can shoot weddings in the "Traditional" style, or the newer "reportage" or "candid" style - colour or black and white or a mixture of both.  

 

Apart from the corporate / news photography, I also sell fine art prints that look great on any wall.   

 

I currently use Nikon DSLR camera bodies (D300s, D300 and D70s) with various lenses ranging from 10mm up to 1200 (35mm equivalent)

 

The video camera I use is a shoulder mounted, Broadcast quality 3 chip ENG (Electronic News Gathering) camera - the JVC GY HD 201. I also have a smaller 3 chip Canon XM1 camcorder.

 

Contact Me:

www.eddiehowlandphotography.co.uk

[email protected]

07973 518828

Undisclosed Income? Don't Worry (Apparently!)

 

HMRC have announced a new scheme that they will be rolling out. It is called the Plumbers Tax Safe Plan, but, before you stop reading, it isn't just for plumbers.

 

The basic idea behind the scheme is to give people a chance to declare any undisclosed income they may have, and with HMRC getting hotter and hotter at finding undisclosed income, now is probably the best time to declare it!

 

If you have undisclosed income, and you use this scheme to declare it, you will face much lower penalties than if you don't declare it and HMRC find it themselves. Also, if you can't afford to pay the tax due on your undisclosed income, HMRC will sometimes allow you to spread your payments, depending on your circumstances.

 

You may not think you have any undisclosed income, but if you haven't told HMRC that you are self-employed, then you probably have undisclosed income. It is best to check with your accountant regarding this.

 

The scheme is aimed at people who work (or have worked) in the plumbing, heating or gas installation trades; including anyone who installs and repairs pipes and/or fixtures for water, drainage or gas systems in a building. As mentioned earlier, even if you are not part of this sector, you may still find that the forms cover everything you need to tell HMRC. If that is the case, then you can still use the PTSP forms.

 

Click here for more info (HMRC Website) 

ComedyComedy Zone - 'The Office Game' 



 

Here's a way to spice up your office. Pick two or three colleagues and agree to play the Office Game which awards points as follows:

 

ONE POINT

 

Run one lap around the office at top speed. Walk sideways to the photocopier.

 

Find the vacuum and start vacuuming around your desk.

 

When they're not looking, pour most of someone's fresh cup of coffee into your mug leaving them with an inch of brew.

 

Ignore the first five people who say 'good morning' to you.

 

Phone someone in the office you barely know, leave your name and say "Just called to say I can't talk right now. Bye."

 

To signal the end of a conversation, clamp your hands over your ears and grimace.

 

While riding an elevator, gasp dramatically every time the doors open.

 

THREE-POINTS

 

Babble incoherently at a fellow employee then ask "Did you get all that, I don't want to have to repeat it." - Double points if you do this to a manager.

 

Kneel in front of the water cooler and drink directly from the nozzle.

 

Shout random numbers while someone is counting.

 

FIVE POINTS

 

At the end of a meeting, suggest that, for once, it would be nice to conclude with the singing of the national anthem (extra points if you actually launch into it yourself).

 

Walk into a very busy person's office and while they watch you with growing irritation, turn the light switch on/off 10 times.

 

For an hour, refer to everyone you speak to as 'Bob'.

 

Announce to everyone in a meeting that you "really have to go do number two".

 

After every sentence, say 'mon' in a really bad Jamaican accent. As in, "the report's on your desk, mon". Keep this up for one hour.

 

While an office mate is out, move their chair into the elevator.

 

In a meeting or crowded situation, slap your forehead repeatedly and mutter, "Shut up, all of you just shut up!"

 

In a colleague's diary, write in 10 am: "See how I look in tights".

 

Carry your laptop over to your colleague and ask "You wanna trade?"

 

Repeat the following conversation 10 times to the same person: "Do you hear that?" "What?" "Never mind, it's gone now"

 

Come to work in army fatigues and when asked why, say, "I can't talk about it"

 

Speak with an accent (French, German, Porky Pig, etc.) during a very important conference call.

 

Tuck one pant leg into your sock and when queried, answer, "not now" and walk away. 

 

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