UK Business News

Tax? The very word makes most of us look the other way. Take some tax advice? No thanks, I’ll bury my head in the sand and hope my problems go away.
The trouble is, that’s the last thing you should do. Despite continuing Government promises to simplify the tax system, most people still find sorting out [...]

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British small businesses can now, with a single click, pay all of their staff via Paypal thanks to their tie up with Kashflow, the UK’s leading web-based accounting software company.
By loading account details into the software, with the press of a button, Kashflow can pay staff whilst producing accounts which are HMRC recognised.
The fully integrated [...]

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The Newcastle Trading Standards Office has ended an ongoing dispute between SaaS accounting businesses, Kashflow and Sage.
The long-running spat between Kashflow and Sage has subsided, with an agreement by the SaaS vendor to remove pricing comparisons with Sage from its website. The resolution followed the intervention of Newcastle Trading Standards, which was contacted by Sage [...]

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Small business owners are being offered the opportunity of  financial training for key accounts staff in the latest government initiative aimed at SMEs.
“Accounting staff really are the unsung heroes of the small business community,” said Adam Harper, Director of Professional Development at the AAT.  “Keeping on top of developments in legislation is a technical challenge [...]

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Cash-strapped small businesses are losing out on the chance to defer a potential £7.7bn of tax payments due to poor finance skills and a failure to seek out professional advice.  So says a report from the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT), the leading professional education and membership body for accounting staff, listing the three [...]

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