Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015
The Chancellor gave his speech in the House of Commons today (25th November 2015) setting out his plans for the next few years and the current state of the economy. We were expecting some news for contractors and small businesses [...]
Dividend Waivers
The benefit of a ltd company is that the owners can decide how this split is made up and this split makes a big difference from a tax perspective. Salary is taxed at a higher rate than dividends and therefore most contractors will pay a low salary and higher amount of dividends […]
Maximising tax relief for two homes
The UK tax regime provides an important relief from the capital gains tax charge (CGT) on the gains made by owner-occupiers on the sale of their private homes. This is known as Principal Private Residence relief (PPR). The general principle [...]
Contractor loan schemes
If it sounds too good to be true it normally is! George Osborne announced in the Summer Budget there would be more funds available to HMRC to counter tax avoidance schemes (high profile cases such as Jimmy Carr and Chris Moyles [...]
Changes to the taxation of dividends
In the Summer 2015 Budget, George Osborne announced changes to the way in which dividends are taxed. The changes take place for dividends received from 6 April 2016. Some individuals who extract profits from their company as dividends may need [...]
Self assessment tax return submissions
You may have seen in the press or on the TV a couple of months ago, news stories that implied that it would be easy to get out of paying an automatic £100 minimum penalty for the late filing of [...]
Our Services
We sent out a survey at the beginning of the year and had some really great feedback. Over half of clients responded, so thank you very much if you did. 95% of clients who responded were either very satisfied or [...]
Welcome to Our New Director
Richard and Sarah have been joined by Dan Mepham as a Director in the business. Dan was previously a Director at a large national firm of accountants and specialised in helping contractors and consultants working through a limited Company. Dan [...]
Updated website launch
We're proud to announce the launch of our new website. Built on a responsive framework, our new website works beautifully on any size of device including smart phones and tablets. Our new website also benefits from a blog which will [...]
It’s our 20th Birthday!
We are 20 years old this year and over that time have seen many changes to the way in which contractors and small businesses operate and we are pleased to say that many of our clients still remain from those [...]
Connect with SG Accounting
You can now connect with SG Accounting across all of your favourite social networking sites including Facebook and Twitter. You can also keep up to date with the latest news from us on our blog.
Response to the Summer Budget
Yesterday's Summer Budget has mixed news for contractors and small businesses but as always the devil is in the detail and after reading through the budget documents last night the detail is not all there yet (despite being 123 pages!). [...]