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HMRC to improve tax enquiry communications

HMRC has defended the extent of its powers to recover tax but commits to improving communications to ensure taxpayers understand their rights and obligations –…Read More

Extension of Making Tax Digital (MTD) for VAT

In case you haven’t yet come across this, Making Tax Digital (MTD) requires you to have a bookkeeping software package that links up to HMRC…Read More

How to Handle a Time To Pay Rejection from HMRC

Some Time to Pay applications to defer tax after the 31 January 2021 deadline are being rejected by HMRC. The following guide outlines the issues…Read More

Sussex Cricket launches its own wellbeing platform

Sussex Cricket Club makes history by becoming the first professional sports club in the world to launch its own mental health and wellbeing platform. As…Read More

Xero Update for Postponed VAT Accounting

Can Postponed VAT accounting ease cashflow impacts post-Brexit? Find out more. We know a lot of our clients are struggling at the moment to get…Read More

10 Post Brexit VAT Tips

We’re now past the Brexit transition period, which ended on 31 December 2020. Now, post Brexit VAT implications for business are here and there is…Read More

13-step business plan for 2021

Creating a business plan for 2021 is more difficult as we cannot predict the date of a return to normality nor what will happen with…Read More

Invoice Fetch: Fully automated invoice collection from Receipt Bank

Here at Cardens, we are big fans of Receipt Bank and we use this software on all our bookkeeping clients to collect invoices and receipts.…Read More

Xero Accounting App Updates: November 2020

We’ve noticed whilst watching the Xero accounting app product updates that they are really focusing on trying to bring the mobile experience of Xero in…Read More

GUIDE: Christmas gift tax reliefs to charities & staff

Christmas gift tax planning advice for businesses this festive season. Christmas gift of up to £50 to employees Remember that certain gifts to staff at…Read More

Receipt Bank: Bookkeeping in a snap

We are always looking to make our clients’ lives easier. That is why we have partnered with Receipt Bank, the award-winning Xero add-on that automatically…Read More

Transferwise: Making supplier payments easier

Written by Cardens’ Trainee Accountant, Mike Bates Looking to tidy up and pay your creditors? Transferwise is a new third party app for Xero that…Read More

HMRC opens working from home tax relief portal

HMRC opened its own online portal on 1 October to process and receive tax relief claims for thousands of workers who have been told to…Read More

How to Set Up Xero Auto Pay For Repeating Sales Invoices

Written by Cardens Partner, Carol Rigby If your customers pay you a regular, repeating amount, there is a great new feature from Xero and Stripe…Read More

50 Ways to Grow a Business – Part 5

We’ve reached out fifth installment of our ’50 Ways to Grow a Business’ series. We hope that you have found useful takeaways which apply to…Read More

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