The best tips on how to sell your business are the most obvious ones. However, if you’ve never sold a business before, the whole process can look very daunting from the outset. Read More
Accountants are there to help their clients at every stage of their business from set-up to growth. Companies at different parts of their life cycle will look for external funding to either help them increase staff numbers, assist with asset or machinery purchase, or for a financial cushion when trading is going through an unexpected lull. Read More
VAT is a complicated tax – perhaps one of the most complicated there is for most SMEs. So, if you make a mistake, what do you need to do to amend your VAT return? Read More
It’s not quite the same as the excitement and anticipation you feel in the countdown to your birthday or to Christmas Day. The countdown to Making Tax Digital isn’t exactly tinged with the same degree of positivity as these annual extravaganzas but you can consider yourself officially part of this mass participation event if you’re VAT registered and your turnover exceeds £85,000. Read More
Fraud costs the UK £190bn a year, according to credit reporting agency, Experian. Everyone, it seems, is a target from people at home being duped into questionable investment schemes to fake emails for non-existent invoices being sent to none-the-wiser accounts clerks. You can be defrauded in the street, by email, on the phone, or by post – no-one is immune. Read More
If your business turns over more than £1,635 a week, then you need to register for VAT. At Panthera, we have clients across all different sectors and of all different sizes. For our smaller customers, registering for VAT is something that causes concern and anxiety. Not only have they gone through the experience of opening a company and then running it (and everything it entails), here comes something new to comply with. Read More
Some people may think that all accountants do is just sit in a room with a green visor on, pouring over a stack of receipts. That couldn’t be further from the truth - we left the visors behind long ago (they weren’t doing anything for our image and it’s difficult to get that shade of green to match with anything else). Read More
After being in the business news headlines for what seems like forever, the deadline for the General Data Protection Regulation came and went on 25th May 2018. GDPR came into full effect for all businesses within the EU on that date. Read More
Introduced in the last two years, Investors’ Relief was a big change to the tax and investment environment. Investors’ Relief can save each investor up to £1m in tax over the course of their lifetime. Read More
