If you are a start-up owner, chances are you’ve considered hiring an accountant to help you with your increasing profits. Big firms will process your tax returns and then move onto the next client, and you may find you get passed around different consultants. Smaller...

With a large proportion of the population working from home since 2020 because of the Coronavirus pandemic, a lot of you may be wondering what happens with your tax returns. Staying at home more means larger bills, so your overall costs will be greater than usual. You...

The minimum wage is in place to protect workers from being underpaid. The precise terms of it are reviewed annually. There are two types of the minimum wage, National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage. Before this coming tax year, the minimum wage applies to...

You’ve all heard the phrase, “modern problems require modern solutions,” and increasing numbers of today’s solutions, to age-old financial problems, are internet-based. Aston Black Accountants offers Cloud-Based Accounting, to streamline your processes, ensure...

Amazon is without a doubt the largest e-commerce service there is. When you consider the fact that it seems to stock most products you could ever imagine at the most reasonable prices and unparalleled customer support, and delivery speeds, this fact is unsurprising....

In the tax year just gone, electric company cars counted as tax-free benefits. Meaning, if you were given an electric car for work, you would not be taxed on its value. This policy is changing for 2021/22, read on to learn how and why. How Taxable benefits on company...

If you are in the building and construction industry, you may have heard about the VAT reverse charge legislation being implemented from March 1st, 2021, since October 2019. This charge has been brought in as an anti-fraud measure to mitigate the corporate crime of...

In the coronavirus pandemic, it is easy to imagine why the situation for holidays has become muddied. Furlough, working from home and shielding have all changed the way in which we all view the work we have to do. All workers, whether they are on a full-time,...

The saying goes, “The only two certainties in life are death and taxes,” and it is certainly true that tax is prevalent in pretty much every part of your life involving formalised commerce. Avoiding paying taxes is a crime, and you can find yourself in terrible...