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- Changes to Companies House regulations and what they mean for your business
- Our thoughts on the basis period reform
- Tax year-end is coming: Don’t get stressed out!
- Changes to the Furnished Holiday Let Tax regime could affect your taxes
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- Spring Budget 2024
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- How Scholes CA helps SMEs with their international advisory needs
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- Scottish Green Freeports – Opportunities and tax advantages for your business?
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- Scholes CA team takes the MGI Conference by storm
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- Scholes CA and Women's Aid Orkney team up to tackle domestic abuse
- A behind-the-curtain look at ICAS from Director, Karen Scholes
- Director, Karen Scholes, takes to Radio Orkney to discuss business and entrepreneurship
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- How to prepare for the upcoming National Living Wage increase
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- Scholes CA receives Accounting Excellence award for Mid-tier Firm of the Year
- Scholes CA to open new office in the heart of Aberdeen
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- Sixty seconds with... Kayleigh Tipper
- Scholes CA joins Aberdeen & Grampian Chamber of Commerce
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- SSE wins hydro electric scheme tax case
- Karen Scholes appointed as Vice President of Scottish Institute
- Tax change for empty and second homes in Scotland
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- Goldman Sachs 10KSB: business accelerator programme
- Coastal communities to receive funding for recreational sea fishing
- Third phase of the Industrial Energy Transformation Fund now live
- State pension: why you should check your NI contributions record now
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- Tips and service charges: income tax and VAT considerations
- Islands Growth Deal announced
- Scottish Government launches consultation on Green Freeport LBTT relief
- The King's Awards for Enterprise
- Farmers' averaging - how does it work?
- New scheme for Scottish SMEs to review/ upgrade lighting systems
- Getting ready for the 2025 PSTN switch-off
- UK Tradeshow Programme
- Pensions tax relief reformed in Spring Budget 2023
- R&D tax relief - a summary of the position effective from 1 April 2023
- BSI publishes Net Zero 'how to' guide
- Taxpayers given more time to pay voluntary National Insurance contributions
- Spring Budget 2023
- National Insurance for the self-employed
- Does your company have a shareholders' agreement?
- Retiring soon? Check your state pension entitlement now
- Corporation tax rates from 1 April 2023 and the associated companies rules
- National Minimum Wage - rates from 1 April 2023
- UK sets out plans to regulate crypto industry
- Delivering a fair and secure zero carbon energy system
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- Customs Declaration Service deadline extended
- Changes to R&D tax reliefs from April 2023
- LBTT Additional Dwelling Supplement increased to 6%
- New penalty regime for UK VAT
- Making Tax Digital for Income Tax delayed again
- Key employment trends in 2023
- Scottish Budget 2023
- Scholes CA merges with Aberdeen-based Bower + Smith Chartered Accountants
- New National Insurance rates confirmed
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- Corporation tax rates from April 2023
- Income tax rates and allowances 2023/24
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- Electric cars and salary sacrifice
- Will the capital gains indexation allowance make a comeback?
- A good time to look at share incentives for employees?
- VAT deregistration
- Helping employees through the cost of living crisis
- HMRC reports increased use of tax credit app
- Attracting and retaining staff with shares
- Recruitment challenges
- Capital allowances reform: professional bodies respond to consultation
- Ten ways to boost your social media marketing efforts
- New government inquiry into business and personal tax reliefs
- R & D Tax Relief reform
- Cryptoassets: government launches new consultation
- NIC threshold increase comes into effect
- Employee retention: 12 effective strategies
- Scholes CA Director shortlisted for YES Volunteer of the Year Award 2022
- Company Voluntary Arrangements
- The taxation of dividend income in 2022/23
- Employee Ownership on the rise
- HMRC puts R&D tax credit payments on hold
- Capital allowances regime under review
- Growth shares - an introduction
- End of tax year payroll procedures
- Towards net zero
- Pension tax relief: report highlights lack of awareness
- Giving shares to employees
- Agricultural wages guide for workers and employers
- UK Government sets out plan for crypto
- VAT rate for hospitality sector reverts to 20% from 1 April 2022
- The Small Business Sustainability Basics Programme
- Should you consider salary sacrifice to reduce tax and NICs?
- Help to Grow: Digital scheme
- National Minimum/ Living Wage increase from April 22
- Changes to accounting for VAT on imports
- Chancellor signals major reform of R&D tax credit regime
- Small companies required to make P&L accounts public under new proposals
- Is your business attracting new talent?
- Two green freeports to be established in Scotland
- Tracking your cash flows
- How to combat inflation - strategies for small businesses
- Corporate governance: ordinary and special resolutions
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- Scholes CA - a local accountancy firm with international reach
- Capital gains tax reforms shelved
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- The power of purpose
- New loan scheme for Scotland's farmers and crofters
- Scholes CA shortlisted in national awards
- The tax benefits of pension contributions
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- How to pivot your business strategy
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- New penalty regime for income tax and VAT
- How non-UK resident landlords are taxed on UK property income
- Using employee ownership to build a great business
- Scholes CA joins MGI Worldwide
- Associated companies and the new UK corporation tax rates
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- VAT schemes for small businesses
- Retirement planning and the pensions annual allowance
- Corporation tax: instalment payment regime for larger companies
- Brexit: opening an office in the EU
- 57 Ways to grow your business
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- Recovering VAT when purchasing a business car
- Maximising Inheritance Tax Business Relief
- Tax relief for the cost of agricultural buildings
- VAT domestic reverse charge on construction services
- Property taxation: allocating profits and losses to property owners
- Bookshop: Small Business Financial Management
- Tips to improve business performance
- Accounting Excellence Awards 2020: Scholes CA shortlisted
- How to showcase your company through the directors' report
- Tips for creating a great business plan
- HMRC campaign highlights local efforts to get ready for MTD
- Providing assurance to Interreg grant funding programmes
- NHS fundraising effort proves successful
- Tax relief for trading losses in the early years of a new trade
- Ten reasons to #shoplocal
- Small Business Coronavirus Support Guide - proceeds to NHS
- Out now on Amazon: “Small Business Financial Management”
- ECC Business Awards - Scholes CA in the running
- Advance assurance on EIS and SEIS schemes
- Corporation tax loss relief - options for relieving trading losses
- Does my company need an audit?
- The Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme - an Introduction for Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors
- Charitable giving - tax breaks
- Death and taxes: famous quotes about taxation
- The dangers of overtrading
- Will a tax expert be preparing your Self Assessment return this year?
- Entertainment costs and your business - make sure you know what you can claim
- Government stats demonstrate why small businesses are so important
- Mileage allowance payments
- Tax planning for small businesses: popular themes
- Common reasons to use a holding company
- Alphabet shares and the family company
- Personal guarantees - an overview
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- Tax relief for charitable donations
- Local business Flooers features in HMRC's latest video campaign
- R&D tax credits for farming companies
- How many sales do you need to make to break even?
- Birsay Bay Tearooms features in HMRC video campaign
- Key Performance Indicators
- Cashflow crisis management
- Andrew and Ali represent Orkney at the 2019 Island Games
- Orcadian John Walter and the Hudson's Bay Company
- Self Assessment: how the Payments on Account system works
- Pre year-end financial planning for companies
- British Accountancy Awards 2019 - Scholes CA in the running again
- The Scholes Portal - hints and tips for users
- HMRC guidance on the domestic reverse charge for building and construction services
- Common errors in management accounts - and how to avoid them
- Selling your Business to an Employee Ownership Trust
- VAT and payments for unfulfilled supplies
- Managing the financial impact of late VAT registration
- Buy to let using a limited company: the pros and cons
- Our Edinburgh office gets a facelift
- What is deferred tax?
- Why is my taxable profit different to the profit shown in my accounts?
- Directors' loan accounts
- Cashflow: 30 suggestions to improve your small business's cashflow
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- Understanding profit margins
- Return on capital employed - what it is and why it matters
- VAT registration and late registration issues
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- Tax aspects of dissolving the small company
- Maximising your return when you sell your business
- Strengthening your company's balance sheet
- Frosts Chartered Accountants
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- The Scholes CA Portal
- Construction Industry Scheme contractor? Check if you're eligible for gross payment status.
- Quickbooks MTD accreditation
- Small business valuation - an overview
- Popular tax-free benefits for employees (including employed directors)
- Business asset rollover relief
- Tax relief for interest on qualifying loans
- Enterprise Investment Scheme
- Latest Making Tax Digital survey reveals lack of preparedness among small businesses across the UK
- British Accountancy Awards 2018
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- Why small companies can benefit most from Research & Development Tax Credits
- Why have a shareholders' agreement?
- Tips for business startups
- Tax relief on the farmhouse
- Five basic tax planning tips for small businesses
- Budgeting for your small business
- What should I put in my business plan?
- Understanding cost drivers in your small business
- Business risk management and internal control for small businesses
- An overview of Self Invested Personal Pensions
- We're in the final of the British Accountancy Awards 2018!
- Building contractors VAT reverse charge
- Debt vs equity funding - what's best for my small business?
- The pros and cons of trading through a limited company
- Uzbekistan Entrepreneur Researches Orkney Businesses
- Tax relief for expenditure on buildings
- Getting paid - what to do when things go wrong
- How to start up at low (or even no) cost
- Could Research & Development Tax Credits benefit your company?
- Accounting myths and legends
- Think the top rate of income tax in Scotland is 46%? Think again!
- Financial key performance indicators from a growth perspective
- Raising capital using the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme
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- VAT Flat Rate Scheme: end of the road for low cost traders
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