The Proactive Accountant
There are four methods for paying a tax bill
We recommend making payments by bank transfer as this is the most assured way of proving the date and the amount of the tax you have actually paid.
Method 1 – Internet Banking
Make a payment to the Collector of Taxes for the amount required. Depending on the bank, they may already have HMRC Shipley or HMRC Cumbernauld as ready made options, and you should use the Shipley account unless told otherwise. If the bank does not have the precise account details already on …
Business owners need to spend time working “on” the business as well as “in” the business!
Time management is about managing tasks and not about managing time. Get things done!
After your FRS application is approved you should receive a confirmation letter like this one.
As soon as you get that please let us have copy so that we can make sure our systems are up to date and we help you to get the next VAT return in, with the right amount, and on time!
If your VAT returns do not coincide with the end of your trading year, you could find yourself having to work on the VAT figures 5 times per year instead of 4. That’s because the year end accounts may include a disclosure about how much VAT was due on the year end date.
It’s a simple matter to get things changed and we have a template which clients can use. However, it’s still one of those things that the VAT office needs from the taxpayer and not from the accountant, and …
Nobody wants their accounts to be late, and nobody wants to be fined as a result.
In that respect we are just the same as you, but there is one fundamental difference!
In law the responsibility remains with you, the taxpayer, to get things done. And unless you can show reasonable excuse, then if your accounts are late and you get a penalty notice, you are the one who is going to have to pay it. Saying that “my accountant didn’t remind me” is not a reasonable excuse, and in any case …
Well, we spent most of Sunday 3 April 2011 working on our new email platform and we completed that at around 8.00pm. If you hadn’t heard about the issues, then these two reports (read them in order) will explain what happened.
Temporary problem with e-mail
Using a dot LY domain
And, it seems that while we were fixing our new email platform, the team at Libyan Spider were making progress with their recalcitrant supplier. Anyway, it appears that www.proactive.ly should be working properly by now, but it isn’t. We assume that this …
Arguably, dot LY domains are still in their ascendancy, and prompted by Twitter’s use of bit.ly we first made enquiries about dot LY domain names in the middle of 2009. We bought proactive.ly because (a) it’s relevant to us (b) it’s very short and sounds nice, and (c) we didn’t want to miss the chance and let somebody else get it!
Then the question was how to use the new domain? During 2009 we also moved our web hosting away from Yahoo and onto a new platform controlled by UK Servers …
