Aid analysis

Aid analysis

Self-employment income support scheme This is meant to cover people whose main income is self-employment, including partners in partnerships. The Government has promised that, if you appear to qualify, HMRC should get in touch with you during June 2020. Please beware...
A summary of the situation

A summary of the situation

The current health situation 14 days of Statutory Sick Pay per employee to be met by the Government in full. Business properties with rateable value less than £51,000 will pay no Business Rates. The amount of the Cash Grant that was going to be £3,000 to certain Small...
Breaking down the budget

Breaking down the budget

During the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt stated in his Inauguration Speech in 1933, “the only thing you have to fear is fear itself”.   Fear The official response to a problem tends to bring about a situation worse than the problem. For...
A summary of the situation

Tax and the current political situation

As I write these words, I have just heard that we are going to have a General Election on 12th December 2019.  I was listening to the Today Programme on Radio 4 in which someone from the CBI, and a business owner, were being interviewed as to the business climate...