In Practice archive: 2021

Here you can find In Practice ezine articles published in 2021, organised by month and topic

Business grants

• An assessment of ‘Pay As You Grow’ options

Business management

• Help to grow your business

• Research and development checklist

Charity sector

• Accountants and volunteers auditing charity accounts could face sanctions for falling foul of their duty to report obligations

Client management

• Fee disputes and speculative claims

Company legal matters

• Becoming a B Corp business

Covid-19

• Recovery Loan Scheme (RLS) – an overview

• Tackling Covid-19 related fraud and errors

• Taxation and SEISS claims

Employer and employee

• Could your clients be caught out with IR35 rules?

General business

• Guides to share with your clients

Governance, risk and control

• The importance of data security and integrity

HMRC

• HMRC launches new service for PAYE online for agents

Marketing

• Building trust through content, design and marketing

Professional skills

• Expanding your services: training to be an expert witness

Property

• Relief for UK property rental businesses post-Covid

• How to relieve post-cessation property business expenses

• Register of persons holding a controlled interest in land

Taxation

• How to avoid errors when submitting P11D

• Ten things you need to know for super-deduction

• The tax error of Mr Khan

• Capital gains and chattels

• Avoiding the pitfalls of unlawful dividends

Company legal matters

• Companies House – online filing presenter account

Corporate reporting

• Extended loss carry back for businesses

Covid-19

• Life after furlough

• Covid roundup

• Fifth SEISS grant available from July

• Failed furlough claims

Financial management

• Ten things you should know about the directors’ loan account

General business

• Guides to share with your clients

• Track your progress and measure what matters

HMRC

• HMRC is developing new digital services

• HMRC relaunches agent dedicated line

• HMRC compliance checks

IT and systems

• ACCA renews its MOU with Practice Ignition

Marketing

• Podcasts for practitioners

Professional skills

• Starting up an accountancy firm with marketing

SME

• A global hub to connect, inform and support

Taxation

• Discovery assessments – and deliberate errors

• P11D – late submissions can be expensive!

• P11D – implications for interest-free or cheap loans

• Filing non-MTD VAT returns during transition

• MTD for VAT: avoid penalties as soft-landing period ends

Brexit

• How to claim EU VAT refund after Brexit

Business grants

• Breakthrough Future Fund to support research and development

Business management

• What will it take for you to change your accountancy practice?

• Take your accountancy firm to the next level

Client management

• Are you an accountant or a de facto director of your client’s business?

Company legal matters

• Partnership law and practice

• Overseas companies registered in the UK

• Legislation Day announcements

Covid

• Covid-19 – the latest guidance on office working

• Claiming the fifth SEISS grant

• Fraud and the impact of Covid-19

Cybersecurity

• Cybersecurity and the accounting sector

Financial services

• Help for SMEs before LIBOR deadline

HMRC

• Our response to HMRC’s ‘Tax Day’ consultations

Marketing

• How to grow your practice through data-driven marketing

Professional skills

• ACCA Finance Week revisited

• Could you be offering probate?

Property

• Capital gains tax on property leases

Public sector

• Positive VAT changes for the public sector

Taxation

• New rules around crossborder VAT

• VAT and applying the IOSS or OSS schemes

• New points-based penalties system

Business management

• Setting the right price for your services

Company legal matters

• Changes to insolvency petitions

• Becoming a B Corp business

Corporate reporting

• Loss carry-back rules temporarily extended

• Companies urged to file accounts early and online to avoid delays

Covid-19

• Fifth SEISS grant – key checks to make

• The final furlough

Cybersecurity

• Cybersecurity – additional ransomware guidance

• Cyber extortion, ransoms and SMEs

Financial services

• Call to register unresolved banking complaints

Governance, risk and control

• Retroactive dates on your professional indemnity policies

HMRC

• Basis period reform – our response to HMRC’s consultation

• HMRC relaunches agent dedicated line

Marketing

• Starting up an accountancy firm with marketing

Professional skills

• The advantages of offering probate

• Podcasts for practitioners

Professional networking

• AccountingWeb 2021 Accounting Excellence Awards

Property

• Help transform how probate and estate administration is conducted

Sustainability

• Accounting and climate-related risks: what is going on in companies’ accounts?

• Rethinking sustainable business

• Taking action doesn’t have to be complicated!

Taxation

• Can the scope of super-deduction relief be extended?

• Late-payment penalty calculations

• Tax rises – national insurance and dividend rates

• Ten things you need to know for super-deduction

Business management

• Shareholders’ agreement – why have one?

• Why clarity is so important for your accountancy practice

Client management

• How to help your clients handle competition

Corporate reporting

• Filing accounts for a dormant company

Covid-19

• CJRS: HMRC agrees to offset overclaimed amounts

• Sole traders left struggling by the pandemic

• Updated Covid-19 guidance for employers

Cybersecurity

• Cybersecurity – helpful resources

• Cyber extortion, SMEs and ransom demands

Employer and employee

• New shared parental leave tool launched for prospective parents

Governance, risk and control

• UK set to ditch cookie banners in GDPR shake-up

International trade

• Small firms look overseas for growth opportunities

Professional skills

• Update for our probate practitioners

SME

• Small Business Saturday unveils SmallBiz100

Sustainability

• ACCA and other global accountancy bodies come together for net zero

• At the heart of the sustainable organisation of the future

• Construction sector reins in sizeable environmental impact

• Greenwashing – what we say versus what we do

• Nine in ten small firms don’t measure their carbon footprint

Taxation

• Dividend – how to handle for accounting and tax

• HMRC updates CT600 guidance

• Lobbying government on behalf of accountants

• Tax relief on employer pension contributions

Wales

• Members in practice in Wales – your voice matters!

Anti-money laundering and fraud

• AML supervisory activities

Company legal matters

• Do your companies know?

• Misuse of registered offices

Covid-19

• HMRC writes to SEISS claimants

Cybersecurity

• Cybersecurity – ‘Live hack’ and helpful resources

Marketing

• How to create a marketing plan

• Why would anyone buy services from you?

Professional skills

• Changes to the practising certificate requirements

• Free technical webinars for practitioners

Property

• Co-owned property and form 17

Scotland

• Scottish and Welsh Budgets 2021

Sustainability

• COP26 and the future of M&A transaction insurance

• Navigating the jargon minefield

Taxation

• Guide to...home expenses to claim when you're self employed: FAQs

• SA returns – using provisional or estimated figures

• Tax guides for your clients

• Top ten common tax elections and claims