Dormant Company Accounts: Complete UK Guide 2026
Summarize this blog post with: ChatGPT | Perplexity | Claude | Grok You may think your limited company has nothing to report if it never traded. You may also assume a company that stopped trading has no further duties. Dormant companies still have filing obligations, and Companies House and HMRC use different rules. This guide […]
Confirmation Statement Explained: Filing & Deadlines 2026
Somewhere on your calendar, quietly, there’s a date that could get your company struck off the register. Not your tax return. Not payroll. Your confirmation statement — the one filing almost every director forgets exists until Companies House emails a warning. It sounds bureaucratic, and honestly, it is. But it’s also one of the simplest, […]
Tax Relief Every Small Business Should Know 2026
Right, let’s start with the bit nobody tells you at networking events: most small business owners in the UK are quietly overpaying tax. Not through fraud, not through some HMRC conspiracy — just through not knowing what tax relief they’re entitled to claim. It’s the financial equivalent of leaving a fiver on the pavement and […]
Electric Company Car Tax Benefits Explained 2026
Somewhere between the school run and the last MOT reminder, many UK business owners realised that swapping a diesel estate for an electric company car could be one of the cheapest tax decisions they’ll make this decade. It’s not an exaggeration. Electric company car tax is only a fraction of what petrol and diesel drivers […]
Benefits of an Outsourced Finance Department 2026
There’s a particular kind of tired that comes from doing your own books at 11pm on a Sunday. Not the good kind of tired. The kind where you’re squinting at a spreadsheet, three coffees deep, wondering why the VAT figure doesn’t match what it matched last month. If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone — […]
Tax Efficiency Strategies for Company Directors
Here’s a confession before we start: most directors don’t lose sleep over corporation tax rates. They lose sleep over the fact that they know something clever could be done with their money, but nobody’s ever explained it in a way that isn’t wrapped in fifteen layers of jargon. That’s what this piece is for. Tax […]
Export VAT Rules Explained: What UK Businesses Actually Need to Get Right
Somewhere between “we’ve just landed our first overseas order” and “why has HMRC written to us about that invoice from March,” a lot of small UK businesses discover that export VAT is not the formality they assumed it was. It sounds simple on paper — sell goods abroad, don’t charge VAT, done. Except it isn’t […]
VAT on Imports: The 2026 Guide Nobody Bothered to Simplify
Here’s the thing about VAT on imports that catches out even seasoned business owners: it isn’t just “VAT, but at customs.” It’s a slightly different beast, with its own paperwork, its own deadlines, and its own way of quietly draining cash flow if you don’t understand how the mechanics work. If you bring goods into […]
How long should you keep accounting records (2026 Guide)
How long should you keep accounting records? Somewhere in a filing cabinet, loft, or long-forgotten Dropbox folder sits the answer most business owners get slightly wrong. Sole traders and partnerships must keep their accounting records for at least five years after the 31 January Self Assessment deadline. Limited companies need six years from the end […]
