When innovation and business objectives are equally valued, broadly promoted and fully communicated, a culture naturally exists that fosters alignment of the two. In order to achieve this cultural shift, top-down business objectives need to be communicated throughout the firm. It then becomes your team’s responsibility to align their innovative activities to support the objectives […]
The dog ate my tax return…
… is not a reasonable excuse! However, it has been announced that HMRC will not contest appeals against the £100 late filing penalty in respect of 2013/14 tax returns where the taxpayer provided a reasonable excuse for not filing on time. In the past, HMRC has looked in detail to judge if each excuse is […]
Communication keeps your business on target
As a manager there will be situations in which you will have to communicate a new policy or process, understand issues that are impacting on the delivery of results or poor performance, present a report or business case to secure additional resources and so on. Good communication skills can help you to keep your business […]
The Summer Budget – Director shareholders hit hard!
DIVIDEND TAX For many years dividends have come with a 10% tax credit which means that there’s no additional personal tax to pay on dividends received by basic rate taxpayers – the basic rate of tax on dividends is currently 10%. However, the Summer Budget has announced that, from 6 April 2016, this tax credit […]