When considering 2019 in retrospect, the kneejerk reaction would be to say that it has been a hard year. But when we stop and consider the facts, they might tend to tell a different story. Gretchen Rubin is credited with the quote ‘The days are long, but the years are short’ in the context of […]
Our Spring 2019 Tax Briefing is now available for you to download. In this edition we look at key tax topics as we approach the new tax year and crucial dates around the Brexit process and introduction of Making Tax Digital for VAT. Employee Benefits Vat: Brexit Realities MTD Facts and Fiction Pension Health Check […]
Amid much talk of further tax rises in the pipeline, to help offset the impact of Brexit and to support the Governments planned spending increase on the NHS, HMRC has announced that it had a record tax take in the 17/18 tax year. The total take of just over £605 billion is up 5.4% on […]
The streets of Chichester have been alive in the evenings again as the City welcomes back the Corporate Challenge. The series of three races, which take place this year on the 21st February, 7th and 21st March, are organised by the Chichester Runners with runner numbers sponsored by Evans Weir. Recent coverage of the first […]
The Taylor review, set up by the Government to investigate working practices and the ‘gig economy’, has now reported back to business secretary Greg Clark, with the promise that many of the recommendations will be taken forward and some expanded upon. The review was set up following significant employment cases involving major employers in the […]
And finally… A look back at the main news from December 1967 as we come to the end of our 50th anniversary year. We have enjoyed looking back to 1967, as we celebrate our 50 years in business. We may have said it before but it is genuinely fascinating how many similarities we have discovered […]
So, we have now enjoyed our first autumn budget. The move to an autumn budget is a welcome one across industry as it gives businesses and individuals time to adjust and digest before changes take effect. Being cynical it also leaves plenty of time for U-turns… We say we enjoyed the autumn budget because, as […]
Hot on the heels of our award-winning client news last month we are pleased to have been contacted by another client, Claire Featherstone of Chemo Headwear (www.chemoheadwear.co.uk) with news of more awards success. Claire, whose primary business is creating one off dresses for her clients, has now won an award for her work creating hats […]
We’re nearing the end of our 50th anniversary year and so this is our penultimate jaunt through the items that were making the news when Evans Weir was established – this month we are looking at November 1967 With the battle for independence in the news once again, both at home and abroad, it’s interesting […]
In case you missed it, interest rates doubled earlier this month to their second lowest ever level… what a sentence. Expected for some time, this is the first of several ‘baby steps’ Governor Carney has been preparing us for, as The Bank of England seeks to balance spending, inflation and GDP growth. Commentators do not […]
Last month we wrote about the lost decade – the ten years since the financial crash of 2008 – and having discussed this theory in meetings with a range of SMEs it feels like the side effect of the lost decade is a numbness to economic uncertainty. That is not to say that businesses are […]
What was making the news in October 1967? With the news regularly covering the latest advances in space exploration and the race to offer scheduled space transportation, it is a little crazy to consider that 50 years ago this month, the first man made object landed on Venus. Having been launched in June of the […]