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Yes, three clients coming from other accountants (like yourself) a year that have been investigated and been asked to pay large tax bills! I think one is too many, as accountants should never let this happen to their clients. There is no need for sarcasm either, this is a serious forum trying to...
Accountants recommend the ltd company option for a) the limited liabilty aspect and b) to save tax.
Accountants also charge ltd companies more on the assumption of saving the directors tax.
As the ltd liability aspect is becoming very academic these days, I can only conclude that the whole...
All I can say is that every year, I get at least 3 clients coming to me from other accountants complaining that they had to pay a huge tax bill, because their accountants recommended the ltd company route together with the salary/dividend mixture of remuneration and the taxman has disallowed the...
Since the £10k zero tax band was taken away from small ltd companies, it is better for most small businesses to be sole traders or partnerships (unless the ltd liability is a big issue). It is very easy to tell clients to take a small salary and the rest as dividends, until the taxman comes...
Unless the limited liability is needed for the business, it is better to take the sole trader option, as it would mean:
1. Less beauracracy (with ltd company you have to deal with Companies House and HMRC).
2. Flexibilty for drawing money out of the business (without having to worry about paye...
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You should include the VAT payments in your cash flow projection, as you are showing the movement of cash within the business. VAT payments are excluded from profit projections. Usually the figures on the cashflow projection and profit projection do not match, as the profit projection...