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    Changing accountants - current accountant whacked me £200 fee

    Exactly how I came do be with them :frown thanks for the advice everyone
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    Changing accountants - current accountant whacked me £200 fee

    Hi, Changing accountants due to incompetence/too expensive. They are with-holding the transfer to another accountancy pending I pay a £200 transfer fee. I didn't sign anything agreeing to this but apparently it was in the Terms of engagement. Is this normal? What is the going rate for a...
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    Purchased laptop while overseas - can i claim as an expense?

    Thanks, I 'll call them tomorrow
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    Purchased laptop while overseas - can i claim as an expense?

    :igmc:
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    Purchased laptop while overseas - can i claim as an expense?

    Thanks for the info. Yes, I purchased it in the company's name, but from a personal account.
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    Purchased laptop while overseas - can i claim as an expense?

    Hi, I was overseas for leisure and purchased a laptop that I will use for work purposes? Is it to possible to claim as a work expense since it wasn't purchased in the UK? Thanks
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    Child benefit

    I don't quite understand, what does the NI stamp do?
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    Child benefit

    wow, thanks everyone for the suggestions, some great information here! i am ltd company by the way
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    Child benefit

    Hi Everyone My wife and I just had our first child, I was wondering if I should be/can claim anything like child benefits? Did a search and couldn't find anything I have claimed paternity pay for 2 weeks. Cheers
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    newish contractor in the UK - advice on surplus cash in business bank account

    Yep, i've had a look at the business bonds HSBC offers. I must say HSBC is pretty terrible with their rates, but i'm not sure if I could be bothered changing.
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    newish contractor in the UK - advice on surplus cash in business bank account

    yeah, you are right. I'll be definitely looking at smarter ways to manage the cash coming into the company. I will be doing some long term planning over the next few weeks. Cheers!
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    newish contractor in the UK - advice on surplus cash in business bank account

    believe me, i am am understanding it ;) but fair point, that's sort of the reason I posted the thread, to become more informed, and it is helping a great deal To be honest, i just followed the basic instructions i received from the accountant, and it's been ok, but am now only questioning why...
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    newish contractor in the UK - advice on surplus cash in business bank account

    ok thanks i thought that was the case, but i've always just paid myself when I invoice my client that's a good point about the mortgage, much better to keep it in the company accounts, cheers
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    newish contractor in the UK - advice on surplus cash in business bank account

    thanks! that makes sense, i'll work it out this brings me to another question, if i have a few months off for example - am i able to ask my accountant to organise a dividend payment for myself without any invoices? I guess as long as i stay under the higher tax threshold and have the surplus cash?
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    newish contractor in the UK - advice on surplus cash in business bank account

    Looking at my documents from last year I paid myself about £690 / month. Which makes sense because I did my personal tax self assessment and have to pay about ~£5-6K (25% of 20K). My foreign income is slightly negative as i have property overseas. (I assume I can't do anything with this in the...
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