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Hi,
Anyone can recommend a reliable company to manage the self-employed activities in Belgium?
Access Financial (accessfinancial.com) is the only one I know.
Cheers
Please find below situation for Director 'Fred' who is director of all below companies
Company
SIC Category
How long established
Comp A
Software Consultancy
10 years
Comp B
Finance Leasing
4 years
Comp C
Software...
sorry first time in my life I use a forum, please excuse my mistakes
I need to close my LTD and I need to submit cessation accounts. My company is dormant for few years now and I submit the accounts myself, I don't have an accountant. My question:
How do I submit the cessation accounts?
Is...
I have been offered a contract for £100k+ per year to provide IT services internationally. Is it necessary to pay Value-Added Tax (VAT) in this case? Additionally, what is the most efficient way to pay myself, as a director, and my sibling, who is serving as the company admin or secretary...
Can someone with knowledge or having done the same please help.
During Extension, Is it a good idea to change an outside IR35 contract from a current limited company issued with an Outside IR35 contract to a new Limited company operation from 9 months?? What are the implications?
Hi,
I am about to sign a contract with a US company and I phoned an accountant to get some advice regarding IR35 rules.
I was told that IR35 doesn't apply to US companies but my contract could still be checked for IR35 status from the HRMC.
I am bit confused. Does that mean that the US...
Hi,
I'm planning to work/contracting for crypto companies doing, I haven't done any contracting before, I have been going through how contracting works at the moment.
More often the crypto outfits do not have any address or location and I would be paid in crypto (USDC) I would have to get that...
Since I last submitted a tax return they have added a new question 8 on the employment pages:
The notes say:
I was working outside IR35 through my own Ltd Co until Apr 2021 and then closed the company mid 2021. The question seems to say to tick the box if you were working inside IR35 through...
The Parasol website (myparasol.co.uk) seems to have disappeared this morning and their phone numbers don't ring through.
The websites for Nixon Williams and ClearSky accounting that I think are linked seem to respond still but none of their phone numbers work either.
Is anyone else on here...
I am a US citizen in the UK married to a European citizen and we both do contracting work. A US company wants to hire me as a consultant on an extended and pretty much full-time basis. Am trying to figure out how I should set myself up from the legal structure and flow of funds perspective to...
So this has been done to death but wanted to check my ‘maffs’!
I’m considering purchase of a motorbike purely for business use to dive in and around city centres when visiting Clients (it may also only be used in a sunny day!). Making use off the Annual Invesment Allowance and the fact the...
I have started the process of closing my limited company via my accountants but am very suspicious about the steps in the process that they have outlined in them doing so.
They have stated that I should not close my business bank account at this time as any tax refunds due to the company will...
Hi,
I recently had to switch to an umbrella due to IR35.
I got paid for the first time in the May tax month. I submitted my timesheet for June as normal and my agency sent the money to the umbrella before the 4th of June. This meant that the Umbrella processed the payment within the same tax...
Hi All
I just wanted to ask a quick question to get an idea of accountancy fees and if what im paying is normal
My account does my PAYE, Vat and end of year accounts and charges me £1900.
Is that about the same as most of you are charged for a simular service.
Outside of the above he like...
Hi All,
I am about to start liquidation and need to submit final returns. and my current accountant is not responding since few days now.
I think I don't have any other option than going to other accountant .
Any issues I can face please ?
Regards
Hey folks,
I'm new to the UK and am starting a Contracting Web Dev business. I just got off the phone with Maslins and they recommended this forum for finding an Accountant specialising in UK/US contractors.
Can anyone recommend an accountant?
Much appreciated,
Chris
Hi All,
I am looking to become an IT contractor. I have interviews for both an inside IR35 role and outside.
For arguments sake lets say they are both offering 450GBP a day for 6 months (lets say 120 days of work).
Therefore I get 450*120=54,000GBP sent to me.
My question is...
after setting...
I have a property which is rented out for £2,000 pcm. I transfer the net proceeds of circa £1500 (minus agents fees, maintenance etc deducted) to my Mum each month to support her.
My Mum doesnt have another income so would pay less tax than me. Is there a way for me to not complicate/change...
Hi all,
I've joined this forum as I'm going to set up an Ltd to build some software which won't probably see any revenue for at least a year.
The reason why I'd like to have an accountant when setting up my Ltd is to also have a registered address to use for the incorporation.
I'd like to find...
Hello Everyone.
I need some advice please and hope you can help!
I've been a Ltd Co contractor for 7 years and my last contract ended back in February this year and I then took a fill time PAYE job with another company. So really, the Ltd company isn't in use any more but I do owe the company...