A comprehensive guide to Corporation Tax Self Assessment (CTSA)

A comprehensive guide to Corporation Tax Self Assessment (CTSA)

As trusted accountants and tax advisers in Bury, Horsfield & Smith has helped businesses across Greater Manchester and beyond navigate the complexities of Corporation Tax Self Assessment (CTSA). This system requires companies to calculate and report their own tax...

New Year Resolutions for Family Companies

1. Deliberately decide what to take out Why? Because getting the best tax results is never a matter of chance The most tax efficient way to extract profits for director-shareholders is usually to pay a minimal salary and top up with dividends. The salary level can be...

Curing the Top-Earner Pensions Tax Problem

NHS pensions made news last year, with consultants and GPs blaming large tax bills, linked to pension statements, for making some work ‘uneconomic’. Why should high-earning power, coupled with pension provision, spell trouble – even for top-earners outside the NHS? We...

Dissecting the New Plastic Packaging Tax

The government is set to introduce its so-called ‘Plastic Packaging Tax’ in 2022. Here, we take a look at the new tax and consider how it could affect certain businesses. Outlining the tax The government wishes to encourage the ‘responsible use of plastic’ amongst UK...

Gearing up for Self-Assessment

Don’t leave it until the last minute, especially in 2020. With only two months left until the 31 January deadline for online returns, self-assessment is very much on our minds. There’s a first flurry of activity around the deadline for paper filing at the end of...