If you or your employees are members of the Childcare Voucher Scheme, then you need to be aware of the changes that came into effect on 4 October 2018. In summary: The Childcare Voucher Scheme is no longer be available to new applicants. A new scheme ‘Tax-Free Childcare’ is now available subject to eligibility. Existing […]
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Eye Tests for Employees and DSE Workstation Assessments – Does it impact you?
By Hannah Collier on 18th April 2018 in Advice for small businesses, Allowances, Employees, Expenses & Benefits, Running Your Business
I have had a couple of long days sat at my computer and whilst I love these, my eyes certainly don’t! I don’t know if it is my age, but I really think that my eyes are more sensitive now to long periods of time staring at a screen. If you think about most people’s […]
Yes, you can (and should) claim VAT back on business mileage
By Hannah Collier on 5th April 2018 in Advice for small businesses, Allowances, Expenses & Benefits, VAT
A VansonBourne report published last year suggested that 54% of available VAT on mileage was not reclaimed by British businesses in the previous year – don’t let this be you! Reclaiming VAT on mileage can seem rather complicated however once you get your head around it, it’s actually not that difficult. Here are the main […]
Cambridge Payroll Loves… Catherine Ellis, Hill & Ellis
By Hannah Collier on 27th March 2018 in business networking, Cambridge Payroll loves, women in business
#CamPayrollLoves… Welcome to another blog in the “Cambridge Payroll Loves…” series where I share the stories of business men and women who I admire. Catherine Ellis of Hill & Ellis, studied art and design at Central St Martins college in the late 90s, and after a design hiatus working in TV production, she set up Hill […]
Auto Enrolment Contributions are increasing in April – Are you ready
By Hannah Collier on 20th March 2018 in Accounts & Payroll Software, Advice for small businesses, Directors, Pensions
If you are running a payroll for more than just a company director then by now you will have auto enrolled and have legal duties to fulfil. One of these duties is making sure that you are deducting and paying the correct minimum contributions. As from 6th April 2018, the minimum total contribution will be […]
Can I claim this back?
I am pretty sure that you went into business because you had an idea or a service that you wanted to offer, or maybe because you wanted to have the flexibility of working for yourself – something like that anyway, right? I bet you didn’t go into business just because you wanted to screw the […]
Cambridge Payroll loves… Laura Ludlow, discovHer
By Hannah Collier on 7th March 2018 in Advice for small businesses, Cambridge Payroll loves, Directors, women in business
#CamPayrollLoves… Welcome to a new blog series – “Cambridge Payroll loves…” where I am hoping to share the stories of business men and women who I admire over the coming months. With International Woman’s Day being celebrated on March 8th – it seems only right that I kick off the series with an amazing woman – […]
How to make the right decision for you and your business. Part 2: Budgeting, planning and forecasting
In Part 1 of this blog I talked about values and why they are important and how they help with decision making. There was an important reason as to why we all went down the route of starting our own companies and this mustn’t be forgotten when important decision are having to be made. If […]
Celebrate International Woman’s Day with Hannah and a panel of other female entrepreneurs at DiscovHer on March 8th 2018
By Hannah Collier on 21st February 2018 in Advice for small businesses, business networking, Directors, women in business
Cambridge Payroll’s very own Hannah Collier will be joining a panel of the DiscovHer community’s founding members for an informal Q&A. The female entrepreneurs will be there to discuss how they achieved their own successes and how being part of the DiscovHer community is an essential part of their ongoing business journey. Who’s on the […]
How to make the right decision for you and your business. Part 1: Values
So today I made a very difficult decision, but it was one I needed to make for me. I have been running my own business now for over four years and in that time you can easily forget why you started this journey in the first place. So far this year we have talked about […]
