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Grants Available For Training
A TRAINING company has welcomed new moves to encourage employers to take on apprentices.
YH Training Services, based at John William Street in Huddersfield, said the introduction of employer grants for the recruitment of new apprentices would be “a fantastic bonus” for small businesses and local young people.
The £1,500 grant has been launched to encourage businesses with fewer than 250 staff to employ an apprentice.
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Previous blogs
February 2012
- Grants Available For Training
- Employment Opportunity-Audit & Accounts Manager at Sleigh & Story
- Q&A Tax Tips – What you need to do BEFORE the end of the tax year to reduce your tax bill
- Ten Pillars Of Small Business Planning
January 2012
December 2011
- Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
- Penalties for filing a late 2011 Tax Return
- The Basics of Capital Gains Tax
- Festive tax tips – Christmas parties, gifts to staff and customers
- Brighouse Echo Business Awards 2012
- How to avoid Inheritance Tax
- Brighouse Link
- Great Tax Tips
November 2011
- Q & A: What the Autumn Statement means for you
- Business Strategy Made Easy By Peter Sleigh
- Brighouse Link launch
- Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice
- ‘Intracom VAT Registry’ scam
- Channel Islands VAT ‘loophole’ closed
- Junior Isa saving option launched
- Video ‘taster’ of Ladies 4 Networking
- Your Tax Questions Answered
October 2011
- Questions to Ask when Writing a Small Business Strategy
- Map and directions to Prego Restaurant & Waterfront Lodge
- Bank Of Santander Stopping Free Business Banking for Life to New Customers
- Ladies 4 Networking Brighouse – First Meeting 25th October @ Prego Restaurant, Brighouse
- Ladies 4 Networking Brighouse is launched by Debbie Story
- Top 10 Tax Saving Tips
September 2011
- Sleigh & Story are the Proud Sponsors of Rastrick Juniors Under 9s Football Team
- PAYE Late Filing Penalties
- Our latest advert
- National Minimum Wage rates from 1 October 2011
- New Tax Return Late Filing and Late Payment Penalties
- HMRC Guide: Motoring Expenses
August 2011
- Business start-up mentors
- Swiss bank accounts
- Antonia in the Huddersfield Examiner
- Top 10 tips on Estate Planning – to minimise your Inheritance Tax
- Riots helpline launched for taxpayers
- Parents Could Lose Benefits Unless they Report that 16-Year-Olds are Staying On in Education
- The Tax Enquiry Process
- Choosing An Accountant
- Tax saving strategies
- Basics of Accounting Are Vital to Survival for Entrepreneurs
- How to Bring Positive Change to Your Business
- Key Issues in Running Your Business
July 2011
- How pensions are taxed
- Tax credit renewal deadline 31 July
- Pete & Debbie – Photos
- Delays to HMRC July SA statements – No interest charges if you pay within 30 days
- New team photograph
- Thank you with flowers
- Small Business Strategy – Taking The Next Marketing Step
- How to Grow a Small business in Testing Times.
- Investing Company Money- Cash, Shares or Pension?
- House prices to struggle on until 2020
- Charity Giving
- Businesses not Vat Registered Who Should be To Receive Letter Over Coming Weeks
- Furnished Holiday Lettings – The Current Situation
- Family Tax Planning Tips
- Cost Of Using Mobile Phones Abroad Set to Fall
- Why do we employ Economists if they can’t fix the Economy?
- HMRC campaign to flush out businesses which have failed to register for VAT
- Bank Card Charges Abroad
- Self Employment: Fancy being your own boss?
- Tax campaign for plumbers under fire
- Tax Credits – Implications of late reporting of a change in circumstances
June 2011
- How to survive a Tax Enquiry
- 1.2 million owe tax after HMRC error
- Tax and your property
- 10 ways to save Income Tax
- P11D deadline 6 July – Tips for getting them right first time
- Battle lines drawn on unpaid tax
- Business Strategies
- Tax credits – Q: I haven’t yet received a renewal pack. What do I do?
- Tax saving tip for a married/civil partner higher rate tax payer with investments
- Tax Credits – Q: I work 29 hours a week. Is it correct that I’ll get more tax credits if I worked 30 hours?
- Tax Credits renewal – What happens if I don’t renew before the deadline?
- Tax free savings
- Cost of private fuel taxable benefit
- Tax Tip – Company Cars
- How to invest your Company’s money
- Any tax or accountancy questions you would like answering?
- Make your website Smartphone friendly
- Changes to Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) from November 2011
- Valueing Company shares
- Use of Home – tax deductable expense for the self-employed
May 2011
- Tax Deductible Expenses for Small Businesses
- Tax Planning Advice if Selling a Business
- Tax Enquiry Fee Protection Service
- Inland Revenue are becoming more aggressive about debt collection
- Our new rear signage
- Tax doesn’t have to be threatening…
- Business Link Yorkshire to cease 25 November 2011
- Q&A editorial – June edition – advanced copy
- Complaints against HMRC to feature on Watchdog on BBC1 on Thursday 19 May 8pm
- Inflation grows to worsen savers’ struggle
- Equitable Life payout to begin in June
- Savings rates to beat inflation
- Higher Interest paid by Fixed Rate Bonds
- Manchester Building Society savings account 3.11%
- Trust in business is so important
- Are you a school considering switching to an academy?
- Age UK Tax Calculator
- China’s trade surplus jumps to $11.4bn
- Tax enquiry successfully defended by Peter Sleigh
- Q&As editorial by Debbie Story – May Issue
April 2011
- National Minimum Wage to rise to £6.08 from 1 October 2011
- HMRC Payroll Bulletin
- Plumbers to be targeted by HMRC – temporary amnesty has been granted
- Want clear and simple explanations to tax and accountancy questions? Your questions answered….
- Launch of TLC-Together for Looked After Children
- Watch out for more scam emails. HMRC will NEVER inform customers of a tax rebate via email.
- Taxman apology over record checks pilot. Always nice to hear them apologising!
- State pensions – How the government’s plans could affect you
- ‘Tea-Time Treats’ in Hipperholme – Pete, Pat & Debbie perform to c. 60 over 60′s!
- Eureka! Launch of Charity TLC at Eureka tomorrow
- Training course
- Families more than £900 worse off in 2011
- New Zero T code (0T), plus Summary of PAYE regulation changes coming into effect on 6 April
- Class 2 National Insurance contributions – changes to payment dates
- Key tax changes from today (2011/12 verses 2010/11)
- New penalty regime begins for late filing – a tax return filed six months late could attract a penalty of at least £1,300
- New flat-rate state pension plans unveiled – plans as expected, still 2 options
- UK financial advice service launched – no charges
- Budget small print – 45p per mile
- Junior ISA available from 1 November – is it worth it?
March 2011
- Budget 2011: George Osborne’s key points
- Tax planning before 5 April – Pay for private fuel used in your company car
- Tax planning before 5 April – Inheritance Tax
- Budget 2011: What we already know
- Tax Planning – Profit Extraction
- Tax planning before 5 April – Maximise pension contributions
- Tax planning before 5 April – Capital purchases, buy before 5 April rather than after
- Tax planning before 5 April – Childcare vouchers – relief to reduce for new scheme joiners post 5 April (higher rate tax payers only)
- Tax planning before 5 April – ISAs
- Government pledges to help make business rate relief automatic
- State Pension to be simplified and may rise to £140 per week
February 2011
- Tax Credits: effect of Budget changes from 6 April 2011
- HMRC crackdown on self-employed tax credit cheats
- Tax tip – Salary sacrifice
- Tax tip – Transferring assets to a spouse or civil partner
January 2011
- Concerns for middle earners – threshold at which the tax rate jumps from 20% to 40% will drop by £1,400 on 6 April
- SMEs face HMRC checks on accuracy of records – HMRC expect to raise £600m over four years
- Yorkshire firms urged by to bid for Regional Growth Fund
- HM Revenue & Customs related phishing examples
- Payment of self-assessment
- Self-Assessment Tax Return deadline just weeks away!
- VAT increase – guidance
- Savings protection limit increases to £85,000
December 2010
- Merry Christmas & Happy New Year
- Tax tip: Use the VAT cash accounting scheme
- Rates and thresholds for 2011/12 have been published
- Tax tip: De-register for VAT
- Corporate Tax Reform: Delivering a More Competitive System
November 2010
- Tax tip: Reduce payments on account
- Don’t wait for HMRC to come after you if you owe money.
- Tax tip : VAT Flat-Rate Scheme – Bulk buy capital goods
- Ed Miliband pledges to keep 50% tax rate
- HSBC are now offering free business banking online
- Tax tip: Use the VAT cash accounting scheme
- Tax treatment changing for employer supported-childcare (e.g. Busy Bees Childcare Vouchers)
- Tax-free Junior Isa plan unveiled
October 2010
- Pension Reform
- State pension rise only for newly retired
- Tax return deadline (paper): One week left.
- Proposal for massive pensions boost
- Banks to sign a new code of practice on tax avoidance.
- Government’s four-year Spending Review – The key announcements
- Pensions – Annual and Lifetime Allowances
- PAYE end-of-year reconciliations – 90,000 P800s a day
- Unclaimed Capital Allowances
- PM supporting transferable tax allowance between married couples
- IR35 Contractor Solution
- Stamp Duty Strategy
- Cameron hints at retreat over child benefit anomoly
- Corporation Tax Strategy
- Minimum wage up to £5.93 an hour
September 2010
- Nick Clegg announces 3000% increase in tax investigations
- Ed Miliband’s call for a living wage and a bigger bank levy has alarmed employers.
- Reminder – notify HMRC by 5 October if newly self-employed in 09/10
- Bank of England says lenders are ‘not passing on rate cuts’
- HMRC considering plans for a centralised deductions scheme
- National Insurance contributions holiday
- The team at Sleigh & Story
