Wealth Taxes we should all be concerned about? To set the scene, it was the anarchist Proudhon who said all property is theft, whereas the ...

Autumn Budget 2025 The key message in this budget was "Fairness: One reason employees pay more tax is because Britain has not historically done enough ...

Making Tax Digital for Income Tax (MTD for IT) forms part of the government's plan to digitalise the UK tax system. MTD for IT will come ...

Backdating National Insurance Records: A Guide to Boosting Your State Pension Before April 2025 The UK's National Insurance system plays a critical role in determining ...

Autumn Budget 2024 After a longer than usual delay due to the July election and MP's holidays, the chancellor Rachel Reeves has now released her ...

Autumn Statement 2023 The Chancellor intended this statement to be all about the cuts in National Insurance that are welcome and have been widely reported. ...

Spring Budget 2023 The Chancellor's Budget contained some important changes in particular relating to Pensions and R&D tax relief.  There were a raft of smaller ...

2022 Autumn Statement This budget is all about Fiscal Drag so I will start by defining this. Fiscal drag is where inflation moves taxpayers into ...

2022 Spring Statement The Spring Statement was billed as a plan to strengthen the economy, help families with the cost of living and share growth ...

2021 Autumn Budget The Chancellor stood up to deliver his first Autumn Budget since his appointment in February 2020. He had to give a positive ...

How to avoid HMRC impersonation scams During the past year, COVID-19 has left many individuals and businesses alike in a difficult position financially. As a ...

2021 Spring Budget The Chancellor had what was accepted to be a near impossible balancing act to perform. He did so against a background of ...

Award-winning Accountants It is sometimes very difficult for a business to know if the advice they are receiving is good advice. We met with a ...

Tax Enquiries We are fortunate not to have to deal with many enquiries from our existing client database. We would like to think that largely ...

Director's Loans We took on a media client from a larger firm as our client felt they were not receiving the advice they needed and ...

The Chancellor’s Winter Economy Plan From the 1st November 2020, the government is introducing a new Job Support Scheme which is due to run for ...

Home Office Having started in practice in 1997 with very little notice the spare bedroom of a small 3 bed semi was our first home ...

Capital Gains Tax Expertise We assisted a client who had overseas trust assets of nearly £1,000,000 where the repatriation of the funds had been handled ...

The Chancellor's Summer Statement I think I should say that the statement is full of good news about the help that the government is providing ...

Coronavirus latest government support Further to my blog on Monday a number of things have been clarified and there has been the announcement of a ...

Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme The first question to answer is what is Furlough! For some reason we have used an American word for sabbatical. The ...

Budget 2020 The first budget of the new majority Conservative government was full of detail as ever some positive and some less so. The first ...

IT Savvy Old Fashioned Accountants At Bolton & Co we use up to date accounting software in addition to an e-signature signing platform called Iris ...

Changes to Probate Following the Autumn Budget (Click here for more) the government is investing £1 billion in order to upgrade and modernise the current ...

Why you should use an accountant for probate With the changes to legislation having come into force allowing accountants with the required probate qualifications to ...

CGT fees on residential property An interesting development in the area of Capital Gains Tax is the proposed introduction in the Finance Bill 2019. The ...

Autumn Budget 2018 This was a budget that is poorly timed given the substantial changes that could unfold before the spring statement, so much so ...

Wills - Registration The drafting of a Will is not something that anyone approaches with enthusiasm. However for anyone with assets above the £325,000 Inheritance ...

Making Tax Digital On 13/07/18 HMRC published what we believe will be the final details for the introduction of Making Tax Digital (MTD) on 05/04/19. ...

The Spring Statement 2018 Phillip Hammond has commented that he was feeling positively 'Tiggerlike' after stating that the economy has grown for five consecutive years. ...

How we are adapting to cope with GDPR Bolton & Co already complies with the current data protection laws (as set out in the Data ...

Why you should choose a Chartered Accountant Any individual can call themselves an Accountant, but to be a Chartered Accountant, a series of challenging exams, ...