VAT Ruling a Boost for Charities

25th July 2008

A recent court case has shown that HMRC have been wrong to deny charities the ability to improve their cash flow when refurbishing a building. Steve Taylor, VAT Senior Manager at Regional ... More...

National Minimum Wage Update...Cooper Parry comments

18th July 2008

The UK’s bar and restaurant workers now have good cause to celebrate. An employment tribunal ruled in HMRC’s favour by supporting current National Minimum Wage legislation relating to tips. ... More...

Goodbye Buy to Let... Cooper Parry comments

8th July 2008

Most of the headlines surrounding Alistair Darling’s Budget were concerned with the unpopular removal of the 10% rate of income tax. The Budget did, however, include a generous reduction in ... More...

New Penalty Regime for Errors - What do Businesses Need to do?

8th July 2008

Steve Taylor, VAT Senior Manager at Business Advisers Cooper Parry says that new businesses need to be aware of how the new penalty regime rules for inaccuracies in documents and returns will ... More...

VAT Simplification - Cooper Parry comments ...

7th July 2008

Any business that buys and/or sells services overseas will be aware of the somewhat confusing VAT rules regarding whether or not VAT should be charged. Steve Taylor, VAT Senior Manager at Regional ... More...

Increased Certainty for Corporate Tax Payers

4th July 2008

Philip Rogers, Tax Partner at Regional Business Advisers Cooper Parry says that companies with accounting periods ending after 31 March 2008 have an opportunity to increase the certainty in their ... More...

Construction Industry Scheme

6th June 2008

HMRC have introduced a sensible amendment to the CIS regulations with regard to the compliance conditions that need to be met by a contractor/sub-contractor on applying for gross payment status. ... More...

Revised Advisory Fuel Rates

6th June 2008

HMRC have announced an increase in the advisory rates for fuel that are to be used by employers to reimburse employees for business mileage in their company cars or for employees to reimburse the ... More...

Ivan Wilcox and Joanna Wills join Cooper Parry

13th May 2008

Leicester business advisers, Cooper Parry expand with the appointment of two assistant managers to their Business Tax and Audit teams. Ivan Wilcox, member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, ... More...

New Penalty Regime - Advice for Businesses

20th February 2008

A new penalty regime is due to be introduced for errors made on returns commencing on or after 1 April 2008 which are submitted from 1 April 2009. Click to view the full resource ... More...

VAT Update - the floodgates are about to open!

5th February 2008

Regional business advisers, Cooper Parry, inform local businesses about a window of opportunity to recover unclaimed VAT for pre 1997 periods. The House of Lords has ruled in two cases that VAT ... More...

Tax Update 2008

29th January 2008

Construction Industry Scheme – gross payment certificates. The first tranche of notifications withdrawing gross payment status from businesses in the construction industry have been issued. ... More...

Ivan Wilcox joins Cooper Parry's Leicester office

29th January 2008

Leicester business advisers, Cooper Parry, have recently appointed Ivan Wilcox as Assistant Business Tax Manager. A member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, Ivan brings over 12 years tax ... More...

Tax advice on National Minimum Wage

3rd January 2008

Following the first criminal prosecution for breaking the National Minimum Wage rules, Herminder Sandhu, Employment Tax Specialist from Cooper Parry, reminds the regions businesses of the rules ... More...

Peter Hully distinctions in ATT exams

20th December 2007

Tax senior, Peter Hully, from Derby advisers to private business Cooper Parry, celebrates following his successful completion of his Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) exams. Having worked ... More...

Pre-Budget Blow to Small Businesses - National

11th October 2007

Philip Rogers, head of Business tax at Cooper Parry warned the business community that the abolition of Business Asset Taper Relief (BATR), along with other proposed changes proposed in the ... More...

Taxpayers need to be less careless!

2nd October 2007

Karen Francis warns taxpayers to be more careful. This is because the tax penalty regime is going to change, penalties of up to 30% of the additional tax due will be charged for being careless. ... More...

Annual Investment Allowance

4th September 2007

Cooper Parry Tax Partner, Karen Francis, informs local businesses of a new tax development which they may benefit from. Over the past few years small businesses have been able to claim tax relief ... More...

Reduction in relief

2nd September 2007

Cooper Parry Tax Partner, Karen Francis, warns local businesses that they may end up paying more from April 2008, due to rate changes to plant and machinery allowances. For many years business ... More...

Late night Taxis

1st September 2007

Cooper Parry Tax Partner, Karen Francis, informs local businesses how proposed HMRC guidelines may affect those who provide taxis for their employees. HMRC are proposing to introduce new guidance ... More...

Good news for small businesses

5th August 2007

Karen Francis, Tax Partner from regional advisers to private business, Cooper Parry, says that a recent decision from the House of Lords is good news for small businesses. On 25th July the House ... More...

Holiday Home Relief

3rd August 2007

Cooper Parry Tax Partner, Karen Francis explains that new legislation will remove risk of a benefit in kind occurring when companies were used by individuals to buy a holiday home. In the budget ... More...

Contractors Beware!

1st August 2007

Cooper Parry Tax Partner Karen Francis warns local businesses about the new construction industry scheme which came into effect on 6 April 2007. One of the requirements of this scheme is that ... More...