http://www.alviscompany.com/blog/ The latest Blog feeds from www.alviscompany.com en-us Sat, 25 Apr 2026 04:37:37 +0100 Rocketspark http://www.alviscompany.com/blog/post/25754/autumn-budget-2025/ This was Rachel Reeves’ 2nd Budget as Chancellor since the current Government was elected in 2024. We would not blame anyone for thinking that the Budget had been going on for at least a month or so beforehand with all the briefing and media announcements in advance. Those briefings seemed designed to see what tax changes were palatable in a political sense rather than what was actually sensible. The days of Budget ‘purdah’ are long gone it seems.Cynically, it could be said that these brie... Thu, 27 Nov 2025 15:09:11 +0000 http://www.alviscompany.com/blog/#post25754 http://www.alviscompany.com/blog/post/24386/choosing-the-right-day-to-day-business-banking-option-what-you-need-to-know/ When running a business, your choice of bank account is more than just a place to store money—it’s the financial backbone of your operations. At Alvis & Company we often help our clients make informed decisions about their day-to-day banking options, and we thought it would be helpful to share a clear overview of what to consider when choosing the right business bank account.Why Your Business Bank Account MattersA dedicated business account helps you:Keep personal and business finances s... Wed, 14 May 2025 12:05:09 +0100 http://www.alviscompany.com/blog/#post24386 http://www.alviscompany.com/blog/post/24340/companies-house-reforms/ From 2025, Companies House is introducing major changes aimed at increasing corporate transparency and reducing economic crime. These include new identity verification requirements and broader anti-money laundering (AML) obligations, which will affect all company directors, owners, and anyone filing documents with Companies House.As your accountants, we’re here to help you through these changes — we are registered as an Authorised Corporate Service Provider (ACSP) so we can manage the identi... Mon, 12 May 2025 09:22:15 +0100 http://www.alviscompany.com/blog/#post24340 http://www.alviscompany.com/blog/post/24015/the-spring-statement-2025/ The Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, delivered her first Spring Statement and second major 'set piece' announcement on 26 March 2025.In advance, there was speculation that there may be tax changes, an emergency Budget of sorts, but in the end we got lots of departmental spending cuts and some technical announcements around tax.More concerning were the sluggish statistics on the UK economy and downgraded growth forecasts for 2025.Please download our full analysis below:... Fri, 28 Mar 2025 13:40:49 +0000 http://www.alviscompany.com/blog/#post24015 http://www.alviscompany.com/blog/post/24000/employment-legislation-changes-april-2025/ From 6 April 2025, there will be the following key changes to National Insurance:Changes to Contribution Rates:The rate at which employers pay National Insurance will be adjusted from 13.8% to 15%. This will increase the cost of employing all staff from 6 April 2025.Decrease in National Insurance Thresholds for employees:On top of the rate increase above, the secondary threshold  (the point at which employers start paying NI on their employees wages) is decreasing from an annual equivalent ... Fri, 28 Mar 2025 13:32:58 +0000 http://www.alviscompany.com/blog/#post24000 http://www.alviscompany.com/blog/post/23015/autumn-budget-2024/ The Budget of huge change. Rachel Reeves delivered her first Budget for the new-ish Labour Government, notable as the first by a female Chancellor in the UK’s history.Prior to the Budget there had been huge speculation about the content. Tax rises were expected, and the Chancellor delivered on that but possibly not quite to the extent expected in some areas.However, it is clear we will all be paying more tax than before. Cynically it is not a surprise that the Government brings in the harder m... Wed, 30 Oct 2024 16:22:24 +0000 http://www.alviscompany.com/blog/#post23015 http://www.alviscompany.com/blog/post/22728/furnished-holiday-letting-the-end-is-nigh/ In the March 2024 Budget, the then Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced that the Furnished Holiday Lettings (FHL) regime would be abolished with effect from April 2025.There was a possibility that the new Government might have reversed this decision, but draft legislation has now been published.The draft legislation will, from 6 April 2025 (1 April 2025 for companies), enact the following:Apply the finance cost restriction rules so that loan interest relief will be restricted to basic rate relief fo... Wed, 11 Sep 2024 15:31:13 +0100 http://www.alviscompany.com/blog/#post22728 http://www.alviscompany.com/blog/post/22686/making-tax-digital-update-september-2024/ We wanted to update you with the latest position on Making Tax Digital. For those that don’t know this is a long term project by HMRC (the UK Government’s tax collection agency) to digitalize tax records. The thinking is that digital and more regular filings will reduce the perceived tax gap and ensure the Government collects tax revenues in a quicker fashion. Making Tax Digital has been introduced across the last few years with the biggest impact in the VAT area where all VAT registere... Thu, 05 Sep 2024 16:12:24 +0100 http://www.alviscompany.com/blog/#post22686 http://www.alviscompany.com/blog/post/21519/budget-2024/ The key points are covered below. You can also view or download our more detailed booklet by clicking the link above:OverviewMost tax rates and allowances were announced in advance at the Autumn Statement, and the significant new proposals were all predicted – there were no surprisesThese key points include measures that were announced previously but are about to come into forceMeasures which have been announced but will not take effect during 2024 are listed separately belowPersonal taxThe ma... Thu, 07 Mar 2024 08:49:53 +0000 http://www.alviscompany.com/blog/#post21519 http://www.alviscompany.com/blog/post/21395/company-law-changes-march-2024/ The Government recently passed the new Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act. This make some changes to Company law and , in particular, changes filings at Companies House. This blog post is designed to tell you about the main changes that are coming up. These all apply from 4 March 2024... Wed, 14 Feb 2024 15:37:51 +0000 http://www.alviscompany.com/blog/#post21395