The outbreak of Coronavirus will inevitably impact all of our businesses.  In the short term, the current situation is likely to have a significant impact on cash flow, with loss of revenues and productivity. Government support for impacted businesses is coming, but careful management of your short-term cash flow is essential for decision making such as prioritising payments, taking on new debt and negotiating payment plans with creditors.

In these uncertain times, we want to reassure you that Frost Wiltshire remains open for business and available to help you.

As a paperless business with robust IT arrangements for remote working, we are confident that we can continue to provide an excellent service to our clients, with minimal disruption as all members of the team work from home for the foreseeable future.  Telephone calls to the office will be diverted to us, emails will be answered as usual and, where appropriate, we will conduct meetings normally done face-to-face via Zoom.

Entrepreneurs' relief (ER) is a relief applied to the sale of certain business assets or shares under qualifying circumstances. The relief is generous; any taxable gain generated is taxed at 10% rather than 18% or 28%. A common example of when this may arise is when closing a company down and extracting funds.

There has been much in the press over the past few weeks about ER being at risk in the upcoming budget, and whether it might be restricted or even abolished altogether.

The government has announced minimum pay rises in April 2020, with the National Living Wage increasing by 6.2% in comparison to 2018/19.

For a full time worker aged 25 or over who currently receives the National Living Wage, this would amount to a pay rise of £930 over the year.

The boxes are unpacked, the painting is done, and the Christmas tree is up! We have moved into our new office and are loving the change of scenery. Whilst there were a few hurdles to overcome (a meeting room without any walls for a few weeks made for an interesting challenge), overall everything has gone smoothly and to plan, and we are now adding the final touches.

We are very excited to announce that we are moving offices! It all started with a client meeting…