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Act now to get your Sage One package with our limited time offer! Ending on November 30th you can get the Sage One Cashbook service for just 99p per month! After November 30th the price of the Cashbook package will revert to £5 per month so, over the space of a year this is a […]

All landlords must register before letting a new tenancy, or by 25 February 2015 if there are no new tenancies or changes to existing tenancies. If you do not register you may be committing an offence and may be issued with a penalty of up to £2,500. You can find more information on the process here!

Dawn McLaughlin & Co, are running our Annual Christmas Charity Appeal, following the resounding success of the past six years! All that we ask is that, while you are out shopping, you slip an extra present into your basket. In these times of economic cutbacks, there has never been a more important time to contribute. […]

In 2012, HMRC gave a commitment to improve their service for bereaved customers. Since then, they have been listening to what customers told them was important to them at a very difficult time and looked at ways to simplify their process. In particular, our customers felt that they should be doing more to: make it easy for […]

On the following dates the HMRC are hosting live webinars to assist with employment issues on a variety of topics. 24 October at 10:00    Statutory Sick Pay – FULL 28 October at 15:00    Statutory Sick Pay – OVERFLOW 29 October at 10:30    Getting Started as an Employer 29 October at 13:00    Using Basic PAYE Tools […]

On September 24th researchers at Red Hat uncovered a dangerous error on all Unix, OSX and iOS platforms, this bug was dubbed “Shellshock”. In short it permits an attacker to gain total control over a machine, and even use that machine to infect others. However it’s not just computers that may be affected by Shellshock. Any […]

The ICAEW has just issued a warning about a new phishing e-mail scam that is targeting taxpayers. What do you and your clients need to look out for? Latest scam. The ICAEW Tax Faculty has reported that a new e-mail scam is doing the rounds. This one says: “We wish to inform you that as […]

As of October 1 2014 there are changes being put in place to the national minimum wage. The changes are as follows:   Age/Type From 01/10/13 From 01/10/14 21 and over £6.31 £6.50 18-20 £5.03 £5.13 Over compulsary school age but under 18 £3.72 £3.79 Apprentice rate £2.681 £2.73