by Marie Stein | 13 Jan, 2017 | Management services
How to save VAT on DIY residential property development Doing any type of property development is expensive. The usual rule of thumb seems to be that it will always cost you at least double your initial estimate. And you should then add VAT at 20% to the whole...
by Marie Stein | 5 Jan, 2017 | Management services
This time last year, I wrote a blog about what I’d learned in the previous year. It was a very useful exercise from both a personal and business point of view and writing the blog helped me to come into 2016 feeling much more focused than in previous years....
by Marie Stein | 14 Dec, 2016 | Management services
Whether you’re a building contractor, commercial property developer or you’re doing any sort of DIY/self-build project, the subject of VAT and building materials is one of the most frustrating and difficult. Why is this? Well it’s all to do with the...
by Marie Stein | 28 Nov, 2016 | Management services
We’re getting towards the end of the calendar year and I’m already getting queries about VAT on year end management charges, so I thought it was a good time to revisit a very common subject area. Inter-company and intra-company transactions and VAT are...
by Marie Stein | 20 Nov, 2016 | Management services
Pre-registration fixed assets VAT allowed in full: HMRC has issued R&C Brief 16/2016 http://tinyurl.com/h77xnw5 to clarify the position about VAT on fixed assets purchased before the date of registration. Over-zealous VAT officers… It seems that in recent...
