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National living wage, new apprentice NI rates, and employment allowance
National Living Wage From 1 April 2016, the government introduced a new mandatory national living wage (NLW) for workers aged 25 and above, initially […]
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Companies Warned about new Transparency Law!
Does this spell the end of “secretive” company structures? With effect from 6TH April 2016 every UK Company is required to obtain and hold beneficial […]
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Are VAT Inspectors an Endangered Species?
During the past few weeks, a number of business have received notifications from HMRC, informing them that it would like carry out a “remote” VAT […]
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Valuation insights: HMRC withdraws valuation checks services
With effect from 31 March 2016, HMRC’s Shares & Assets Valuation is withdrawing its valuation services for PAYE health checks and ITEPA (Income Tax (Earnings […]
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Valuation insights: Selling shares for more (or less) than market value
We have recently seen a number of instances where shareholders’ agreements contain a different method for allocating sale proceeds to shareholders from the Articles of […]
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Valuation insights: Death of the control premium?
It has been a long established practice that when valuing a private company using valuation data from comparable listed companies a control premium should be […]
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Valuation insights: New rules for purchase price allocations
The new accounting standard FRS 102 requires that on a company or business purchase the separate intangible assets acquired should be identified and valued. With […]
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Businesses urged to protect themselves from Cyber Crime
In response to a recent business survey on cyber-crime the Office of Warwickshire Police and Crime Commissioner has created a DVD on cyber crime for SMEs […]
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HMRC’s collect additional £3.5 billion through focusing on SME VAT underpayment
HMRC has raised £3.5bn in the last year through investigations into the under-payment of VAT by small businesses, suggesting that these businesses are coming under […]
Employment Related Securities (ERS) rules apply when shares or similar company interests are given, transferred or sold in connection with someone’s role as an employee or director. This includes situations such as issuing new shares to an employee, gifting shares, transferring shares between directors, or putting loan stock arrangements in …
April 14, 2026
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