Annual Christmas Video 2019/20

Annual Christmas Video 2019/20

The Partners at Lambert Chapman LLP swap their Tax Returns for Torquay to present a special, festive edition of Fawlty Towers! On behalf of all the Staff and Partners at Lambert Chapman LLP, may we take this opportunity to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a happy...
Update: Making Tax Digital for VAT

Update: Making Tax Digital for VAT

Making Tax Digital (MTD) started becoming mandatory from 1 April 2019, meaning that the vast majority of VAT-registered businesses that are on a quarterly stagger should have submitted their first MTD VAT returns by now. I say ‘should’ since an HMRC...
IR35 and Control

IR35 and Control

For there to be a contract of employment in place, there are three main elements that need to be present. These are: Personal service – the need to carry out work by your own hand. Mutuality of obligation – there must be a mutual obligation between the parties for one...
Pension Planning Update

Pension Planning Update

Planning for your future or planning for now? We are all aware that putting money into a pension enables us to save for our future retirement but have you considered the savings that are available now? Each year, we all have up to £40,000 of annual allowance for...
Tax Planning

Tax Planning

Once upon a time, Tax Planning was seen as a right of all taxpayers. In fact books even had forewords such as ‘The aim of this book is to enable the taxpayer to minimise his commitments to the Revenue’ (1966). In the current climate however, the Courts and public...