It takes a little more than a laptop and a social media page to get a legitimate business off the ground these days.

A trust is a legal arrangement where you give cash, property or investments to someone else so they can look after them.

You know the legal requirements around producing accounts and submitting tax returns. But do you truly know WHY you've engaged an accountant

When you head up a limited company, there will come a time where one of your current shareholders wants to retire from the company.

A Discretionary Trust allows you to put some or all of your Estate into a Trust, which can then be distributed to any of your beneficiaries.

Raw data describes the facts and figures that a business processes every day. It only becomes meaningful after context is added.

If you run your own business, it’s tempting to bring in your own family into the company. But it’s important to think it through.

When sales are slow, there are still overheads and salaries that need sorting. Pre-planning can help you weather tighter economic periods.

The post-Covid, globalised economy has created a number of challenges for the average business.

What happens if one of the leaders dies? The formal term for death planning as a business owner is succession planning.

The new Chancellor has gone one step further than the prime minister’s corporation tax U-turn on Friday.

Sideways disinheritance is a term that relates to children losing out on their share of their parent’s estate as a result of remarriage.

Business owners are no strangers to weighing risk and navigating uncertainty, but the current climate has dialled everything up.

A letter of wishes accompanies your Will. It is not legally binding but it provides guidance when dealing with your estate.

Good bookkeeping is all about recording and matching your financial transactions.

Creating a Property Protection Trust through your will allows someone to benefit from your estate after you have died.

If the rules around social functions are followed, staff events like your end-of-year party are tax- deductible for you.

Keeping the UK’s tax system running effectively and up to date with advances in technology is no easy task.

The Bank of England (BoE) has raised interest rates to 2.25% from 1.75%, the highest rate-level since the 2008 financial crisis.

An executor is a person named in a will to oversee the process of wrapping up the decedent’s estate and distributing the remaining assets.