Tag: finance
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Half of Sole Traders Missed the First MTD Deadline. That’s Not a Taxpayer Problem.
Nearly half of the taxpayers required to file under Making Tax Digital for Income Tax missed their first deadline. Azets found that of 864,000 people eligible, only 436,000 filed on time. When a new system trips up that many people at the first hurdle, the fault sits with the system, not the sole traders and…
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Equipment Auctions Are a Great Way to Buy Kit — If You Treat Them as Homework, Not a Bargain Hunt
The case for auctions Every few months another SME owner tells me they got “a great deal” at an equipment auction, and every few months another tells me they got burned. The difference between the two almost never comes down to luck. It comes down to whether they did the boring bit — inspecting, checking,…
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The Sunday Rundown: 23 August 2026
A Budget date is locked in, the Bank of England is holding steady, hiring is cooling, and a tax change that quietly went live in April is about to catch a lot more sole traders. Here’s what mattered this week, and what it means for your business.