New Furlough Scheme guidance published
The detailed Furlough Scheme rules were updated 10 November 2020.
To use the extended scheme – to 31 March 2021 – the steps that are required are:
Check if you can claim
Check which employees you can put on furlough
Steps to take before calculating your claim
Calculate how much you should
Barter your way through COVID disruption
While we wait for the magic-bullets that promise to reduce the impact of COVID – vaccines etc – should we be exploring ways to exchange goods and services with our suppliers and customers?
Barter is defined as: the exchange of goods and services without using money.
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Getting the most out of digital data
One of the great benefits of data stored in an electronic format is that it can be sorted in an endless array of reports. This offers business owners who have invested in accounts software a range of options.
Once you have input basic accounts information, transactions, from
Uncertainty
While politicians and scientists try and figure out the best way to control COVID, we are left to pick up the pieces and try and salvage what we can of our businesses.
Our economy is built on various, level playing field assumptions:
Same legal requirements,
Same opportunities to trade,
Online sales platform
If you sell goods or material that can be sold from the internet, have you considered this form of sales platform for your business?
Providing access for your goods on the internet is a sensible strategy. If we have learnt anything from COVID it is the limitations on trade when social distancing –
New national lockdown and changes to business support measures
The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson speaking at a press conference on Saturday night, 31 October 2020, confirmed widespread expectations of a second national lockdown in England to help stem the growing resurgence of the coronavirus. The Government was faced with significant concerns that if they took
Job Support Scheme for closed businesses
The CJRS or furlough scheme ended on 31 October 2020 and has been replaced by the Job Support Scheme (JSS). This JSS has been designed to help businesses and employees deal with a fresh spike of the virus and a winter of uncertainty.
The JSS is now split into two parts, the JSS Open for businesses
JSS – financial impact test for large employers
The Job Support Scheme (JSS) Open is available from 1 November 2020 for businesses that remain open but with employees working reduced hours. Employees must work at least 20% of their usual hours, paid as normal, in order to qualify for the JSS Open. The employee will then receive 66.67% of their
JSS fraudulent claims
The Job Support Scheme (JSS) has replaced the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) which came to an end on 31 October 2020.There are significant concerns that between 5%-10% of claims made under the CJRS were fraudulent or made in error.
There are additional anti-fraud measures in place to help
Handling food? Wash, those hands
If you are considering any change to your business activities that will involve handling any packaged food or raw ingredients, as you would expect, there are a raft of regulations that you will need to consider and adopt.
The Department of the Environment has published considerable guidance on the