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06
Mar

LBW - Spring Budget 2024

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  Earlier today, the Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt delivered his Spring Budget with the Governments main focus being on growing the economy. Whilst the Chancellors Budget includes many announcements and changes to the tax system, we have summarised below the main points which will impact our client... Continue reading
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15
Mar

LBW - Spring Budget 2023

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  Earlier today, the Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt delivered his Spring Budget Statement with the Governments main focus being on ‘back to work’ initiatives and growing the economy. There were no substantial changes to the announcements that were made in the Autumn Statement of 17 November 2022. Ho... Continue reading
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17
Nov

LBW - Autumn Statement 2022

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Earlier today, the latest Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt delivered his Autumn Statement with the Governments main focus being to stabilise the UK economy and reduce inflation. TAX THRESHOLDS CUT/FROZEN The Chancellor confirmed that the income tax personal allowance, higher rate threshold, main Nat... Continue reading
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23
Sep

LBW - Mini-budget 2022

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Earlier today, the newly appointed Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng delivered his mini-budget with the Governments main focus being to boost economic growth and productivity.  REVERSAL OF PROPOSED CORPORATION TAX INCREASE The Chancellor confirms the government is scrapping a planned increase in t... Continue reading
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23
Mar

LBW - Spring Statement 2022

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Earlier today, Rishi Sunak unveiled his Spring Statement against a backdrop of rising fuel, energy and food costs. Whilst The Spring Statement is predominantly an annual statement providing an update on the overall health of the economy, it generally lacks any new taxation measures. However, we fel... Continue reading
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03
Mar

LBW - Spring Budget 2021

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Today Rishi Sunak delivered his Budget.  The majority of the announcements in the speech related to ongoing Covid-19 support and were focused on short-term support for people’s jobs and finances. We highlight below some of the more pertinent points announced which we believe will be of interest... Continue reading
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06
Nov

Update - Furlough Scheme extended and further economic support announced.

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Yesterday the Chancellor announced further changes to the financial support previously announced.   We will summarise the changes here: CORONAVIRUS JOB RETENTION SCHEME (CJRS) The CJRS is being extended until the end of March (previously December). If employe... Continue reading
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02
Nov

Update - Self-Employed Income Support Scheme (SEISS)

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  Firstly, apologies for the 2nd newsletter today but with the ever changing landscape surrounding Coronavirus support packages, there has been an update regarding the Self-Employed Income Support Scheme this afternoon.   Contrary to our newsletter earlier today, The Government has ... Continue reading
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02
Nov

Update - Furlough Scheme extended and further economic support announced.

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  On Saturday, the Government announced a new national lockdown and with it a change to the financial support previously announced.   Friday night had seen the release of further JSS details, which we wrote about in our newsletter dated 22 October, but by Saturday evening that scheme was... Continue reading
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22
Oct

Update - Support for businesses & the self-employed during COVID-19.

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  Today, the Government announced it will increase its winter support schemes.   With various schemes now in place, we thought it would be useful to summarise these below. CURRENT LIVE SCHEME (ENDING 31 OCTOBER 2020): This was initially announced in March 2020 and is scheduled to end... Continue reading
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15
Oct

Update - Liverpool City Region Hospitality & Leisure Support Grant

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  Firstly and most importantly, in these challenging times, we are all navigating through uncertainty for ourselves, our loved ones and our community. The whole team at LBW hope that you, your friends and families are staying healthy, well and safe. In response to the variety of business rest... Continue reading
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24
Sep

Update - The Winter Economy Plan

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  Earlier today, The Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a package of further measures dubbed ‘The Winter Economy Plan’ which is designed to help support businesses and individuals over the coming months.  We summarise below the main measures announced: WHAT IS IT? The Government will b... Continue reading
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02
Jun

Update - Local Authority Discretionary Grants Fund

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 For those of businesses who “missed out” on the grants linked to business rates and those businesses who have continuing overhead costs to meet and have experienced financial difficulty because of Covid19. This additional fund is aimed at small and micro businesses who were not eligible for th... Continue reading
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01
Jun

June 2020 Update - Support for Employers & Self-Employed

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Firstly and most importantly, in these challenging times, we are all navigating through uncertainty for ourselves, our loved ones and our community. The whole team at LBW hope that you, your friends and families are staying healthy, well and safe. On 29th May 2020 the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, ann... Continue reading
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10
Apr

Update - Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme For Employers

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We have been giving you regular updates on the job retention scheme and how it may or may not work.  The Government, as of last night, has now announced more detailed guidance on what information is required to make the claim. At LBW we want to help you get ready to make your claim under the C... Continue reading
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31
Mar

Business Grant Funding Going Live

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The local councils are now starting to take grant applications via their websites.  We have compiled a list of links below to the local borough council websites where you can find details of how to support and make your claim. WIRRAL BOROUGH COUNCIL - Click here CHESHIRE WEST AND CHESTER... Continue reading
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27
Mar

Job Retention Scheme for Employers

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We have been giving you regular updates on the job retention scheme and how it may or may not work.  The Government, as of last night, has now announced the detailed guidance behind the headline announcements. We are conscious of the vast amount of information that is currently out there at th... Continue reading
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27
Mar

Self-Employment Income Support Scheme

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Yesterday the Chancellor announced a much needed support package for the self-employed.   As part of our continued and proactive support in assisting all our clients, whatever their status, LBW are now undertaking an exercise to identify (from within our client base) who may be eligible f... Continue reading
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26
Mar

Job Retention Scheme Update

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Understandably we have received a number of calls in the last few days regarding the job retention scheme. One of the main questions has been,  Do we have a template for a furlough agreement? The independent workplace advisory service, ACAS, has said that the furlough agreements should be in ... Continue reading
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24
Mar

Updated COVID-19 Economic Measures - 24 March 2020

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With the increasing concern over the current coronavirus situation we wanted to assure that its business as usual here at LBW Chartered Accountants.  What is LBW doing to ensure continued service?  Our culture and technology already provide the opportunity for all of our staff to work fr... Continue reading
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