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Pick your accountant carefully Have you ever asked your accountant about Managed Service Company (MSC) rules? After a very recent investigation, by HMRC, into contractors and their relationship with their accountants has resulted in one Accountancy firm being deemed a MSC provider. What does this mean and how did it come about? An MSC provider […]
Many clients have come to us for financial guidance AFTER they have started trading online, spending time and money setting up websites and creating online accounts with their chosen sellers from Amazon, EBay, Shopify & Easy, to name a few, only to find they have wasted their time and money! Every trader must earn money and money […]
The amazing guys at www.vittopro.com have kindly given us some insight on the trials and tribulations, trading on Amazon. Owner & Entrepreneur, Phil Bone, is an expert in all sorts of support and protective wear for sports and has been a huge success selling on Amazon. How did the great man do it? Why did you […]
Amazon accounting is extremely complicated with many traders using the net amount paid to them as their sales figure, which inevitably ends up with tax investigations. The Amazon report summaries are very confusing, none of which seem to tally back to the amount paid into the bank account, if you are using date range reports […]
It’s not the most positive article we’ve ever had to write, but we’re all about helpfulness here at My Accountant Friend. One of the questions many self-employed people find they may have to consider is “How do I close my company?” As HMRC are inevitably going to have to be involved, it’s not as straightforward […]
Our last few blog posts have featured interviews with CEOs and founders of startups (see our category ‘In Good Company‘), and it occurred to us that, as a blog attached to an online accountants (My Accountant Friend), it might be a nice idea to look into what it is that makes our working relationship with […]
The latest Freelance Confidence Index has been published, and the numbers confirm what many freelancers have been saying privately: it’s not the easiest time to be going it alone and major political events have played their part. That said, the freelance community is still earning reasonably well, and the recognition that “you are what you […]