Office Assistants

Essex bookkeepers Office Assistants discuss a few of the advantages of signing up to any sort of business forum.

Whether you're brainstorming and sharing ideas with one of your partners, or talking through a brief with a new client, face to face is always beneficial.

Essex bookkeepers have been looking at the main points from this year's Budget that will affect small businesses in the coming period.

Two recent prosecutions by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have brought home the gravity of the reformed and far more stringent health and safety offence sentencing guidelines which were introduced in February 2016.

If you're a small to medium business that will be required under the new Government regime to provide a workplace pension, there are certain key dates that you need to have in your pension diary for this year, say Office Assistants.

At any given time an employee can ask to see any personal data that their employer holds on them. This is known as a 'subject access request', and when it happens employers need to tread very carefully, says Office Assistants.

From 1st April this year, the government is setting the Flat Rate at 16.5 per cent for all limited costs traders. Here Essex bookkeepers Office Assistants discuss how the changes will affect VAT registered businesses.

Later on this year, large organisations will be subject an Apprenticeship Levy as the government changes legislation. Essex bookkeepers Office Assistants explain what the llevy is, when it comes into effect and the effect on smaller businesses.

Now that we're in the New Year say Essex bookkeepers Office Assistants, it's the perfect time to brush up on what's new in business, both in terms of the latest technology and those emerging markets which are going to be big business in 2017.

Business owners need to be aware of what's about to change when it comes to the law and regulations, so here's a guide to what you need to know this year from Essex bookkeepers Office Assistants.