Sunday 29 April 2012

Simplified record keeping

Currently all businesses are required to calculate their trading profits on the same basis, irrespective of whether they are a multinational corporate or small cottage industry. Maybe this is a sweeping generalisation, but small business owners have a notorious reputation for being bad at record keeping. Who can blame them when the mountain of administration required for small businesses to calculate their profits is often completely disproportionate to the scale of the business?

So for those of you who have been presented with an overflowing supermarket carrier bag full of fuel receipts, tea stained invoices and maybe the odd chocolate bar wrapper, finally a solution may be at hand which will make business record keeping easier for your small business clients. That is, the proposals set out in The Simpler Income Tax for the Simplest Small Businesses consultation document.

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