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Tax avoidance, is it worth it?

Let’s start with a couple of truisms, tax evasion is against the law, whilst tax avoidance is a legal means

David Jones

7 May 2026

Uncategorized, Accounts, Business Regulation, Business Tax, Corporate Tax Planning, Making Tax Digital, Opinion, Payroll Services, Personal Finance, Self Assessment, Tax Investigations, Tax News, VAT

Are HMRC abusing the court system?

Recent evidence would strongly suggest that the answer is yes, given a recent string of both botched and unnecessary cases.

David Jones

30 Apr 2026

Uncategorized, Accounts, Business Regulation, Business Tax, Making Tax Digital, Opinion, Personal Finance, Personal Tax Planning, Self Assessment, Tax Investigations, Tax News, VAT

UK Tax Questions Answered by Shrewsbury Accountant No. 49

As I haven’t posted a Blog on the varied questions on tax asked by clients and members of the public

David Jones

23 Apr 2026

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Business Regulation

Protecting Business Name

We all have a name and in most cases we’ve had little input in choosing it, as it’s been chosen

David Jones

14 Mar 2019

Opinion, Personal Finance

Tax Accountant’s 6 Step Guide To: Managing Debt

If you are totally honest with yourself, you most certainly have had a debt problem in the past. Historically, you

David Jones

8 Mar 2019

Self Assessment

Tax Accountant Eats Hat

As the many readers of this Blog will testify, I am not the biggest fan of HMRC; indeed a fair

David Jones

1 Mar 2019

Self Assessment

National Minimum Wage Employer Deductions

Today I’m reporting on a hard fought battle between HMRC and Middlesbrough Football Club. The game started two years ago

David Jones

22 Feb 2019

Self Assessment

HMRC changes its mind on Director Tax Return

For years, accountants and directors alike have been irritated by HMRC insisting that all directors must register for self-assessment, even

David Jones

14 Feb 2019

VAT

VAT on Food: Are Brownies, cakes or confectionery?

In 1991 a landmark tax ruling deemed that McVitie’s famous Jaffa cake were actually cakes and not biscuits as assessed

David Jones

7 Feb 2019

Self Assessment

Tax Return Trouble

To paraphrase Shakespeare’s ‘Song of the Witches’ from Macbeth, one taxpayer used “My mother-in-law is a witch and put a

David Jones

1 Feb 2019

Business Tax, Personal Finance, Personal Tax Planning, Self Assessment

Tales from the Tax Return Season

Any accountant who has endured the onslaught of the self-assessment tax season has that one year that stands out in

David Jones

25 Jan 2019

Personal Tax Planning

World’s oldest person tax scam

In the news recently was a report that researchers have uncovered evidence which suggests that the woman registered as the

David Jones

18 Jan 2019

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