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Yet another sorry tale of taking advice from a mate down the pub

It seems like every few days that I hear of someone taking dodgy advice from a mate down the pub,

David Jones

2 Jul 2026

Comments on Global News, Opinion, PAYE & RTI, Payroll Services, Pension, Personal Finance, Personal Tax Planning, Self Assessment, Tax News, Uncategorized

Do you have enough pension income for a comfortable retirement?

Today’s Blog is the third and final instalment of my in-depth look at pensions in the UK, following on from

David Jones

25 Jun 2026

Comments on Global News, Pension, Personal Finance, Personal Tax Planning, Tax News, Uncategorized

Millions of workers have inadequate pension provisions

As promised, today’s Blog continues my look into the UK pensions and follows up last week’s Blog, “Can we still

David Jones

18 Jun 2026

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Liability to Tax: HMRC can’t always get what it wants

To paraphrase the well-known Rolling Stones’ hit ‘You can’t always get what you want’, which certainly applied in this recent

David Jones

4 Jan 2019

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HOW YOU CAN PAY TAX STRESS FREE

As the saying goes, the only certainties in life are death and taxes; so how can paying taxes be stress

David Jones

14 Dec 2018

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Check Your State Pension Forecast

Entitlement to the state pension is contingent on having sufficient “qualifying years”. These are tax years for which you have

David Jones

7 Dec 2018

Tax Investigations

Tax was due on UKIP donations

This was a case in which arch brexiteer Arron Banks sought to use the European convention on human rights to

David Jones

29 Nov 2018

VAT

Charitable giving may be vatable

I recently became involved with a situation where HMRC demanded output tax on donations received by a charity. I found

David Jones

22 Nov 2018

Business Regulation, Business Tax

HMRC Surcharges, Pick up the phone!

This is a case where HMRC’s failure to deal with telephone calls from a taxpayer was accepted as a reasonable

David Jones

16 Nov 2018

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Accountant’s Amusing anecdotes from the trenches!

Now that I am officially semi-retired (I have every Wednesday off and extra holidays), my thoughts turned to some of

David Jones

8 Nov 2018

Self Assessment, Tax Investigations

HMRC v Steel: Director’s tax return not required

It is vitally important to distinguish between the powers actually granted by Parliament to HMRC; together with the obligations actually

David Jones

1 Nov 2018

Self Assessment

Eamonn Holmes Challenges HMRC’s IR35 Rules

HMRC is challenging the pay ITV host Eamonn Holmes received through his limited company. If Holmes is found to be

David Jones

25 Oct 2018

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