To all our Clients and Visitors
Please note that our offices will be closed from 12 noon December 24th 2009 to January 3rd 2010. During this closure period we will have a skeleton staff available to attend to emergency queries from our clients on:
29th December 10 - 4pm
30th December 10 - 4pm
31st December 10 - 4pm
Scottish Widows are launching their next issue of their 5 Year Fixed Rate Deposit Account for personal funds with effect from 24th September 2009.
This new account has a competitive fixed interest rate of 5.15% gross/AER giving you a good return on your investment over the longer 5 year term.
Key Features
- Fixed annual interest rate of5.15% gross/AERfor the 5 year term.
- Start date of14 October 2009, with final maturity date of 13 October 2014.
- Available to new and existing personal customers.
- Minimum investment of £10,000 and maximum of £5 million.
- Interest can be paid away monthly, quarterly or annually.
- Funds received in advance of the start date will earn interest at
Bank of England base rate (currently 0.50%) up to the start date.
- Interest paid gross for investments of £50,000 and over from
personal customers, which are classified as "qualifying time deposits"
(HMRC definition).
- One-off deposits only, with no additional deposits permitted.
- If customers need to withdraw their money before the end of the
term, they can close their fixed rate deposit account, however they
will be charged an amount equal to 365 days' interest. We will work
this out at the rate at which we pay interest on their fixed rate
deposit account.
- We reserve the right to close the issue early if demand is higher than expected.
Please email us at service@bfca.eu for an application form.
Blevins Franks Chartered Accountants are pleased to confirm that from the 6th April 2009 we will have a new name and a new look.
For the start of the new Fiscal Year we will be trading as BFCA Limited, with a modern new logo.
Between now and then you will see the branding change on our Blog ( from yesterday !), our website , and our clients only portal, the official company name change will be dated 6th April 2009.
You willalso see that this Blog is now called "Accountants for ProfessionalContractors and Freelancers" which reflects a stronger focus of thisblog and for the expanding part of our business headed up by PhilRichards which from 6th April 2009 will be called the Small BusinessTeam.
As a firmBFCA Limited has a wider focus and Ali Alidina is heading up a growingteam looking after Medium and Large size business as well as the AuditTeam.
So, lots of exciting things happening here at BFCA in the new Fiscal Year.
We track website and blog readership using google analytics and havebeen tracking our readership for 5 months since we launched our newwebsite and blog.
January showed a 50% increase over the previous month so that was a good start to the year !
Here are our Top 10 Articles by views over the last 5 months
- Changes to Tax Codes effective 1st September 2008
- Business Entertainment Expenses - Are any Tax Deductible?
- £50,000 guarantee for your savings - But where is it safe?
- QROPS - Good New for Expatriates with UK Pension Schemes
- VAT Rates - Important changes effective 1st December 2008
- 2008/9 Year End Tax Planning a Window of Opportunity
- Tax and VAT strategies for beating recession and the credit crunch
- Self-Assessment Tax Returns (SATR) - a mysterious new box
- Interest Received on Joint Bank Accounts
- HMRC Interest Rates - Applicable 6th November 2008
These are the links to the Top 10 most popular articles each month.
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As an editor I am pleased to see readership growing and also use thetable above to make sure we are writing what people want to read. So Iwill keep the content to Personal Finance,Accountancy and Taxationissues and not write about some of the things that we had written aboutto do with social networking, blogging,marketing, recruitment agenciesetc...
Thanks for reading the blog, please remember I am always open to feedback
By Phil Richards
Blevins Franks now has a channel on YouTube which is available to the public.
The first series of 8 videos we have recorded are video guides onhow to manage the Directors Loan Account using More Software. Thesevideos are in our new "BFCA" branding which will be fully effectivefrom April 2009.
You can view the playlist of this series by using this link or you can start to watch the play list at the first video below.
I am pleased to confirm the launch of our new integrated serviceoffer that includes FreeAgent, the online accounting and managementsystem that makes it easy to manage your own Limited Company.
Blevins Franks has been using FreeAgent for nearly 12 months and wehave a proportion of our clients using this service but payingFreeAgent directly at £22.50 + VAT a month.
Now a FreeAgent user can have FreeAgent and a full accountancyservice for just £65 + VAT a month. The service includes everything youneed to manage your company efficiently and as an added bonus it alsoincludes Tax Investigation Insurance.
Please see here for full details of FreeAgent and of our accountancy service for Professional Contractors and Freelancers.
Clients with existing service agreements with us can transfer tothis new service if they wish to, and existing FreeAgent clients who donot use us as their accountants can also transfer to this integratedservice.
We work hard on the blog trying to make it of interest toProfessional Contractors and Freelancers, Staffing Companies and SmallBusiness and its great when we get some feedback.
Dennis Howlett who is a blogger and consultant on technology in accountancy wrote a complimentary article about our blog and also made some hepful suggestions.
Its nice to be noticed :-)
The Recruitment Exchange is a new "Free Post" online portal forRecruiters to use to advertise positions and for ProfessionalFreelancers and Contractors to register their CV and advertise theirskills.
Launched only in January 2009 we are pleased to be featured on the website as Accountants and Company Formation Agents and we look forward to helping candidates get started with their own business.
The costs of forming a Limited Company is reducing each year. A fewyears ago you would be paying anything between £150 to £500 to registera company, but with the Companies House online system running soefficiently now costs have been reduced dramatically.
Our own service availableonline raises a charge of £9 + VAT when you form a Limited Company andso the total costs of the formation when you include the CompaniesHouse fee of £15 ( no VAT ) is £25.57.
Your Limited Company is normally formed in the same day, if youregister the new limited company online by midday, you will almostcertainly have all the pdf documents for the company back by close ofplay on that day.
With the Blevins Franks online formation system you also have access to filing companies hosue forms online and processing your annual return online.
Limited Company Formation only £25.57 http://www.blevinsfrankscorporate.com