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Your business year end, not 5 April, is relevant for capital allowances purposes.

For every £2 that your adjusted net income exceeds £100,000 the £11,850 personal allowance is reduced by £1.

Your maximum annual investment in ISAs for 2018/19 is £20,000.

Good managers may have high expectations of their team members, but how high should your expectations be in order to maintain a motivated team?

Setting goals which push staff to achieve their best can lead to very positive results.

The amounts that employers and workers will be required to pay into workplace pensions are due to increase from 6 April unless the worker opts out.

With recent, very public governance failures at businesses such as BHS, Carillion and other well known brands, it is clear that business leaders need to do more in terms of living up to their responsibilities, following best practice, etc.

Over recent years HMRC has increasingly cracked down on email and SMS phishing, and a number of criminals are turning to cold-calling publicly available phone numbers to steal money from taxpayers.

HMRC has issued Employer Bulletin (February 2019) which includes a number of interesting articles on:

• End of year reporting
• Reporting expenses and benefits
• Student Loan notices and a new type of Student Loan repayment that employers will need to be able to process via payroll (Post Graduate Loans)
• Updates to the Starter checklist - used for new employees
• Reporting the Disguised Remuneration Loan Charge
• Updates to P9 Notices of Coding
• Payrolling benefits in kind
• Scottish Income Tax and
• the Welsh Rate of Income Tax and new codes for Welsh taxpayers.

The National Minimum Wage (NMW) and National Living Wage (NLW) are the legal minimum wage rates that must be paid to employees.

With the end of the tax year looming there is still time to save tax for 2018/19.

HMRC is urging business owners to make sure they are ready for a potential no deal Brexit.

The Scottish Parliament has confirmed the income tax bands that will apply to Scottish taxpayers for 2019/20.

The Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Mel Stride, has made a statement to the House of Commons setting out HMRC's progress on delivery of Making Tax Digital (MTD).

Due to Brexit, 2019 looks set to be a year filled with uncertainty for businesses.

Many of us will have made a new year's resolution for 2019.

In December 2018 changes made to CGT entrepreneurs' relief included in the latest Finance Bill could have the effect of denying the relief to certain employee shareholders.

A further late change to the Finance Bill will re-introduce relief for acquired goodwill on the acquisition of businesses with eligible intellectual property from 1 April 2019.

Individual's 2017/18 income tax, CGT, class 2 and 4 NIC liabilities should have been paid by 31 January 2019.

The Government and HMRC have updated its collection of high-level guides called partnership packs, intended to help businesses involved in importing and exporting prepare for changes to customs procedures after 29 March 2019 in the event of a no deal scenario.