by Nick Williams, head of UK Accountants, QuickBooks With HMRC’s new Making Tax Digital for VAT legislation around the corner, Hull businesses need not fear the looming changes. HMRC’s new regulation around digital taxation comes into force for businesses with a turnover of £85,000 or more inApril 2019. The first stage of Making TaxDigital for VAT (MTD) will require all VAT-registered businesses...

Day patients at the Hospice in Chamberlain Road will hold their Christmas parties next week and will receive gifts including items which the team at the Deep Business Centre have been collecting since November. More donations are being collected now and will be picked up by staff from the Hospice ready to give to patients in the bedded unit on Christmas Day. A call is also going out for people...

Wykeland Group has submitted plans to complete its @TheDock tech campus in Hull’s Fruit Market creative quarter to accelerate the growth of one of the UK’s leading digital clusters. The Hull-based regeneration company is proposing to develop two further buildings totalling 31,000 sq ft of offices, co-working and meeting space at the @TheDock development. The multimillion-pound investment is...

A company with 10 years’ experience in providing all-weather surfaces for sport has relaunched to reflect its growth into new sectors. Synthetic Turf Solutions has become PlayPitch as part of its focus on four key products. After initially creating golf putting greens, the business now also offers football, rugby and multi-game areas for schools, sporting facilities and private clients. The...

The rugby league side had been using various spreadsheets to control key operations such as sponsorships, hospitality and fixtures. It approached Vensis, a company that has worked with many highly competitive clients, including in Formula One, to create a system to improve this workflow. Hull KR CEO Mike Smith said: “We realised that trying to manage things on spreadsheets was not working for...