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It’s no April fool… Making Tax Digital is here!
Making Tax Digital (MTD) means that VAT-registered businesses (those with a turnover above £85,000) will no longer be able to keep and submit manual records from April 1, 2019. HMRC will now only accept VAT returns that have been sent using software that supports MTD. There are dozens of products on the market that are MTD-ready. Companies that are already clients of Whitethorn and already use...
Thousands of businesses seek support in Covid-19 crisis
In figures released by the Humber LEP, just over 2,000 businesses contacted its local business advisers last week alone. The LEP’s Humber Business Growth Hub has 18 full-time advisers based within local authorities across the East Riding, Hull, North Lincolnshire, and at e-Factor Group in North East Lincolnshire. Business advisers specialising in finance, ICT, supply chain and general business...
Let’s Talk Business: Cobus Communications on working from home
We can order, configure, and have you able to make and receive calls in no time at all with the latest in VoIP/hosted technology, meaning your staff can safely work from home or any other location with an internet connection, while taking advantage of the additional options and benefits available including video conferencing, instant messaging, presence, call recording, and inclusive call costs....
Cleaning firm launches specialist coronavirus services after lockdown hits business
Fox Group has adapted vans normally used for more routine cleaning tasks to transport and dispense sodium hypochlorite to the external areas of prominent sites in and around Hull. The company is also collaborating with a partner that specialises in cleaning internal areas by applying an anti-viral mist also in use on London’s Tube network. Andrew Fox, managing director of Fox Group, said he was...
Meet Mr SPOC…
It’s often said that Hull is a bit of a student trap – that is to say, many people who come to study here like the city so much that they stay, put down roots and are eventually lucky enough to call themselves naturalised Hullensians. Martin Lauer is among them. Originally from Warwickshire, Martin arrived in Hull 25 years ago to do a degree in fine arts – one of his many passions outside the...