Each week Bath accountancy firm Pearson May teams up with Bath Business News to bring you the top national finance stories. Government changes pension rules Tax allowances changed and rumoured age increases scrapped. Click here for more information HMRC stops sending paper returns automatically Some 135,000 self-assessment customers filed paper returns last year. For further details, click here ...
Ambitious small to medium-sized businesses in Bath and across the West of England are being offered support to buy new products and equipment to increase production and help them grow. The funding is from a new round of Business Growth and Adaptations Grants launched by West of England Combined Authority (WECA). Businesses can apply...
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivered what he described as a ‘Budget for Growth’ earlier this month after the Office for Budget Responsibility forecast a stronger than expected performance from the UK economy this year, with inflation predicted to fall significantly by the end of the year, writes Pearson May partner Matthew Rutter. Below he sets...
Legal and financial planning services firm Mogers Drewett is to expand its market share in both areas following its acquisition of Bath-based boutique private client practice firm Freemans Solicitors. The move comes after founder Shaun Freeman decided to retire. Established in 1999, single office firm Freemans Solicitors developed a specialist private client practice which was...
Law firm Thrings has appointed three newly qualified solicitors in a move it says reflects the way it continues to retain talent nurtured through its trainee scheme. Jake Wennen will be based in the agriculture team at the firm’s Bath office, while Rhiannon Forbes is now a member of its residential property team in...
Three former University of Bath students who have gone on to launch their own successful businesses in the city are to shed light on their entrepreneurial journeys at an event next week. Staged by Bath Unlimited, the organisation helping promote the city’s sustainable growth and future success, the event will look at how these...
Business leaders, academics and student entrepreneurs will share their business and research expertise and showcase their start-up successes at the University of Bath’s second annual Enterprise Day next week. Enterprise Day on Wednesday, March 29, is part of the university’s Enterprise and Entrepreneurship programme, which supports staff, students, graduates and entrepreneurs with their ambitions. The...
Pioneering clean energy firm Good Energy has launched a new smart export tariff for households with solar panels as part of its strategy to expand its decentralised energy services offering. Called Power for Good, the tariff will pay customers 10p per kWh, which the Chippenham-headquartered group describes as a leading rate for a variable...
Bath firms need more help from the government in the face of stubbornly high inflation, including transitioning to more energy efficient sources and easing supply chain difficulties, the region’s biggest business organisation has said. With annual inflation unexpectedly jumping from 10.1% in January to 10.4% last month, Business West – which runs Bath Chamber of Commerce...
Regional accountancy firm Milsted Langdon’s tax team in its Bath office has been strengthened by the arrival of Zoe Chandler as a tax manager. Zoe, pictured, has joined after more than six-and-a-half years at accountants Old Mill, where she trained and went on to become a senior tax specialist. A highly qualified Chartered Tax...
