Author Archives: Mike Couzens

Growth Vouchers & Superfast Broadband

Growth Vouchers is a government scheme to help businesses get strategic business advice and can get a grant of up to £2,000 to cover 50% of the cost of professional advice. The good news is that CGA is an approved growth voucher advisor and we have already used growth vouchers to save several clients money […]

HMRC warn of phishing email scam

HMRC are warning taxpayers to be wary of the latest in a long line of email phishing scams that claims taxpayers have 'made mistakes while completing their last tax form application'. HMRC have updated their list of phishing email scams to include the latest bogus email being circulated. According to HMRC: 'the email contains a […]

High Income Child Benefit Charge

Since January 2013 if your net adjusted income exceeds £50,000, you may need to declare a charge to claw back any child benefit that has been received by you or the person with whom you were living at the time the child benefit was paid. This will involve also checking whether your partner has net […]