by johnireland | Articles
For years, the family holiday cottage enjoyed a quiet tax advantage. If it was let commercially for enough weeks a year, the tax rules treated it more like a small trading business than an ordinary rental. That special status — the furnished holiday lettings regime —...
by johnireland | Articles
Most people who leave someone out of their Will do so for a reason. The relationship has broken down, there has been no contact for years, and it simply feels wrong to leave money to a person who has played no part in your life. The trouble is that a Will is written...
by johnireland | Articles
For more than a decade, owners of small firms have had a quiet safety net. If a new recruit was not working out, there was a two-year window in which, for most ordinary dismissals, the employee could not bring an unfair dismissal claim. Plenty of businesses have leant...
by johnireland | Articles
Most business owners over 50 are diligent about the things they can see. The accounts are filed on time, the van is serviced, the boiler has its annual check. Yet one of the most useful health checks available — free, quick and painless — is the one hardly anyone...
by johnireland | Articles
Ask most business owners how they are doing and you will hear a number. Turnover is up. Occupancy is at ninety-something per cent. The last quarter was the best yet. Ask them what happens to the business, or the portfolio, on the day they are no longer there, and the...
