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22 October 2018 Halesworth & Southwold Community News Halesworth Remembrance Day Service 2018


MoST people will be well aware that this year marks the 100th anniversary of the end of the First world war during which almost one million British servicemen lost their lives. To mark this milestone the Remembrance Day parade and church service in Halesworth will take place on the morning of november 11th. The act of Remembrance will begin at 10.40am at the war


memorial at St Marys Church, where a two minute silence will be observed at 11am, after this the service will continue inside the church. The Halesworth Royal


British Legion along with a piper, Alistair Campbell, the Army cadets and others, will march from the Thoroughfare to the war memorial at about 10.30am. Members of the public are very welcome to


join in. If anyone would like


to become a member of Halesworth Royal British Legion our next meeting is on September 18th in The Stables at the back of the Angel Inn in Halesworth. Please feel free to attend, our meetings are every third Tuesday of the month. If anybody has any queries


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partnership, a sole trader or even trustees on behalf of a settlement) will make hundreds of decisions throughout the business’s/trust’s lifetime, any one of which could have tax implications. If the taxman visits and thinks he can collect more tax, he could argue that any decision made was “for the purpose of avoiding tax”. The taxman can try, but he has no right to tell people how to run their businesses - he can only apply tax law. In borderline cases, the taxman has to argue that the avoidance of tax or the conveyance of a benefit has occurred as a result of the transactions undertaken. If your paperwork shows good commercial reasons (intended to benefit the business as a whole) behind any decision taken, the Inspector of Taxes will have a hard job proving otherwise. All you need do is keep


evidence of your decisions as you go. The evidence to be kept should


include notes of telephone conversations, a note of any


decisions made at informal meetings of company directors and, of course, minutes of formal board meetings; the latter having to be kept in the company minute books. I am not saying that routine everyday decisions of a trivial nature should be recorded ad nauseam. I am talking more of the one-off things such as decisions to rent a particular property (for example from one particular person or party over another), a commercial decision to obtain finance from a particular source (possibly a director) and other things that are generally considered before formally being put before the board for agreement. Ideally you should record your thinking behind these decisions. (Companies are actually required by law to declare most transactions with directors’ non-company affairs in the annual accounts and it is these declarations that give HM Revenue & Customs most of their ammunition). Any notes taken should naturally include the date the meeting/decision occurred and the names of those party to the decision. It may sound obvious, but it is surprising how often these little things are overlooked. Just a quick example of this


in action – a director discussed his forthcoming Far east trip with his company. The subject of the discussion was the fact that the director’s wife was due to accompany him to assist him at various social engagements


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for the benefit of the company’s business. It was also recorded that it was thought that the presence of the director’s wife produced minimal additional expenditure. At a subsequent PAye audit, HMRC ultimately accepted that no benefit charges (which would have been substantial) should be levied for the director’s wife accompanying him to the Far east. I am not suggesting that


everyone promptly goes abroad to follow the above example - for one thing the trip had to be of a business nature in the first place. My point is that by recording your good intentions at the time decisions are made, this can put the brakes on the taxman’s spin at a later stage. For further information on any


of the above points or to discuss your tax affairs generally, please do not hesitate to contact Robin Beadle at ensors Chartered Accountants, Saxmundham on


01728 603005. This article seeks to address


general business and financial issues and due care has been taken in its preparation. ensors cannot accept responsibility for loss incurred by any person, company or entity as a result of acting, or failing to act, on any material in this publication. Specialist advice should always be sought in relation to your particular circumstances.


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