TaxCalc Blog

Tax Round-Up in association with Accounting Web

TaxCalc has teamed up with Accounting Web and Rebecca Cave to provide you with topical tax guides.  

The first of four guides will be published in October and will focus on making the most of savings and dividend allowances. 

TaxCalc Shortlisted yet again at the British Accountancy Awards 2016

The nominations are in for the ‘Practice Software Product of the Year’ and we are delighted to have made the shortlist in this highly prestigious category.

This is the third year that we’ve been nominated. We consistently strive to create innovative, intuitive software that simply works for you – and all for a price that’s hard to match. It adds up to exceptional value.

TaxCalc SmartPractice Seminars 2016 – bringing innovative thinking to your practice

At TaxCalc we are great believers in the value of innovation, especially in our rapidly-evolving, always-on digital world, where your clients and colleagues are rarely more than a few taps on a keyboard away.

We know that knowledge feeds innovation and better practices, which in turn helps to create a better, more efficient, and ultimately more successful accountancy practice.

Our SmartPractice Seminars are just one example of this commitment to supporting you, our customers by sharing our knowledge and providing information that actually makes a difference to your businesses.

Making Tax Digital - Consultation Documents

HMRC have now published their consultation documents on the Making Tax Digital (MTD) strategy. Covering six separate documents and totalling 243 pages, together they set out HMRC’s vision for the future for the UK’s tax system.

For some time now, we’ve been taking time to inform our customers of the key concepts behind Making Tax Digital: Digital Tax Accounts, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and Quarterly Updates. The consultations not only help explain these plans but introduce some new ideas not previously imagined.

We’ve dissected the first of the six documents and here are our high-level findings…

First TaxCalc SmartPractice Seminar goes down a storm!

Friday 24^th June 2016 saw the first TaxCalc SmartPractice Seminar take place at The Aviator Hotel, Farnborough.

The feedback from the seminar has been outstanding with over 90% confirming they would attend again in 2017 and over 85% would recommend the SmartPractice to other practitioners.

HMRC Making Tax Digital Update

It’s been almost two months since we last posted about HMRC’s Making Tax Digital strategy.

Due to matters such as the local elections and the EU Referendum, not an awful lot has happened since then. However, there have been a few matters of note arising…

TaxCalc CloudConnect at Accountex

TaxCalc recently showcased its latest development, TaxCalc CloudConnect. The service connects your desktop software to a cloud database, which we store and back up for you.

Here's our Commercial Director, Steve Checkley, discussing the service with François Badenhort of AccountingWeb.

Ramping up – why a rush of new customers can be good news for existing ones

Customers. It is all about customers. Attracting new customers is obviously important for any business, as is offering new products and services that existing customers can buy. However, what matters most is looking after the customers that you already have. Of course, that’s not a new principle but it is one that is easy to lose sight of when things get busy.