Solicitors in Swindon are being urged by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to bring their tax affairs up to date or face tougher penalties. A new UK-wide tax scheme, the Solicitors’ Tax Campaign, is the latest voluntary disclosure opportunity from HMRC that gives specific groups of taxpayers the chance to get their tax affairs...
Accountancy firm Grant Thornton has appointed Adina Watt as business development manager for the South West. Adina, pictured, moves to the region from the North West where she was the firm’s business development manager in its Manchester and Liverpool offices. Prior to joining Grant Thornton she held the same position at one of Manchester’s...
Exports by South West firms have risen slightly over the past year despite turmoil in the key Eurozone market, new figures show. And more companies are following the Government’s advice and selling overseas as a way of strengthening their business. Regional trade boss Russell Jones welcomed today’s figures with cautious optimism and pointed to...
Continued expansion at Swindon-based star retailer Oak Furniture Land has helped it climb up a widely-respected league table of the country’s 100 fastest-growing private businesses. The firm, which appeared in the annual Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 100 league table at number at 51 last year, has performed even better this year and claimed...
Swindon-based Nationwide Building Society’s record on gender and race equality has earned it a top 10 placing in a major national report for the third year in a row. The Nationwide, Britain’s biggest building society, was also rated Platinum for its gender diversity work and Gold for race diversity in the lists of private...
Half-year profits have soared by 83% to £606m at Swindon-based Nationwide, the UK’s largest building society, as it continued to win business from high street banks. The results for the six months to September 30 show it opened a new current every 50 seconds, as a result growing its share of the current account...
Swindon-based Nationwide building society has appointed Ann Brown as HR director. Ann, pictured, was previously UK senior vice president for HR at Capgemini, the global consulting, technology and outsourcing firm. With more than 30 years’ experience in HR, Ann has held HR director and group HR director positions across a range of sectors and...
The spotlight will be turned on crowd funding next week when expert Anthony Lovell de Souza talks to Swindon networking group Business Village. Crowd funding is an emerging online concept, which anyone can use to raise money for a project or idea. In the last four years, more than 170 crowd funding websites have sprung...
Proposito Financial Planning has been awarded prestigious chartered financial planner status by the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). The Malmesbury-based firm, which specialises in providing bespoke financial planning services to individuals and businesses, joins an elite group of firms which have met the rigorous criteria relating to professionalism and capability demanded by the CII, and...
Accountancy firm Sunflower Accounts has launched an app to help business owners, directors or their employees keep track of their revenue and expenditure remotely. The free app is available on ITunes and on GooglePlay. It includes an income tracker and receipt manager for tracking sales revenue and logging expenditure on the go. It also...
