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Paula will be speaking Cambridgeshire Branch Meeting

Date: 01 Jul 2025

Time: 07:00 PM

Price: Members only

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ICB Online Events, Online Webinar, Online

Join Paula Veysey-Smith FICB, Vice President ICB to explore growing and succeeding in your bookkeeping practice.

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We feel entirely supported as a growing small business with the range of accounting support including PAYE, Nest pensions, VAT returns and on-going Xero processing.  We have been a customer for nearly 10 years and have received an excellent service and can highly recommend MPower.

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We’ve worked with M:Power for several years and have been extremely happy with the professional and service provided.  Most recently Paula has helped us set up the accounts of a new business venture. A friendly approach and is always happy to explain the complexities of accounting in layman’s terms!

Hatty Philips

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We’ve been working with Paula and her team since the end of 2015. IDology is a small business and Paula understands exactly what we need and is brilliant in coming up for the solutions that suit us best. The team are responsive and professional and we couldn’t ask for better support. 

Lucy Ratcliffe

News & Views


by Paula Veysey-Smith 5 June 2025
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Working from home
by Paula Veysey-Smith 22 May 2025
Do you work from home? If you do, either full-time or part-time, you may be eligible to claim certain expenses either against your own taxes or your Limited Company ones. Many factors will determine what you can claim such as working location, employment status (employee, self-employed, company director), and how much of your home is used for work. What can I claim as an employee of a company? You can claim: A flat-rate allowance of £6 per week (or £26 per month) without needing to provide evidence of expenses. This is the simplest method and can be claimed via your tax code or tax return. The actual costs (if you don't use the flat rate) which can include a proportion of the following: Heating and electricity Internet and phone bills Water (if it’s metered and usage is clearly work-related) You cannot claim rent or mortgage interest unless you're self-employed. These expenses can be claimed via HMRC’s online portal if they have not already been reimbursed by your employer! What can I claim if self-employed (sole trader or via a Partnership)? Here you have two options: 1. Simplified Expenses (Flat Rate) Based on hours you work from home each month: 25–50 hours/month → £10/month 51–100 hours/month → £18/month 101+ hours/month → £26/month 2. Actual Expenses Method You can claim a proportion of: Rent or mortgage interest (not capital repayments) Utilities (gas, electricity, water) Council tax Internet and phone Cleaning and maintenance Home insurance (if work-related) You’ll need to work out the percentage of your home used for business, usually by the number of rooms (not including bathrooms, corridors, storage space) or square footage. One word of warning is never claim the whole use of a room for business as every room will have duality in use. This is also important if you own your home as a room declared purely an office could attract Capital Gains Tax when the property is sold. We suggest that any room should only be claimed at 90% for business. And only one room can be used, not a multiple! These costs should be included on your Self-Assessment tax return. Can I make a claim for these expenses in my Limited Company? Yes, you most certainly can. At MPower Accounting we not only recommend using the actual expenses method as set out above, we provide our clients with a bespoke spreadsheet to calculate these expenses, and others such as mileage, on a month-by-month basis. These amounts can then be claimed as expenses to the Company and paid out to you. It is one of the tax efficient methods of taking money from your business. Capturing and calculating monthly your regular working from home expenses is the best way of ensuring they are recorded correctly. To help you do this we are offering a free download of the spreadsheet usually only available to our clients; please use the link below to get this. Paying taxes is a necessary evil but I am a firm believer in minimising this liability for both individuals and companies. Correctly claiming working at home expenses is one way to reduce your tax bill. Please do contact us if we can help you further identifying all the expenses you can claim and also for further assistance in how to correctly use and populate the downloaded template.
by Paula Veysey-Smith 28 April 2025
Key changes in Employer National Insurance (NI) rates and thresholds for the 2025-26 year have meant advice on the tax efficient salary for Directors has significant altered.

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