Very Awkward Tax: A bite-size guide to VAT for small business
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In this new e-book, her third, Emily Coltman ACA, one of the UK's foremost small business accountants, answers all these questions and many more, in the plain, simple English we have come to expect from her work.
Emily Coltman
Emily Coltman, Chief Accountant to FreeAgent, is a very unusual Chartered Accountant - she communicates in plain English as well as accounting-speak! After graduating from the University of Cambridge, she trained and qualified with growing accountancy practice Cannon Moorcroft, where she looked after accounts and tax for a portfolio of micro-business clients. This gave her a keen interest in accounting software and training, which led to starting up her own business making screen-capture tutorial videos, and later to joining FreeAgent, where she works with worldwide small businesses to help them use this simple online accounting system to keep their books in real time. Emily is passionate about helping the owners of small and growing businesses to escape their fear of 'the numbers', and believes that, with the right tools and guidance - some of which she aims to provide in this book, absolutely anyone, even if they were hopeless at maths at school - can learn to look after the finances of a small business.
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Very Awkward Tax - Emily Coltman
Very Awkward Tax
A guide to UK VAT for small business owners
By Emily Coltman FCA
An Enterprise Nation book
www.enterprisenation.com
Harriman House Ltd
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Petersfield
Hampshire
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First published in Great Britain in 2013, updated 2015
Copyright © Harriman House Ltd
The right of Emily Coltman to be identified as the author has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988.
ISBN: 978-1-908003-65-2
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This book is for my darling husband Matthew, with a big hug and heartfelt thanks for all your wonderful support and love – and for coming up with the alternative acronym Very Awkward Tax
xxx
Contents
About the author
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 – What is VAT?
Chapter 2 – VAT Registration
Chapter 3 – VATable Sales
Chapter 4 – Accounting For VAT
Chapter 5 – Reclaiming Input VAT
Chapter 6 – Filling In A VAT Return And Paying VAT
Chapter 7 – VAT And International Trade
Chapter 8 – Weird And Wonderful VAT Rules
Conclusion
About the author
Emily Coltman FCA, Chief Accountant to FreeAgent, is a very unusual Chartered Accountant – she can talk and write in plain English as well as accounting-speak!
After graduating from the University of Cambridge, she trained and qualified with growing accountancy practice Cannon Moorcroft, where she looked after accounts and tax for a portfolio of micro-business clients.
This gave her a keen interest in accounting software and training, which led to starting up her own business making screen-capture tutorial videos, and later to joining FreeAgent, where she works with worldwide small businesses to help them use this simple online accounting system to keep their books in real time.
Emily is passionate about helping the owners of small and growing businesses to escape their fear of the numbers, and believes that, with the right tools and guidance – some of which she aims to provide in this book – absolutely anyone, even if they were hopeless at maths in school, can learn to look after the finances of a small business.
Emily is also the author of Refreshingly Simple Finance for Small Business and Micro Multinationals, both published by Harriman House.
Acknowledgements
Firstly, thank you to my employers FreeAgent who sponsored me to write this book. I think that’s a round of Krispy Kreme doughnuts I owe the management team!
I have a lot of great friends in the business world and it’d take another book to name them all, but I would like to thank in particular those who’ve both helped me with VAT research and encouraged me to write:
Dennis Howlett – who first opened my eyes to the world of the blog and showed me that there was more to accounting than routine work.
Robert Killington – friendly VAT expert extraordinaire.
Michael Green – who always has a word of encouragement and praise for a new writing project and has promoted my other books so enthusiastically.
The Enterprise Nation crew!
And outside the business community, I’d never have started to write if it hadn’t been for the example set by my dad, who’s been writing professionally since before I was born – and my mum, who so patiently types up all his work. I love you both so much. Snick the Snick x
Introduction
Welcome to VAT, which despite the title of this book actually stands for Value Added