Danielle Frith Accounts

Good morning, Danielle here 👋🏻

With a large percentage of self employed workers being eligible for from April 2027, we are here to start setting you up so you’re ready to go…

First of all do you know your start date? They are rolling it out in phases so 6 April 2027 if your turnover is above £30,000 for 2025-26 tax year and then 6 April 2028 if your turnover is above £20,000.

If you would like a no obligation chat to see when you need to start, send me a message today on Facebook!

Based in Plymouth, working from my home office, self employed myself, AAT Accountant 😊

Struggling to balance the books or even your work life balance? 😥

Do you feel you’re wasting time focusing on the books when you could be running your business more efficiently or spending time with your family.

Try hiring in a qualified number cruncher like me! I have space for the following:-

🌀 Regular Bookkeeping
🌀 Monthly Payroll
🌀 Self Assessment
🌀 Making Tax Digital Quarterly Returns

Check out www.dfaccounts.com or message my page today 📱

🌈 Happy birthday to my executive assistant Mickey, who is 5 today! 🐶 🎁

Mickey loves muddy walks, gravy bones and hates 😅

Happy 3 Year Anniversary SMW Bookkeeping & Payroll!! 🎉 ❤️👏🏻

🎂SMW BOOKKEEPING & PAYROLL TURNS 3 🎂

What a wild 3 years this has been, grateful to my amazing clients for allowing me to help support their businesses 🤍

Here’s to many more years of SMW 🥂

CHAMPAGNE LIFESTYLE LEMONADE WAGES

🥂✈️🚁🛥️ 🥂✈️🚁🛥️ 🥂✈️🚁🛥️

Are you living the dream on social media, but telling HMRC you’re making a loss? 😅 do your luxury cars or holidays on Insta match your declared income? 🏝️

Living on caviar but telling HMRC you can only afford Aldi UK fish fingers every day? 🏰

Beware of an HMRC Lifestyle Audit 😆

Many businesses set up social media accounts to advertise their services, and HMRC can access those accounts to obtain information about their business activities 💴

They can also use social media to gather information about assets and lifestyles of individuals when checking the tax position of an individual 👀

HMRC also receive information from your bank, any of your employers, overseas authorities and many other third parties, making it easier than ever for them to identify potential discrepancies before deciding whether a tax audit is required.

You can avoid this by hiring a qualified professional to handle your self assessment tax returns, navigate the Making Tax Digital new regulations and ensure you’re fully compliant.

Or you can keep on living the dream and hope they don’t see your Instagram 🗺️

Great news if you’re considering apprenticeships!

* Get your HR advice from Tidal People
* Contact CTSW Skills LTD for apprentices!

Employing young people? Make sure you're up to speed on the rules.

Children and young workers have additional legal protections to safeguard their health, wellbeing and education. That means employers need to pay close attention to age-related rules on pay, working hours, rest breaks and the type of work that can be carried out.

Key points:
✅ Children (generally aged 13-16 and below school leaving age) can only undertake "light work" and are subject to strict limits on hours and duties.
✅ Young workers (aged 16-17 and over compulsory school age) are entitled to the Young Worker National Minimum Wage and enhanced rest break protections.
✅ Employers may need local authority permits when employing children, depending on local bylaws.
✅ As young people reach key birthday milestones, their legal entitlements and permitted working hours can change.

Looking ahead, the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 will introduce further reforms in England, including changes to working hours, Sunday working restrictions and a new requirement for child employment permits.

Regulations are still needed before the changes take effect, but employers should start reviewing their processes now.

Photo by Warren Umoh on Unsplash

Looking for proficient payroll services? I have a few spaces available 🙂

🔹 Experienced, licensed professional
🔹 HMRC compliance
🔹 Using BrightPay Cloud Services
🔹 Monthly or weekly payroll
🔹 PAYE set up available

Get in touch today, [email protected] 📧

Did you notice this update from HMRC? I don’t think many of you did hear about this so thought it would be useful to post a gentle reminder 😊

From the 2026–27 tax year, the approved mileage rate for cars and van has increased to 55p per mile.

This is great, I’m always moaning how it hasn’t changed since 2011 😆🫣 Sorry motorcycles and bicycles… you’ll have to sit this one out as no changes for you this time but we’ll take this as a small win 😅

As always, please make sure you keep a record of your business journeys to support your claims, always have the evidence to show in case you’re asked 😎

Find out more here - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rates-and-allowances-travel-mileage-and-fuel-allowances/travel-mileage-and-fuel-rates-and-allowances

I recently attended a webinar thanks to regarding the 5% VAT rate. Thanks to their team for an informative webinar, touching on points I had not even thought of.

CPD is really important in our industry, not least as part of my MAAT compliance with AAT but also so we stay up to date with changes in accounting so we can pass this advice on to our clients.