Paul Coombes discussed the associated employment tax issues to ensure that you don’t mistakenly make termination payments taxable and NICable in full where some basic planning could avoid such an effect.

The presentation gave a clear understanding of how complex an area this is, and the likely risk of action from former employees or HMRC should you get this wrong!

Tax mitigation and risk profiling

John Crawford outlined HMRC’s new approach to tax compliance and risk management. 

He highlighted a range of ideas to mitigate your exposure to tax, interest and penalties and even enable you to reclaim some of the tax you have already paid!

Reward and remuneration planning

Geoff Bond considered how businesses can meet the needs and aspirations of the employees that will be retained and who will be relied upon to deliver the future growth of the business.  

Legal Update

Izaz Ali outlined e-commerce, data protection and website compliance and security issues that may have been overlooked during the recent downturn.

Izaz highlighted the steps you need to take to ensure that your e-commerce operation is legally sound and protects your business. 

Ben Evans covered protecting your brand and trade mark issues that will be of increasing importance as the economy moves out of recession. 

Corporate and business tax update 

Azad Majid highlighted some of the key corporate and business tax changes that have been brought out to help businesses to manage costs during the recession.

Azad also considered some simple and effective cash and tax saving measures for businesses to consider.