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		<title>Do new IR35 tests reward failure?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Kelly (Managing Director)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been almost a week since HMRC published the IR35 business test questions and guidance which it will now use to identify which companies are most at risk of non-compliance and therefore most likely to be targeted for investigation.  To say that their publication has been controversial has to be the understatement of the year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why is Britain so far behind on the small business curve?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 13:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Kelly (Managing Director)</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[flexible workforce]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ClearSky Managing Director, Derek Kelly Over the weekend I read a fascinating study in the Harvard Business Review under the title ‘The Rise of the Supertemp’ and what struck me was how far behind the UK is in its attitude to professional freelancers, contractors and temporary workers. The report comes hot on the heels of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The importance of property for your small business</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 10:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Kelly (Managing Director)</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[property]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ClearSky Managing Director, Derek Kelly, gives his thoughts When starting out in business one of the first considerations is where to base yourself. Your first instinct may be to just set up your spare room as an office and go from there, but for a lot of small businesses, particularly those for which IR35 is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forget the pasty tax, this is a family affair</title>
		<link>http://www.clearskyaccounting.co.uk/forget-the-pasty-tax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Kelly (Managing Director)</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that ever since the Budget, the Government has stumbled from one row to another and the media is lapping it up. The granny tax could prove a costly mistake for the Government come the next election as it’s the older generation that actually bothers to go out and vote. Then we had the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is tax about elections or economics?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Kelly (Managing Director)</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tax issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporation tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who was it who is supposed to have remarked; “The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax”? I’ll give you the answer shortly and you might be surprised when you know it. In the meantime, here is another question. Ever since the Budget announcement at the end of March, do any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When is your business actually a business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Kelly (Managing Director)</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cash flow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IR35]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PAYE employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[your business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As you know we’ve been keeping an eye on developments from the IR35 forum for some months now, particularly the mooted ‘business’ tests that HMRC will be using to help decide whether or not a full IR35 investigation is warranted. We did expect the ‘business entity’ tests to be published later this month and then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new spin on something old</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Kelly (Managing Director)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who regularly follows our blogs will know we like ‘new’ here at ClearSky. In fact, our whole ethos when setting up ClearSky was we believed there was a ‘new’, better, no nonsense way of doing things when it came to accountancy services for small businesses, freelancers and contractors. Now, in true ClearSky fashion, we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ClearSky builds on product offering with CIS launch</title>
		<link>http://www.clearskyaccounting.co.uk/cis-launch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ClearSky Team</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CIS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.clearskyaccounting.co.uk/?p=3093</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ClearSky Accounting, the specialist contractor, freelancer and small business accountant, has launched a brand new range of services for Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) workers. ClearSky Accounting has nearly two decade’s worth of experience working with small businesses and self-employed construction workers can now take advantage of this with ClearSky CIS. Service packages include: 3 pricing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easy to digest or hard to stomach, how did you react to last week</title>
		<link>http://www.clearskyaccounting.co.uk/easy-to-digest-or-hard-to-stomach-how-did-you-react-to-last-week-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.clearskyaccounting.co.uk/easy-to-digest-or-hard-to-stomach-how-did-you-react-to-last-week-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 05:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Kelly (Managing Director)</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guides]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion & comment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I posted my initial reaction to the Budget shortly after the Chancellor sat down last week, and you can read my comments here. Clients of ClearSky will have received their in-depth Budget report last Thursday and we’ve now made this available to everyone else as a downloadable PDF. You can get your copy here. Having gone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My take on the 2012 Budget</title>
		<link>http://www.clearskyaccounting.co.uk/my-take-on-the-budget/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Kelly (Managing Director)</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ClearSky Managing Director, Derek Kelly, gives his thoughts “The Chancellor was in a bullish mood as the Budget announcement was fairly radical in comparison to recent years but I believe it was also well balanced. There are plenty of positives to take for contractors, freelancers and temps, as well as the staffing businesses that place [...]]]></description>
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