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15Mar 2024 by Robley Baynes

Tax Planning For Business Profitability

In today's competitive business environment, tax planning goes beyond mere compliance; it becomes a strategic tool for enhancing profitability and ensuring sustainable growth. Effective tax planning is a vital component of financial management for business owners, influencing key decisions and shaping the path to growth and success. The Impact of Tax Planning on Business Decisions Tax planning is an essential component of maximizing business profitability. By strategically managing your business's tax obligations, you can effectively reduce tax liabilities and increase your bottom line. Here are some tax planning strategies that can help improve business profitability Maximizing Profitability By strategically managing your tax obligations, you can reduce your tax liabilities and increase your bottom line. This additional cash flow can be reinvested in your business to drive growth…

23Jan 2024 by Robley Baynes

Planning For The Upcoming Financial Year

Small Business Guides

There’s no escaping the fact that 2024 may just be a crucial and challenging year due to the previous activities in 2023. However, once you focus and create a financial plan for the upcoming year you should be able to deal with what 2024 has to offer. Yet, while there’s not much we can do to influence the global macroeconomic and geopolitical picture, there are plenty of ways to ensure our own finances are robust enough to deal with whatever the next 12 months bring. In this guide we’ve provided a couple of important tips to assist with the planning for your business for the year of 2024. Auditing An audit refers to the examination of the financial position of the business. It’s important to start with auditing the financial…

20Dec 2023 by Robley Baynes

FCCA Mikhail Baynes | Recognition Ceremony

Chartered Accountants

New FCCA Member | FCCA Mikhail Baynes 7th Dec, 2023Congratulations on achieving the esteemed status of FCCA (Fellow Chartered and CertifiedAccountant).Becoming an FCCA opens up a whole new realm of opportunities. It demonstrates your extensive experience, signifies a high level of expertise, steadfast dedication and your immense value, not only to the accounting profession, which has always been integral to economic development, but also to mentor and support aspiring and other ACCA students who are working towards completing the qualification. Your guidance and wisdom can truly make a difference in their paths toward membership, shaping the future of the accounting profession. Watch a clip from Tobago updates on this milestone: (3) Video | Facebook

20Dec 2023 by Robley Baynes

5 Tips To Simplify Payroll In 2024

Financial Management, Payroll, Tax Planning

Operating a small business often involves navigating a critical, yet time-consuming element such as payroll, especially when you have employees who expect to receive their paychecks on time. Payroll essentially determines how you and your staff get paid. In this guide we’ve demonstrated strategies that can simplify your overall payroll process in the new year to come. As a small business owner, you can streamline the efficiency of your payroll by using the following strategies we’ve provided below: Use of Direct Deposit/Online Banking Create a Payroll Calendar Distinguish how your employees would be paid Outsource a payroll professional Keep policies and procedures clear Use of Direct Bank/Online Banking The first tip to make payroll more efficient is to make use of Direct Bank Deposit. Direct Deposit allows small businesses to…

17Nov 2023 by Robley Baynes

A Guide To Taxation for a Sole Trader Business

Tax Planning

Small business owners, especially new business owners, usually have quite a bit on their shoulders to maintain. From management of staff, payroll, bookkeeping, marketing, and business operations it can be a task doing it on your own. However, one of the major things business owners need to consider is that their taxes must be up to date and in order. In this guide, we navigate sole trader taxes, deadlines, income tax returns, business profits, and all filing requirements to prepare small business owners, independent contractors, and self-employed individuals for the next tax year. When setting up a new business, it’s important to learn how to choose a business structure that’s right for you and determine how it will affect the specifics of your business’s taxes. Many small businesses usually levitate…