A New Dawn

It may be because I attended a talk by an NLP practitioner a few days ago, but I thought I would try and be more upbeat in what is written here.

So isn't it exciting? Alistair Darling is due to give his pre-budget speech at lunch time on 9 December. There is a general election coming up and Nick Clegg is looking forward to leading the country.

So there will be lots of change coming up over the next few months to take my mind off the 31 January deadline for filing personal tax returns and indeed for some time to come.

Are we going to see VAT rise after the election? What about Capital Gains Tax at an all-time low rate (if you ignore the 10% rate that used to apply to people selling their businesses) - is that going to change again and perhaps increase to 40% or even 50%?

VAT is already up for an overhaul in the new year, with new rules about reporting business done with other EU countries coming in on 1 January and a requirement for lots of businesses to file their returns online from April 2010.

There are going to be lots of opportunities to review and perhaps come up with a better way of doing things.

So here's to the New Year.