Value added tax

Xero starts showcasing practitioners

March 29, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Gary Turner, Xero‘s UK MD has been out and about pointing his camera at Xero practice users. His first two video shoots highlight some of the benefits that practitioners are seeing from using a saas solution e.g. 10-20% reduction in time spent on routine client work Day-to-day data entry element is significantly eased Avoiding conversion [...]

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More Xero goodness

December 16, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Having given Xero a bit of a swipe in my last post about the company it’s really good to see how, in the run up to the festive season, they’re aligning themselves closer and closer to users. December 15th – UK payroll update December 16th – Happy new VAT rate December 16th – Flat rate [...]

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Pre-Budget Report and VAT: the story that won't die

November 27, 2008 General

When I wrote about an admittedly narrow issue on how I see the impact of the reduction in VAT from 17.5% to 15% I could not have foreseen how that story would take on a life of its own. But elsewhere. Over at IT counts, I riffed the story with the added twist of noting [...]

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VAT: some late nights ahead for software vendors

November 25, 2008 General

Yesterday was a long day and as it came to a close, Chris from Pearl Software Skyped me: Busy week ahead with the VAT changes hey… After many years of stability, software vendors have 6 days to instantiate changes to VAT charges generated on invoices. The good news is that this seems to be the [...]

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