SINCE 1997, MERIDIAN HAS BEEN PROVIDING EXPERT TAXATION AND ACCOUNTING ADVICE AND SERVICES TO A LARGE CLIENT BASE, SPECIALISING IN MARINERS, NON RESIDENTS AND UK COMPANIES.

Headed by Jane Cochrane, Chartered Accountant and member of the Tax Faculty of the ICAEW, we are a hard-working, enthusiastic team of professionals committed to helping our clients with all aspects of their affairs. Jane trained with Ernst and Young in London, holding senior positions there, and at KPMG before setting up her own Chartered Accountants practice in October 1998. She is ably assisted by Nick Watts (MAAT), Reina Singh (ACCA) and Samantha Bennie (ACA). After many years of working for Meridian, Tina Scudder has retired. We wish her a very happy retirement.

Latest Tax News

Autumn Statement 2022

Recently the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP, made his Autumn Statement 2022 speech. Please see below a summary of the key points and please do not hes...

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Extending Making Tax Digital for VAT to all VAT registered businesses from 1 April 2022

The Finance Bill 2021 announced that HMRC will extend the scope of Making Tax Digital for VAT to include all VAT registered businesses (including those voluntarily registered) w...

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Super-Deduction and 50% First Year Capital Allowances

Between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2023, companies investing in qualifying new plant and machinery will be able to benefit from generous new first year Capital Allowances. Und...

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Making Tax Digital (MTD)

Since April 2019, government regulations mean that self employed people and business owners, including rental property businesses, wh...

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Cryptocurrencies/ Cryptoassets

HMRC sees cryptocurrencies, not as a currency, but as investment assets and so transactions are subject to Capital Gains Tax. You might need to pay Capital Gains Tax when you...

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Reporting and Paying CGT within 60 days

From 6th April 2020, anyone selling a property in the UK may have to complete an online report to HMRC and pay any Capital Gains Tax which is due, within 60 days of the date of ...

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Off Payroll Working (IR35) Rules from 6th April 2021

The Off Payroll Working rules exist to cover situations where clients are effectively treating contractors as employees, but choose to utilise their work via their company, in o...

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Disguised Remuneration

You may have heard of certain schemes where income payments are described as 'loans' or 'advances' thereby deferring or even avoiding tax on these payments. HMRC’s view is th...

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Fraud Alert!

HMRC never send notifications of a tax repayment or ask you to disclose personal or payment information by email. If you receive any emails which claim to be from HMRC they are likely to be a scam and should be taken with caution!

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

You will all have heard of GDPR as your mail box will be full of emails asking for consent to store and use your data. Meridian has always taken the security of clients’ data very seriously and are compliant in full with this regulation. One of the tenets of the regulation is that we publish our full Privacy Policy. This is available here: https://www.meridiantax.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Privacy-Policy.pdf