We are often asked to explain if the professional fees you pay, associated with a property transaction, are a tax allowable deduction. The straight-forward answer is yes, they are, but it is necessary to consider the reason for which a property is purchased to determine which taxes are reduced by such payments. Simplistically, if you…
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Warren Ran for Reach!
As promised last month, Warren ran the Lisburn 10K on 19th June. He managed to finish it, admittedly in a very modest time of 59 minutes 9 seconds, but the most important thing is that he raised £700.00 for his chosen charity Reach NI (https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Warren-McCleary ) Thank you to all of you who contributed, your generosity…
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Warren is Running his first ever 10K for Reach
As part of my plan to move from obese couch potato (2 years ago), through fat walker (1 Year ago), through fat jogger (6 months ago) to overweight runner (now, I think!), I have been challenged by one of the team at McCleary & Company to run the Lisburn 10K. Not wanting to shirk a…
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HMRC Scams Target Local Business
'Hi Warren We wanted to make you aware of a new ‘HMRC’ scam that threatens customers with fines for late payments. The scam in question has recently affected one of our own customers, who was duped into making a false payment. The customer received a call from ‘HMRC’ approximately a week after making a…
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