The Night Before Tax-mas… (And HMRC Is Coming to Town) Cue the music. Dim the lights. It’s April 5th. And somewhere, across the land, performers, freelancers and self-employed souls are settling down for the night… …dreaming not of sugar plums… …but spreadsheets. Because tomorrow — April 6th — is the big one.
HMRC’s Fawlty Filing Farce has too many doors for Limited Companies I promise this isn’t an April Fool’s. Although it has all the hallmarks of a classic farce. Doors opening. Doors closing. People dashing in one way, missing each other by seconds, and reappearing somewhere else entirely. A bit like an episode
Unless you’ve got a TARDIS, you can’t dep yourself out of VAT I know. I’ve been quiet. January happened. Self Assessment season has a habit of swallowing time, inboxes and any remaining grip on reality, and before you know it, weeks have passed and you haven’t written a blog post
Grab your popcorn – I watched the Budget so you don’t have to So yesterday at lunch, accompanied by a ham sarnie and a glass of something fizzy,* I settled down to watch the Budget. Which means you don’t have to. Unless you are NOT a performer. Why? Well, I
Halloween may be over, but the spellcasting continues. The pumpkins are gone, the broomsticks put away, yet everywhere I turn people are still peering into their crystal balls — not to commune with spirits, but to predict what the Chancellor might conjure up in his next Budget. Will income tax
Don’t believe EVERY headline you read (unless it’s from me) You know the old saying, “Don’t believe everything you read in the papers”? Well, last week the Daily Express gave us a perfect example — and it was enough to make this Singing Accountant hit a wrong note. They ran a piece on Making
If I had a pound for every time I’ve sung my feelings instead of submitting them, I’d still be a proud tax-paying self-employed opera singer … just with a slightly bigger wardrobe of sequins. So when I spotted this What’s On Stage article asking West End stars what they’d sing
As both an accountant and a former opera singer, I’m used to a life of contrasts. One foot in spreadsheets, the other in stilettos at The London Palladium. So when I saw the BBC Proms 2025 line-up – featuring everything from Verdi to video game soundtracks and yes, even a
It seems the West End isn’t the final frontier after all… In news that had us double-checking our calendars (and our gravity), it appears that a new force in theatre-land, “Outta This World Productions Ltd”, has announced plans to open the first-ever permanent theatre on the Moon by 2029. The venue, charmingly named The
It’s World Theatre Day, and whilst I am usually elbows-deep in tax returns and spreadsheets, my heart still beats in 4/4 time. As you may recall, before I transformed into my current role as “The Singing Accountant”, I was a performer. Opera no less darling. Which is why today’s not just a date
The spreadsheet has been built for the self employed performer to be able to capture their costs in an ordered fashion which will make it easier to complete the page in the self assessment tax return.
