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Plain-English guides for people who run construction companies. New articles every few weeks, and a monthly email if you'd like it.
How to reclaim CIS suffered every month instead of once a year
A limited-company subcontractor can set CIS suffered against PAYE every month through the EPS. Here's exactly how, what you need, and what it's worth.
The domestic reverse charge for construction: the complete guide for contractors and subcontractors
When the VAT reverse charge applies, when it doesn't, what the invoice has to say, and the cash flow effect. With a decision checklist and worked examples.
Retentions: how to track, chase and recover every pound held from you
Retentions are a loan to your customer. Here's how to build a retention ledger, when to invoice each release, what to do when they're overdue, and what to ask for on the next tender.
Job costing for construction companies: how to see what every job is making, every month
Company-level margin hides the losing job. Here's how to set up job costing so every cost lands on the right contract and margin by job is visible monthly, not at year-end.
The 13-week cash flow forecast: how construction companies stop running out of cash in month three
How to build a 13-week cash forecast from your contracts' real payment dates, find the low point before it arrives, and test what happens when your biggest receipt is late.
Is your labour-only subcontractor actually an employee? The status tests, the risk, and what to do about it
CIS compliance doesn't settle employment status. HMRC's tests, the factors that decide it, what an enquiry costs, and how to review your supply chain and document it.
Capital allowances on plant, vans and hire purchase: what construction companies miss
Full expensing, the annual investment allowance, hire purchase and what qualifies. How contractors lose five-figure sums by never claiming, and how to check.
Why your construction accounts say profit but the bank says otherwise
The four ways standard bookkeeping misreads a construction business: applications booked as sales, retentions as debtors, WIP ignored, costs not matched to jobs. And what a certified basis fixes.
How much should a construction company pay its accountant? Fees explained, with real numbers
What accountants charge UK construction companies between £1m and £15m, what drives the fee, what should be included, and when the cheapest option costs the most.
CIS gross payment status: how to get it, what it's worth, and how not to lose it
The turnover, business and compliance tests for CIS gross payment status, what changes when you have it, the annual review, and the compliance failures that cost it.
You're probably owed CIS you haven't reclaimed
How limited-company subcontractors set CIS suffered against PAYE, and why so many wait until year-end.
Reverse charge VAT: who it applies to and who it doesn't
A decision guide for contractors and subcontractors, with the common mistakes we see on invoices.
Retentions are a loan to your customer. Manage them like one.
Why retention tracking is the single biggest cash lever for most contractors.
Is your labour-only subcontractor actually an employee?
The tests HMRC applies, what happens if you get it wrong, and how to review your supply chain.
Buying plant before year-end: what the tax relief is actually worth
Full expensing, annual investment allowance and hire purchase, in numbers.
Why your accounts say profit but your bank says otherwise
The four things standard bookkeeping gets wrong for construction, and what job costing fixes.
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