Why is the UK tax year different?

All Julian calendar years started at the spring equinox and easter time - 25th March. One of the reasons Easter is still such a big holiday in the Orthodox World, the start of a ‘new year’.

ProACT Sam introduces the ProACT 2021 Desk Calendar.

Available free to all our Retained Clients and subscribers.

After a difficult year we could look forward to be cheerful in 2021, to things we desire and want.

ProACT Sam Orgill Highlights the steps Expats should consider taking to secure their future Living and Working Abroad.

Have you ever tried to agree a sabbatical from work or school, to find yourself embroiled in a negotiation and conditions? That you have to use holiday pay, or forgo pay, that you must evidence the reasons for the absence? 

Or have you ever tried to change your working hours, gain some flexibility, to have conditions applied to your reasonable request made with best intention?

ProACT Sam says that the apparent breakthrough in withdrawal treaty negotiations can give Expats extra confidence, but that we already had certainties of the changes ahead for Expat business and individuals.

After the Brexit vote the UK GBP v EURO fell from as high as Euro 1.30 to GBP £1.00 to around Euro 1.11

As with many things in Brexit we hear constant reports of currency falling or rising. 

As our report showed last year , for all the ups and down, Pound Sterling as a currency has been around 1.11 for the last two years.  

So this weekends news that after all the politicking , all the PR from vested interests, all the lobbying , a withdrawal treaty is suddenly agreed between the EU and UK negotiators, has an immediate impact on currency.

Straight away we see this happening, a jump in the EURO:GBP Rate to Euro1.13 to £1.00. No surprise.

The UK Prime Minister, Theresa May, announced in a speech on 25/9/18 in New York that the UK will be the lowest Corporate Tax Rate G20 Country after EU Brexit as an attraction to overseas companies and expats looking to establish a UK business base.

This statement tells us 2 things.

ProACT Sam looks at what it takes, and the pitfalls of setting up business in an EU country after Brexit.  In this article we examine from the perspective of an overseas contractor or a business looking to operate overseas.

As temperatures rise, and ill feeling spreads, ProACT Sam examines the State we are in with EU Brexit and Healthcare for Expats Living and Working Abroad.

Have you ever found yourself stuck in a rut?

Do you find another month, year gone by without progress? 

Do you wonder why that is, or accept that day to day life is hard?

Creating new habits is hard.  You start a new job, a new relationship, relocate abroad or have a baby and bam your world changes!! Your world is in turmoil as you struggle to adapt and cope.

What is going on ? 

ProACT Sam considers the mpact for Expats of no withdrawal treaty as Brexit Negotiations Heat Up this Summer.

As temperatures rise, and ill feeling spreads, ProACT Sam examines the State we are in with EU Brexit and Healthcare for Expats Living and Working Abroad.