Archive for February 2026

Online selling can scale quickly. That’s good for revenue, but it puts pressure on records, VAT decisions and how you report to HMRC. It also changes how your transactions “look” on paper. Instead of one sales ledger and one bank account, you often have several moving parts at once – a storefront or marketplace, a…

Paying yourself from your business sounds simple until you start weighing up salary, dividends and pensions, and how each one affects your take-home pay. The “best” answer also shifts depending on profits, cashflow and what else is going on at home, for example, child benefit, student loans or whether you are close to the higher-rate…