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Attention -  Accountants & Solicitors

CDP Corporate are looking for partners to act as Introducers who can share lucrative fees when clients utilise our specialists tax services.

SDLT - Stamp Duty Land Tax.

Our Stamp Duty Mitigation schemes eliminate total payment of the 4% rate payable on properties purchased, Min £500,000. The fee to produce a scheme is 40% of the savings + vat. Fantastic savings for the client and an attractive fee sharing opportunity for you.

Capital Allowance Tax Depreciation.

Our specialist service helps clients claim fortunes of previously un-identified allowances since the recent change in legislation. We need clients who own Commercial Buildings  with an original purchase value of £150k minimum.
They must be UK tax payers running a profitable business.

Our scheme requires the services of our RIC's Chartered Surveyors to carry out on site full surveys, detailed reports of findings plus confirmation of the HMRC approved allowance values. The report would then require full authorisation and approval of the clients own Accountants.

Please call Paul or James on 01625 590819 to discuss an association
or Email pc@cdpcorporate.co.uk
CDP Corporate - Recovery Solutions

ARE YOU PURCHASING RESIDENTIAL OR COMMERCIAL PROPERTY ?
DO YOU OWN COMMERCIAL PROPERTY  ?

CDP Corporate operate Stamp Duty Mitigation schemes on all property purchases over £500,000  

No Stamp Duty is payable, our tax scheme eliminates the 4% rate totally. The cost to take out a scheme is 40% of the saving + vat

Example - Property purchase say, £1000,000 @ 4% stamp duty £40,000
                      Tax scheme @ 40% of the saving totals £16,000 + vat £18,800
                       SAVINGS OF £21,200

CDP Corporate offer a Capital Allowance Depreciation scheme to all owners of Commercial Property with an original purchase price of £150,000 min
Since the change in legislation we can guarantee identifying a minimum of 25% of the property purchase value to write off against either corporation or personal tax ( if owned privately )

Call Paul or James on 01625 590819 to discuss your circumstances

Every organisation contains knowledge, but how well does your business handle it? Is there a single place of truth where everything that is needed resides - or do you lose information when someone leaves, is away on holiday or sick, or moves up to a higher position?

More to the point - do you KNOW what you’re losing?

You train people and then they leave - you can’t stop that happening, but how do you retain what they’ve learned?

You promote someone and they move into a different role - how much do they actually hand over to their replacement? Is that factored into their move?

People are unexpectedly away from work - perhaps from an accident or off sick, or have to take time off to look after a family member. Does the person who has to cover know where to look to find out what they do - and how?

In multinational or multi-site organisations, someone gets transferred from one place to another - does their knowledge go with them and leave a gap?

Every organisation needs to have a strategy to handle its knowledge risks. Not only to record systems and processes, but to store information on a wide variety of functions. Ideally, that system also needs to have the flexibility to grow with the organisation, and handle change and improvement too.

There is a cliche ‘Knowledge is power’; but that implies exclusivity of knowledge and in today’s world protecting your personal knowledge doesn’t help the organisation to function effectively - in fact, quite the reverse.

Today’s world is based on sharing openly for the benefit of your environment, whether that’s family, community or employer. Just look at the explosion of social media - all based on sharing information and knowledge.

How does your organisation stand up to the knowledge risks?

There are four steps to wisdom:

1. Acquiring data
2. Turning the data into information
3. Using the information to gain knowledge
4. Applying wisdom to the use of that knowledge.

The current health and safety legislation and guidance has an abundance of data - and some of it is presented as information, however, it’s confusing. There’s so much duplication as each new law repeats what’s gone before - with a few extra twists. It’s no wonder that organisations are confused, let alone the individual members of staff who have to apply them on a day-to-day basis.

Most employees only understand risk on a surface level - they’re told ‘do this’ and they do it (or, in some cases, don’t do it). Most of them don’t really think about it much, other than as a bit of a nuisance.

People are swamped with information, policy documents, safety regulations, warnings, manuals - who has the time to read it, let alone try to understand it or apply it intelligently?

When people are taught dynamic risk assessment all that changes. In order to assess a rapidly changing set of circumstances, they have to think! They have to understand what is happening and then make good quality decisions - in other words they are forced to apply wisdom before taking action.

If the skills of dynamic risk assessment were taught throughout your organisation from the top down, how much better would your operation function and how much more effective would you be?

Something Divine online luxury gift boutique aims to make your shopping experience smooth and simple with our luxury gift services. When your selection is made, we will give it our maximum attention. It will be carefully packaged and delivered first class to either yourself or your recipient.
If you choose to have your selection gift-wrapped, you will be given the choice of luxury gift wrap in 5 different colours, or glitter gift box in silver or gold. With either of these selections, you will have the option to enter a personalised message onto the gift tag, which will be handwritten. Simple, stylish.
Members with an account can also take advantage of our Never Forget Service. Simply enter your important dates into our website and we will send you an email reminder at a frequency of your choice. Effortless, individual.
At Something Divine, our luxury gifts are individually hand-selected from carefully chosen prestigious suppliers, combining luxury with style and quality. By selecting luxury gifts that are not easily available on the high street, you can shop with the confidence that your gift selection will be as individual and special as the person you are buying for.

When things go wrong but, it doesn’t actually result in an accident where someone gets injured, everyone heaves a sigh of relief and you hear phrases like ‘it was a near miss’ and ‘there was an incident’. Consider that a near miss is also a near hit – and an incident that is out of the ordinary and unplanned needs looking into – or it will almost certainly happen again – perhaps with a less fortunate outcome. So why are ‘incidents’ and ‘near misses’ often not investigated?

An accident is not simply a description of a situation where someone gets hurt. An effective organisation uses the tools of accident investigation as a business improvement tool.
1. To explore any unplanned occurrence – and find out why it happened and what could be done to prevent it happening again.
2. To investigate conditions that staff experience – such as back pain – to find out what activities are causing this or exacerbating it.
3. To discover the causes of industrial diseases – where people suffer from certain ailments that may be related to their working environment.
4. To reveal the root cause of injuries; for example, if someone injures their hand in machinery, the investigation may discover that they were not wearing their safety gloves – but, that wasn’t the cause of the accident. The root cause has everything to do with the process or the way in which the machinery is being used – everyone doesn’t get their hands trapped, even with gloves on, so something needs to change – maybe additional training in machine usage for the injured operator or the addition of safety guards on the machine.

Seeing incidents that don’t cause injury as ‘a lucky break’ is simply short-sightedness – and missing an opportunity to make your organisation more efficient, more effective and more profitable.

This is an unashamedly ‘grumpy old man’ item - but it needs to be aired.

Local councils seem to have their focus on unnecessary cotton wool, instead of practical action. There was a news item last summer was about the need for hanging baskets to be far enough above head height to ensure people don’t bang their heads on them.

I don’t know how much consideration they’ve given to the fact that most people have eyes at head height and tend to avoid anything coming at them around that level! We manage to avoid lamposts, pavement cafe tables, greengrocers displays, and men at work barriers blocking the pavement - ah, yes; and that’s another issue.

It’s common knowledge that severe weather damages road surfaces. It’s also common knowledge that, in the UK, there’s a reasonably good chance we’ll get snow and ice at some point (or several points) during the winter. So why is it that the local councils don’t plan ahead to ensure that, as soon as possible there are teams out filling in the ruts and potholes that have appeared and making the roads safe for us again?

It’s bad enough when you’re driving a car to hit a pothole; it rattles your teeth and can ruin your suspension (even if the garage repair people are rubbing their hands in glee). But what happens if you’re on a bicycle or motorbike? A pothole can cause a real accident, with injuries. What happens if you’re driving an open vehicle and the jolt dislodges something - and sends it flying into the path of another vehicle, or to hit a pedestrian?
Of course, things should be secured, but that doesn’t mean they can’t work loose with enough jolting and lurching.

When will the councils understand that planned preventative maintenance (PPN) - and contingency planning - would be far more useful than getting excited about flower pots that most of us can easily avoid?

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