Merry Christmas to all those hard working accountants and tax advisors.

Why was the maths book sad during tax season?

Because it had too many problems.

Why was the seafood restaurant being investigated by the IRS?

They were suspected of being a shell company in some fishy business.

How to stand out from your peers in your firm:⁠
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🔥 Take initiative (where appropriate)⁠
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🔥 Be positive & enthusiastic⁠
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🔥 Take an interest in the commercial aspects of your work

🔥 Bring your work in under budget⁠

🔥 Communicate with your team leader & colleagues.⁠

What else would you add?

Why was the accountant so excited that he completed a jigsaw puzzle in only 59 weeks? Because on the box it said 8-12 Years.

Which superhero pays no tax? Spiderman, all his income is net.

Occasionally HMRC can be amazing, this week they gave an incredibly long time to a client for a time to pay, the client had been suicidal due to the stress.

You know you are an accountant when you are watching the Netflix film “This Time Next Year” and you are trying to work out how a pie business can possibly be afloat when it has four staff, has premises in London and only makes 40 pies. #accountant #thistimenextyear

May not be relevant to accountants that have never done anything manually and rely on software 100%. What do you call a trial balance that doesn’t balance? A late night.

A lot of landlords are offloading properties before capital gains tax increases. However, I can see a lot of deals being stalled due to conveyancing not turned around in time.

It is interesting to interview the next crop of accountants. There is a lot of talk about work/ life balance, but when you ask them what does it mean to them, the answers aren’t very coherent.

Lots of clients worrying about CGT increases and considering whether dispose of their assets before the budget. Some clients bought buy to let’s as they didn’t trust pensions after the 90s pension crash, now worried that their rentals won’t cover their retirement.

So how long will it take HMRC to pick up my call today? Or will it just disconnect after I have patiently waited for ages?

I am shocked each day by the amount of con artist ‘tax advisors’ out there, and that lots of accountancy practices push unsound schemes, whilst taking a commission. In tax, if it is too good to be true, it generally is.

We were told that we were going to lose our jobs with the invention of the calculator, then spreadsheets, then cloud accounting. Latest is AI threatening to take all the accountancy jobs, however, if it is truly intelligent it will say ‘no thanks, I don’t want to be an accountant’.