Purple Bookkeeping

02/06/2026

🖌️ Self Assessment: early filing helps clients plan without paying early. HMRC is encouraging anyone who needs to complete a Self Assessment tax return for the 2025 to 2026 tax year to file early, rather than waiting until the 31 January 2027 online filing deadline.

This is a useful message for members to share with self-employed clients, landlords and individuals with untaxed income. Filing early does not mean paying early. The payment deadline remains 31 January 2027, but early filing gives clients more time to understand what they owe, plan their cash flow and avoid the pressure that often builds close to the January deadline.

👉 HMRC has said that more than 290,000 people submitted their 2025 to 2026 Self Assessment tax return in the first week of the financial year. Members may wish to use this as a simple behavioural prompt when speaking to clients. The earlier a return is prepared, the easier it is to deal with missing records, queries and payment planning.

📍 Read full details from HMRC here - https://www.iab.org.uk/blog/hmrc-tax-updates-for-iab-members/

01/06/2026

Who is going to help the unsupported business owners who are mandated to Making Tax Digital for Income Tax in April 2027 and April 2028?
I've heard lots of Accountants just won't have the time to move from working with their clients at year end to quarterly or even monthly.
It's time to get your separate bsnk account and software choices made as soon as possible and get the support now rather than panicking when you have no choice in the relevant April when professionals will be busy with their current clients.
If you want to know more please check out my website

Drowning in paperwork? Don't know where to start? Let me help you get organised. Local & trustworthy Bookkeeping in Calne, Devizes, Chippenham

30/05/2026

Top 5 errors I see from sole traders doing their own bookkeeping

Error 1: Classifying the money they take from the business as Wages
Result: Business expenses too high meaning not enough tax paid

Error 2: Not entering the full amount of sales when card payment fees have been taken out before deposit in bank
Result: Business income too low and VAT threshold registration delayed incorrectly

Error 3: Classifying moving money from one bank account to another as an Expense when it should be a Transfer
Result: Business expenses too high meaning not enough tax paid

Error 4: Not adding any expenses paid from a personal bank account or cash
Result: Business expenses too low meaning too much tax paid

Error 5: Not adding their Use of Home office expenses
Result: Business expenses too low meaning tax paid too high

If you are making any or all of these errors book some training with Purple Bookkeeping and I can show you the correct entries to use.

Starting from £60 for 2 hours in person training

Drowning in paperwork? Don't know where to start? Let me help you get organised. Local & trustworthy Bookkeeping in Calne, Devizes, Chippenham

27/05/2026

How can you get support with Making Tax Digital For Income Tax?

DIY Support Package
£10 per month subscription via Direct Debit

For those of you who are planning to DIY your Making Tax Digital, quarterly calculations and submissions to HMRC

- Email support during office hours

- Quarterly submission checks (using your Profit and Loss Report)
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Set-up Package
£20 one off

- Support to set up Making Tax Digital on HMRC for your business

- Suggestions for approved HMRC software which will meet you needs - either cloud software or bridging spreadsheet

- Email support during office hours for the first submission

22/05/2026

Remembering today why I love my job. Been to a landlord client this morning in Corsham and caught up with how he has been doing and his plans for the coming year. Exciting times.
Now I'm sitting in Methuen Arms with a cappacino and pan au choc watching a full day webinar on making tax digital for Income tax with other bookkeepers and accountants.
Looking forward to starting a xero clean up for new clients who I met yesterday. They have been let down by their accountant who submitted year end accounts and self assessments without checking everything was reconciled to bank statements. She told me she will sleep better now I am supporting her.
Once everything is cleaned up I will be doing some xero training with her and a support package until she feels completely confident.

21/05/2026

Finally mileage rates per mile increase from April 2026

20/05/2026

20/05/2026

We are here to help local businesses get seen, connect and grow.

What we do:
• Local Market
• Networking events
• The Showroom pop-up space
• Business support and signposting
• Business Fair
• Clubs and community events
• Online directory (in development)
• Local event promotion

If you run a business in or near Calne, you are welcome. Message us to get involved.

20/05/2026

One of the biggest shifts I create for clients is not just more content. It is clearer thinking.

A good example of that was a soft tissue client who originally thought their best keywords were things like full body massage, pregnancy massage, and hot stone massage.

But most people were not searching for a soft tissue therapist. They were searching for the problem they wanted solved.

So we shifted the language towards things like back pain, migraines and headaches, sports injury, and stiff shoulder.

That changed the way the business showed up, and it changed how the offer connected to potential clients.

That is the difference between simply doing marketing tasks and thinking strategically about how people actually search, choose, and enquire.

This is the kind of work I love most. Not more noise. Better direction.

If your marketing feels busy but not effective, it may be time to look at the message first.