Almost 600 local small firms have been helped to access the Government’s Furlough Scheme by local accountants, Ashmole & Co, resulting in 2,700 jobs being saved from redundancy. 

 

Claims made by Ashmole & Co to the Furlough Scheme, up to the end of October, resulted in £6.9million paid out to the 595 local companies who had to close or reduce their staff numbers due to the Covid19 pandemic. 

We are delighted to welcome an immensely experienced local Payroll Clerk to our Pembrokeshire Team. Our Payroll team has gone from strength to strength with Wendy Davies, from Pembroke, having recently joined as a Payroll Clerk covering our Tenby and Haverfordwest offices. 

Our Ammanford office is helping to support the young local mathematicians of the future by making a donation to Ysgol Llandybie Primary School to help with the purchase of the online maths resource for pupils called MyMaths. 

Latest news on the Wages Support Schemes, Self Employed Income Support Scheme (SEISS) and Grants available to businesses in Wales as of 22nd October 2020 

We would like to reassure our clients that we are classified as a key service provider and we will be accessible during the two week ‘firebreak’ lockdown starting at 6pm on Friday, 23 October 2020. 

Although the sign above the door has changed, visitors to the new Ashmole & Co office in Neath, will still be greeted by the same friendly faces that worked there under Stockham & Co Accountants. 

We are delighted to announce that Courtney Knight has started working for the accountancy firm in the new role as a Business Administrative Apprentice, based in the Haverfordwest office. 

If you sell a residential property that is not your home, the capital gains tax rules changed, with effect from April 2020. 

If you are self-employed (ie trading as a sole trader or as a partner in a partnership) you may be entitled to the second stage of the Self Employment Income Support Scheme. Please note that this must be claimed by 19 October 2020. It does not apply to company directors. 

The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has unveiled the government’s plan to protect jobs and support businesses over the coming months this afternoon. Central to the Chancellor’s plan is a new Job Support Scheme and an extension of the Self Employment Income Support Scheme.