January is all about taxes, tax returns. HMRC's announcement that they will take returns over the phone but it has got them into trouble for some reason.

For those of you who know me I am not particularly biased one way or another politically, although running a business I suppose suggests I might be slightly more liberal than socialist. And let's face it everyone hates filling in their tax returns and has a certain amount of respect and / or fear for the tax man. (Who of us wouldn't like to avoid paying as much tax as we do if we thought we could a) get away with it and b) knew it wouldn't affect the public spending we actually rely quite a bit on?)

But what I do try to keep my eye on is what is going on fiscally or politically that may affect people, my business and of course me personally.

Being highly alert to tax topics at this time of year I came across this article "Experts deride government advice to submit tax returns via telephone"

.... I don't get the controversy? For once the HMRC is actually trying to be practical, but is being met with derision. 

January is always a good time of year to plan out what goals you want to achieve...

New Year is a time of reflection... January is a time for planning. Have you figured out what goals you would like to achieve? Have you figured out what goals you will or need to achieve?

Irrespective of whether you have your 2016 goals laid out yet (personally and professionally) I'm sure you'll find value in spending 5-10 minutes reading this blog, my business coach mentors - it also gives you a couple helpful tools in there including a downloadable template and an online questionnaire

The System to Achieve Your Goals in 2016

E-myth is a great source of free and paid for tools, which is why I chose to become a certified E-Myth Business Coach, if nothing else check out my review of the book that started it all... 

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