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Every article carries its tax year and review date, links to official GOV.UK sources, and says plainly when something is general guidance rather than advice.
UK tax & savings
Plain-English guides to tax, reliefs and Making Tax Digital.
Working from home: flat rate or a share of your actual bills?
Flat rate or a share of household bills? How self-employed people claim working-from-home expenses, with both methods explained and compared honestly.
11 Jul 2026 · 4 min
The £1,000 trading allowance, explained properly
How the £1,000 trading allowance works, when it genuinely saves you tax, when claiming actual expenses beats it, and the traps around gross income.
11 Jul 2026 · 4 min
Sole trader or limited company in 2026/27: an honest comparison
Sole trader or limited company in 2026/27? An honest comparison of admin, liability and tax dynamics — and how to tell which structure fits your business.
11 Jul 2026 · 4 min
The Self Assessment checklist: records, deadlines and payments on account
A practical Self Assessment checklist: which records to gather, the deadlines that matter including 31 January, and payments on account in plain English.
11 Jul 2026 · 4 min
Your first employee: payroll, RTI and pensions without the panic
Taking on your first employee: registering as an employer, running payroll under RTI, payslips, and pension auto-enrolment — explained step by step.
11 Jul 2026 · 4 min
Mileage rate or actual vehicle costs: which should you claim?
Simplified mileage rates or actual vehicle costs? Who can use each method, how to run a fair comparison, and the traps that catch UK sole traders.
11 Jul 2026 · 4 min
Technical AI accountancy
How controlled AI bookkeeping actually works — for the technically curious.
Prompt Injection and Financial Data: Documents Are Not Instructions
Why we treat invoices, emails and statements as untrusted input, and how validation plus human approval stops injected instructions reaching your ledger.
11 Jul 2026 · 4 min
Why Plain-Text Double-Entry Ledgers Suit AI and Audit
Why a plain-text double-entry ledger is the right substrate for AI bookkeeping: diffable changes, human-readable entries and deterministic validation.
11 Jul 2026 · 4 min
What Human-in-the-Loop Actually Means in Bookkeeping
What human-in-the-loop bookkeeping means in practice: AI drafts entries, AgentLedger validates them, and a named person approves every posting.
11 Jul 2026 · 4 min
How AgentLedger Validates: Double-Entry Invariants as a Safety Property
How AgentLedger enforces double-entry invariants — balanced postings, known accounts, sane dates — and why it rejects bad drafts instead of repairing them.
11 Jul 2026 · 4 min
Evaluating AI Bookkeeping Software: A Buyer's Checklist
A practical checklist for judging AI bookkeeping software: validation layers, human accountability, audit trails, access controls, exports and honest claims.
11 Jul 2026 · 5 min
Duplicate Detection by Design: Three Layers and a Human Decision
Inside our three-layer duplicate detection — file hash, draft-level checks and invoice content hash — and why suspected duplicates always wait for a person.
11 Jul 2026 · 4 min
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