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Director Promotions January 2025
Director Promotions January 2025

As of 1st January 2025, the following staff members have been promoted to Directors.Jenny Brown Jenny Brown has been promoted from Senior Tax Manager to Director of Private Client Services. Jenny started her career at HM Revenue and Customs before moving into...

Hawsons Celebrates 170 years
Hawsons Celebrates 170 years

Hawsons Celebrates 170 years On 12th December 2024, we celebrated our 170th Anniversary. Founded on the same date in 1854 by John Hewett and Alfred Allot, Hawsons has grown to become one of the longest-standing independent firms of Chartered Accountants in the UK....

CTW Hardfacing Management Buyout – Case Study
CTW Hardfacing Management Buyout – Case Study

A management buyout (“MBO”) has been completed at CTW Hardfacing. Based in Sheffield and established in 1972, CTW Hardfacing provides long term wear resistant solutions to a wide range of industries, including those in the power generation, steel production, oil and...

Autumn Budget 2024 Summary
Autumn Budget 2024 Summary

Autumn Budget 2024 SummaryChancellor Rachel Reeves delivered her Budget on Wednesday 30 October 2024. She pledged to ‘invest, invest, invest’ to drive growth and ‘restore economic stability’. Billions in tax rises Ms Reeves said the Budget will raise £40 billion in...

Autumn Budget 2024 – Key Tax Announcements
Autumn Budget 2024 – Key Tax Announcements

Today, Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced her 2024 Spring Budget where she summarised the UK economic performance and announced her proposals for tax. In this budget, the chancellor announced that she will raise taxes by £40bn to increase government funding. In this...

HLB Survey of Business Leaders
HLB Survey of Business Leaders

Hawsons is a proud member of HLB International, a global network of independent advisory and accounting firms.  Being part of HLB gives Hawsons access to expertise across 157 countries globally. Therefore, when required we have the capability to assist our clients...

Master Cutler Challenge 2024
Master Cutler Challenge 2024

After successfully participating in the Master Cutler Challenge in 2022 and 2023, Hawsons assembled a team of staff to take on the challenge in 2024. This year, the chosen charity was the Sheffield Cathedral Schools Singing Programme. To raise money for this fantastic...

Sole trader vs self employed explained
Sole trader vs self employed explained

Sole trader vs self employed Working for yourself can be an appealing prospect as it provides you the opportunity to be in control of your own working life and personal finances. If you are considering working for yourself you will need to consider whether you want to...

Hawsons advise on Spawforths move to Employee Ownership

Hawsons Corporate Finance had the pleasure of supporting Spawforths, a masterplanning and architectural consultancy based in Wakefield during their transition into employee ownership. The Wakefield-based company works on an array of development projects, spanning from...

Date announced for 2024 Autumn Budget
Date announced for 2024 Autumn Budget

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced that she will deliver her Autumn Budget on Wednesday 30th October. This will be Rachel Reeves’ first Budget as Chancellor. It should also provide an insight into what direction the new Labour government will take on tax policy....