Update Log

2026

August 2026 (consolidation pass)

• Compliance, planning and decision-support release: Added the UK Small Business Tax & Compliance Calendar, First Employee Cost Calculator, VAT Flat Rate Scheme tool, CIS guide and deduction estimator, Dividend Paperwork Toolkit and 13-week Cash Flow Stress Test. New direct-download records cover CIS, dividend paperwork, mileage, hiring costs and account switching.
• Commercial decision journeys: Added transparent Tide and Capital on Tap fit guides with verified-source dates, poor-fit guidance, adjacent disclosure and consent-safe non-personal offer interaction events. The site now documents a measurement specification and an original research framework before any unsupported benchmark or conversion claim is published.
• Verified offer pages: Dedicated REFER200 referral-code page and SETTINGUP promo-code page launched with explicit “Verified Partner Code” labels, date-stamped verification, and accessible copy-code controls.
• Tide FSCS consistency: Updated Tide review and free business accounts comparison to correctly distinguish ClearBank-powered Tide accounts (FSCS protected up to £120,000) from e-money safeguarding arrangements.
• 2026/27 financial data: Corrected dividend rates, NI thresholds, Section 455 rate, Companies House fees, and Class 4 NI rates across all guides and calculators.
• Class 4 NI and Class 2 corrections: Updated side-hustle guide from 8% to the current 6%/2% Class 4 structure; corrected Class 2 wording in the sole trader vs limited company guide to reflect that mandatory Class 2 was removed from April 2024.
• Making Tax Digital: Updated Tax & Bookkeeping hub from “coming soon” to “now live” reflecting the 6 April 2026 start for qualifying taxpayers above £50,000. Added Making Tax Digital hub and MTD eligibility checker.
• New authority hubs: Tax & Bookkeeping, Cash Flow & Funding, Companies House ID Verification 2026.
• New calculators: Director Salary & Dividend, Sole Trader Tax, Payments on Account, Tax Reserve, Cash Runway, Late Payment Interest, Capital on Tap Rewards.
• Editorial policies: Expanded About, Editorial Policy (now includes named authorship, review-frequency hierarchy, AI disclosure, and affiliate policy), Corrections Policy. Added How We Review Financial Products methodology page.
• Navigation: Added Tax & Bookkeeping and Cash Flow to the main header navigation. Rebuilt the human sitemap and XML sitemap from a central canonical-route registry.
• Named-author rollout: Deployed topic-based named-author attribution across all article pages.
• Official source panels: Added primary-source panels to Tide review, Capital on Tap review, and both offer pages.
• Audit-led freshness and structured data: Standardised publication, tax-figure, product, offer and code-verification labels; added a metadata freshness guard; converted canonical and Open Graph URLs to the canonical production host; removed the unsupported site-search markup; and use WebApplication schema for genuine interactive tools.
• Tax and product accuracy: Centralised additional payroll, mileage and VAT figures; replaced universal director-pay wording with scenario-based guidance; refreshed current mileage examples; and aligned Capital on Tap and Tide wording with dated provider information.
• New planning tools: Added the Company Profit & Extraction Modeller, MTD Deadline Planner, and IR35 Working Practices Checklist. The VAT registration tool now calculates from 12 editable monthly turnover figures.
• Discoverability, accessibility and delivery: Refreshedllms.txt, expanded the human and XML sitemaps, added intent-based internal preloading, configured edge caching for public HTML on deployment, improved link and status contrast, and added an accessible email-address label. Final checks covered all sitemap URLs and mobile through desktop viewports.
• Tool calculation review: Independently rechecked the Company Profit & Extraction Modeller and MTD Deadline Planneragainst current HMRC guidance. The extraction model now applies a valid unused Employment Allowance before estimating Corporation Tax, and the MTD planner now tests the three exact Self Assessment return years HMRC uses for the 2026–2028 cohorts.
• Remaining financial-tool audit: Added boundary-case regression coverage and corrected the late-payment, payments-on-account, VAT, MTD eligibility and Capital on Tap rewards tools. The audit also enforces whole associated-company counts, visible reserve limits and non-negative invoice quantities, rates and VAT inputs.

May 2026

• New calculators: Corporation Tax, Dividend Tax, VAT registration threshold checker.
• New software guides: Xero vs FreeAgent vs QuickBooks, Best bookkeeping software for sole traders.
• New accountant series: How to find an accountant and Working with your accountant — checklist.
• Sticky mobile CTAs added to hub pages.
• Editorial team page now includes named editor portraits.
• Analytics: site now supports Plausible and GA4 via environment variables; outbound CTA clicks and downloads are tracked.

April 2026

• Long-form expansion: every cluster guide expanded to ~1,500 prose words with HMRC-rule depth, common mistakes and business-stage adaptations.
• Structured data: JSON-LD Article, FAQPage and BreadcrumbList auto-emitted across every article.
• Internal linking: every article now links to at least three siblings and back to its hub.
• OG images: editorial social-share images added for every hub.

March 2026

• Hubs filled out: Start a Business, Banking, Invoicing, Expenses, Credit Cards, Templates & Tools, Business Type Guides — all live with 5+ cluster pages each.
• Free tools: invoice generator, expense tracker, cashflow forecast, business purchase checklist, monthly finance review.
• Trust pages: editorial policy, affiliate disclosure, corrections policy, financial disclaimer, privacy, cookies, terms.

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