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CRC

Name: CRC
Address: The Old Library, 8 Laing Street, Kirkwall, KW151NW, GB
Telephone: +441856881173

Financial control & strategic direction. Helping ambitious SME’s find a clear path forward.

10/03/2026

Phone Lines Temporarily Down

Our phone lines are currently unavailable while we move over to a new phone system.

Please bear with us while we get everything set up. In the meantime, if you need to get in touch, please email us at [email protected] and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.

Thank you for your patience and understanding!

Team CRC

06/03/2026

Last week was a busy and brilliant one at CRC!

Not only did we welcome a new start to the team, but we also had some of our remote team up in Orkney. It was fantastic to have everyone together in the same place!

We made the most of it with a team meal at the Kirkwall Hotel followed by some fun activities at Lanes, a great chance to catch up, have a laugh, and spend some time together outside of work.

27/02/2026

New team member! 🙌🏻

Delighted to welcome Rhys Dixon to the team this week, who joins CRC as a new Trainee Accountant.

Bringing lots of experience from other service based businesses, we’re really looking forward to helping Rhys progress through his accountancy qualification!

28/01/2026

Travel day ✈️

Although the majority of our team are based in Orkney, our clients are spread across Scotland.

Travel day today as we head to the central belt for some in person meetings.

Always nice to be in Sunny Edinburgh! 🌞

23/01/2026

Grin and bear it…

6 hours of filming. A whole bank of lovely footage.

But no audio. Not even on a single clip…. 😑😑😑

You can check and check again, but sometimes stuff just doesn’t go as planned!

Take 2 incoming!

22/01/2026

Pension contributions - still one of the most tax efficient vehicles around!

Despite the upcoming changes to pensions for IHT, they are still extremely tax efficient ways to invest any extra cash you have sitting in your company.

With up to 25% corporation tax relief available, you can be saving up to a whopping £15,000 in tax each year!

Better still, the pension pot benefits from tax efficient growth whilst it’s invested.

Of course, you need to balance your company’s near term cashflow needs, with your personal long term tax-efficient financial planning.

You should only lock away money which isn’t needed by the company here and now.

But with a good accountant on your side, you’ll be able to plan where your money is best invested at any given time!

20/01/2026

What do you actually want?

From your business? And for your life outside the workplace?

Being in business, it’s easy to get lost in the day to day. Conflicting priorities, customer & team demands. Wearing many hats.

It’s easy to lose sight of why you started it all in the first place.

But how often do you actually take a step back and think about what you want from your business?

After all, your business is there to serve you.

We take a keen interest helping business owners get clear on what they truly want. Because once we all know this, we can get to work on helping ensure the business keeps on track - and delivers what it’s capable of!

16/01/2026

Is your business ACTUALLY profitable?

We don’t like taking accounts at face value. Instead, beneath the P&L, we want to understand the true health of businesses.

Sometimes, what can look profitable on paper, can in fact be a silent loss-maker.

Here are 3 simple ways you can health check your business:

1. Your own wage - is the business making enough money that it could pay you a market rate wage for ALL the hours you put in?

2. Asset base - is it generating enough profit to keep replenishing the ageing assets?

3. Return on investment (ROI) - if we were to look at your whole business value, is the profit it makes a decent ROI? Or would you be better selling up, and investing your money elsewhere?

Knowing the true position is just the starting point.

The next step is sorting out your business, to ensure you’re generating the returns it’s capable of!

15/01/2026

When £1m became £2.5m! 😎

From April 2026, the first £2.5m of your trading business can be exempt from Inheritance Tax.

This applies per taxpayer, and is transferrable between spouses on death - meaning you could have an exempt amount of £5m as a couple.

The government had previously announced a lower limit of just £1m per taxpayer. Potentially a huge cost, and operational disruption to many family businesses!

But thankfully - after much lobbying - they’ve backtracked on the bulk of that decision.

We take a keen focus on ensuring our clients maintain their ‘trading’ status, and keep this valuable relief on the table.

We want to minimise business disruption on death, and ensure the legacy you build is kept by those who matter to you - rather than disappearing back to the tax man!

14/01/2026

The hidden truth of the Scottish Budget… 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Headline figures might state that most taxpayers would be better off in Scotland. But in reality, the Scottish tax system is still much more expensive than the rest of the UK.

This latest Scottish Budget hasn’t made it any easier for Scottish businesses to attract and retain talent - meaning they’re going to have to get smart about how they incentivise their team!

If your business wants to discuss the options available to you, feel free to get in touch!

13/01/2026

Feeling the pinch from your Payments On Account?

It’s tax deadline month, and lots of business owners might be feeling the impact of HMRC’s payment on account system.

To help with this, we always recommend budgeting your tax liability throughout the year, and setting the HMRC portion aside.

This helps you know what money is yours (and yours to keep), and what money is simply being held on behalf of HMRC. Most importantly, it saves any nasty surprises in January & July!

So even if your 2024/25 tax liability has caught you by surprise - let’s make 2026 the year where you get back on top of your cashflow!

31/12/2025

The Ba’ barricades are up to protect our beautiful old library!

Now that we’re based on Laing Street in Kirkwall, this has become part of our yearly preparations for Christmas and New Year’s Day - a sure sign the Ba’ is nearly here.

If you know, you know… and if you don’t, head over to our blog to find out more 👇
https://crc.business/news/the-ba-barricades-are-up

And this year we even shared Ba’ sweets with our clients - it’s all part of the festive season at CRC 🎄🍬

Address

The Old Library, 8 Laing Street
Kirkwall
KW151NW

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

+441856881173

Website

http://crc.business/

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During my 12 years in the profession, I quickly realised that I had a desire to find the most efficient solution to a task.

I relished the opportunity to investigate the details behind a process, see what inefficiencies were lurking beneath, and formulate a plan which ‘strips out the fat’ - whether that ‘fat’ is in the form of wasted time, preventable taxation, or something else.

I still gain a huge sense of internal satisfaction from creating solutions which make a tangible difference to my life, or indeed the lives of my clients.

Now, in my own firm, I want to bring this sense of satisfaction to as many people as possible. I mean, wouldn’t it be great if we could all get our jobs done quicker, better, and with as little stress as possible?

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