OEC, Riding Club Forthcoming Events in May at Oswestry Equestrian Centre:

The current tax year, 2017-18, is the last year we have to prepare for the advent of the new reporting system, Making Tax Digital for Business (MTDfB). Following the recent budget, it is now clear which businesses are going to be affected and when.

Local canal campaigners are celebrating a £70,000 award from The Inland Waterways Association to help rebuild Schoolhouse Bridge between Crickheath and Llanymynech. This is a major boost to restoring a two-mile length of the canal through to Llanymynech, and ultimately reconnecting Welshpool to the national canal network after more than 50 years.

The personal tax allowance will increase to £11,500 and the higher rate threshold will rise to £45,000.
The annual ISA limit will increase to £20,000.

A law firm in Shropshire is celebrating after being the only firm in the county to be nominated for a national training award.

Exciting news! Oswestry Equestrian Centre have become a British Riding Club Centre. So they are now forming a new riding club for the Oswestry area, based at OEC. The aim is to run friendly, fun competitions and training and social events. This will be open to all; livery clients, riding school clients and local riders.

The launch of Oswestry BID (Business Improvement District) takes place on March 15th and all locally-based businesses, in or around the town centre or industrial estate, are invited. The launch aims to introduce the BID, show how the BID works, and illustrate what good BIDs can achieve for a town’s local economy.

Professionals from the world of brain injury treatment and rehabilitation are being invited to come together for a networking event being held in Shropshire.

While many of us were huddled around the fire, hardy supporters of heritage and greenspace scaled the ramparts of Old Oswestry in the bitter February cold for the annual hillfort hug.

Costs that businesses incur to clean up after the recent storms, that affected the north and east coasts in particular, need to meet the usual qualifying criteria that they are incurred “wholly and exclusively” for business purposes in order to be a legitimate write-off for tax purposes.