Shows
Summing Up - The official podcast from Lovewell Blake Chartered Accountants and Financial Planners!Top tips for companies setting up in the UKThe things all international businesses need to consider when setting up and operating in the UK. James is joined by Lovewell Blake Senior Partner Simon Watson to talk through the compliance obligations and strategic planning opportunities when forming and operating companies in the UK.#InternationalBusiness #BusinessInTheUK #Business #CompanyFormationUK #LB1858
2026-02-1615 min
Summing Up - The official podcast from Lovewell Blake Chartered Accountants and Financial Planners!Speak Up: The Time to Talk Day SpecialTime to Talk Day is all about braving the big conversations around mental health. In this episode of Summing Up, Nathan Bowden joins James Shipp to explore mental health, men’s wellbeing, and the responsibilities employers carry in supporting their teams.#MentalHealth #TimeToTalk #Conversation #Wellbeing #MensMentalHealth #Podcast #OpenConversations #LB1858
2026-02-0631 min
Summing Up - The official podcast from Lovewell Blake Chartered Accountants and Financial Planners!Purchasing a Dental Practice - Everything you need to knowRichard Keeler joins James to continue discussions around Dentists and business structures. This time they cover the purchase of a dental practice, the key considerations, what to look for in a target practice and when the fit might not be right.#Dental #Dentist #DentalAccountant #Accountant #Tax #DentalSpecialist #Purchase #DentalPractice #Podcast #LB1858
2026-01-2116 min
Summing Up - The official podcast from Lovewell Blake Chartered Accountants and Financial Planners!Limited Companies for DentistsRichard Keeler re-joins James on the podcast for the second instalment aimed at Dentists and Dental Associates. This time James and Richard cover limited company structures, whether this is right for you and alternative ways of structuring a dental business.#podcast #business #dental #dentist #finance #lb1858
2026-01-0511 min
Summing Up - The official podcast from Lovewell Blake Chartered Accountants and Financial Planners!Budget 2025 implications for Business and EntrepreneursSophie Spaul re-joins James to review the recent Budget form a business perspective. Much attention has been on the impact on individuals but there was more within the detail which will heavily impact business and entrepreneurs. Sophie and James dissect the detail and summarise key policies.#Podcast #Budget2025 #Business #Accountancy #Tax #Entrepreneurs #LB1858 #KeyPolicies
2025-12-1528 min
Summing Up - The official podcast from Lovewell Blake Chartered Accountants and Financial Planners!Family Farm Tax Explained: What the 2026 Inheritance Tax Changes Mean for FarmersRyan Lincoln returns to follow up discissions on the new Inheritance Tax rules for Farmers in what has been called the Family Farm Tax. There was no u-turn in the recent Budget so Farmers and business owners need to plan ahead urgently. James and Ryan confirm the policy and discuss the main tax planning options available and where different options may suit different families.#Agriculture #Podcast #Business #Farming #Finance #BusinessPodcast #FinancialProfessional #Accountant #IHT #InheritanceTax #InheritanceTaxPlanning #Sucession #LB1858
2025-12-0829 min
Summing Up - The official podcast from Lovewell Blake Chartered Accountants and Financial Planners!Becoming a Dental Associate: Your complete guide to Tax, Accounts and getting financially readyJames is joined by Dental accountant and Healthcare expert Richard Keeler to discuss the journey of Dentists into their first role as a Dental Associate. Becoming self employed can be a complex and challenging time and being financially prepared is crucially important. Richard talks through the accounting obligations, how to save towards tax bills and the optimum structure for a Dental associate.#Dentist #Dental #DentalAssociate #SelfEmployed #Tax #Finance #DentalAccountant #Healthcare #Podcast #LB1858
2025-12-0119 min
Summing Up - The official podcast from Lovewell Blake Chartered Accountants and Financial Planners!Company Size Changes – Do I Still Need an Audit?Audit specialist Abi Robinson re-joins James again to cover the upcoming changes to company size limits and how they affect the need for an audit.#Audit #Company #Companies #Finance #Podcast #Accountant #Auditor #Business #LB1858
2025-11-1721 min
Summing Up - The official podcast from Lovewell Blake Chartered Accountants and Financial Planners!Inheritance Tax on farms – should I take action?Agriculture specialist Ryan Lincoln joins James to talk about the recently announced changes to Inheritance Tax for farms and businesses. With under a year to go until implementation, Ryan covers what is changing, what options are available and how some of his farming clients are dealing with these challenges.
2025-11-0525 min
Summing Up - The official podcast from Lovewell Blake Chartered Accountants and Financial Planners!How Will the Budget Affect Me?James is joined by Tax Specialist Sophie Spaul to discuss the upcoming Budget. With so much trepidation and concern about tax measures in this Budget we consider what is likely to be enacted and what needs to be done in advance to prepare. James and Sophie also consider broader political aspects which are driving policy under this government.#Budget #AutumnStatement #Budget2025 #Money #Finance #TaxChanges #TaxRules #Government #GovernmentPolicy #Tax #LB1858
2025-11-0332 min
Summing Up - The official podcast from Lovewell Blake Chartered Accountants and Financial Planners!Should I buy my next car through my business?Ed Passmore returns to the podcast to talk about Company Car tax planning. Covering electric and hybrid cars, new rules for vans and pickup trucks, upcoming changes to benefit in kind rates and how best to plan a new vehicles lease. Do not commit to a new vehicles until you have listened to Ed’s expert views on this very important topic for business owners.#CompanyCar #BenefitInKind #TaxRates #TaxRelief #CarTax #Taxes #Business #HybridCars #ElectricCars #Podcast #Accountant #TaxAdvisor #LB1858
2025-10-2035 min
Summing Up - The official podcast from Lovewell Blake Chartered Accountants and Financial Planners!Focus on SME’s – Companies House changesRyan Lincoln re-joins James in the first of a mini series where James and Ryan discuss current issues affecting SME’s. In this episode the focus is on upcoming changes at Companies House including identity verification for shareholders, digital filing of accounts and the prospect of all small companies reporting profit and turnover information to the public record.#Business #CompaniesHouse #Shareholders #Accounts #DigitalFiling #Companies #Company #LB1858
2025-10-0620 min
Summing Up - The official podcast from Lovewell Blake Chartered Accountants and Financial Planners!The Lovewell Blake Community Fund!James is joined by Mat Waters from Lovewell Blakes Halesworth office to talk about the Lovewell Blake Community Fund. Aimed at small charities and clubs based in East Anglia this episode delves into the origins of the fund, how Mat and his colleagues administer fundraising and tips on how applicants can request a grant.#Fundraising #SupportLocal #Community #CommunitySupport #RaisingMoney #Teamwork #LB1858
2025-09-2215 min
Summing Up - The official podcast from Lovewell Blake Chartered Accountants and Financial Planners!Pensions Explained: Smart Retirement Planning and Tax StrategiesJames is rejoined by Financial Adviser Jon Matchett to cover all things pension related. Starting with tax incentives for investing in pensions, how to structure your affairs efficiently and how will new Inheritance Tax rules impact strategy. #financialplanning #finance #pension #podcast #retirement #retirementplanning
2025-09-0928 min
Summing Up - The official podcast from Lovewell Blake Chartered Accountants and Financial Planners!Inheritance Tax, Trusts & CGT: The Ultimate Landlord Tax Strategy GuideEd Passmore is a Tax Partner at Lovewell Blake and specialises in advising Landlords. In this episode Ed joins James to talk about both the structural and tax aspects of running a successful property business with a particular emphasis on limited company ownership, Inheritance Tax planning, Trusts and Capital Gains Tax when changing ownership.#Podcast #Landlords #Property #Tax #InheritanceTaxPlanning #InheritanceTax #Ownership #LB1858
2025-08-2629 min
Summing Up - The official podcast from Lovewell Blake Chartered Accountants and Financial Planners!Football Finance Explained by Accountants: How Clubs Spend BigDom Smith returns to the podcast to talk about one of his passions – football finance. What are the different rules? How can some clubs appear to fall foul whereas others spend regularly, and what does it mean for your club? Dom and James dig into recent high-profile cases and compare the rules to everyday businesses.#Football #FootballFinance #SportsFinance #Podcast #LB1858
2025-08-1131 min
Summing Up - The official podcast from Lovewell Blake Chartered Accountants and Financial Planners!Making Tax Digital for Income Tax is coming!From early 2026 smaller businesses and landlords will be required to report trading figures to HMRC electronically on a quarterly basis. Join the Lovewell Blake experts to understand who will be effected, what changes will be required and how to prepare. James talks to Ryan Lincoln and Mary Schofield to get the inside story from both the accounting and tax perspective.#Podcast #Business #Finance #Tax #Income
2025-07-2112 min
Summing Up - The official podcast from Lovewell Blake Chartered Accountants and Financial Planners!Internationally mobile workers - where should tax be paid?Sadie Nicholls joins James again, this time to talk about international workers. Specifically Sadie considers which country tax is payable, how the social security rules don't always follow tax rules and what employers need to think about if your staff are working abroad.#WorkingOverseas #TaxRules #InternationalWorkers #WorkingAbroad #LB1858 #podcast
2025-07-1424 min
Summing Up - The official podcast from Lovewell Blake Chartered Accountants and Financial Planners!Meet the Editor: Richard PorrittIn the first Business Leaders discussion James is joined by EDP Editor Richard Porritt to talk about the current state of the local economy, challenges in running one of the largest regional newspapers in the country and Richard’s personal journey as a journalist #Business #Podcast #MeetTheEditor #Finance #Norfolk #LB1858
2025-06-3039 min
Summing Up - The official podcast from Lovewell Blake Chartered Accountants and Financial Planners!Worldwide Income and Gains: How to stay compliant with UK Tax lawJames talks to Sadie Nicholls about UK resident taxpayers who may have undeclared overseas income. Often a UK tax disclosure is required even if no tax is due. Sadie guides us through the reporting and compliance obligations. #InternationalTax #Tax #WorldwideTax #Overseas #Income #LB1858
2025-06-0213 min
Summing Up - The official podcast from Lovewell Blake Chartered Accountants and Financial Planners!R&D Tax relief – The system, pitfalls and how to maximise your claimResearch and Development activities can be expensive and time consuming but HMRC want to help. James is joined by Mary Schofield to discuss the R&D tax relief scheme and how innovative companies can benefit from enhanced tax relief. Mary provides her top tips on how to make the system work for you.#ResearchAndDevelopment #R&D #Tax #TaxRelief #Accountants #TaxSpecialists #LB1858
2025-05-1928 min
Summing Up - The official podcast from Lovewell Blake Chartered Accountants and Financial Planners!Business Protection and what happens if...James is joined by Financial Planning Specialist, Jon Matchett to talk about business protection policies and how structured planning can help deal with business risk, family earnings and facilitate business transitions should the worst happen.
2025-05-0619 min
Summing Up - The official podcast from Lovewell Blake Chartered Accountants and Financial Planners!Business Expenses – what can I claim?James is joined by Shaun Davison to talk through the minefield that is business expenses. What can be claimed against business profits and how to treat costs which are not clearly business or personal. From company cars to workwear and uniforms, James and Shaun provide guidance on how treatment can differ based on business structure and how to maximise your claim.
2025-04-2321 min
Summing Up - The official podcast from Lovewell Blake Chartered Accountants and Financial Planners!R&D Tax relief – The system, pitfalls and how to maximise your claimResearch and Development activities can be expensive and time consuming but HMRC want to help. James is joined by Sam Palmer to discuss the R&D tax relief scheme and how innovative companies can benefit from enhanced tax relief. Sam provides his top tips on how to make the system work for you.
2025-04-2321 min
Summing Up - The official podcast from Lovewell Blake Chartered Accountants and Financial Planners!Audit exemption and needing an audit for the first timeAbi Robinson joins James to talk all things audit. In this episode discussions cover what an audit is, tips for companies requiring an audit for the first time and opportunities for businesses who may no longer require an audit.
2025-04-0714 min
Summing Up - The official podcast from Lovewell Blake Chartered Accountants and Financial Planners!Limited v Sole Trader - How to structure a new business start-upJames Shipp is joined by Dom Smith to discuss the pros and cons of a limited company over other business structures such as sole trader, partnership and LLP. Considerations include risk, tax and cost and delve into the reasons why entrepreneurs structure successful businesses in the way they do.#newbusiness #businessstructure #accountancy #limitedcompany #soletrader #partnership #lb1858
2025-03-2428 min
Radio Free PizzaThe Frogged Bloc's MortarGeopolitics junkies, come get your fix! The 2024 BRICS+ summit now in progress in Kazan, Russia marks a critical juncture for the trading bloc and its growing list of members as they consider expanding their influence beyond talk and into a full-fledged economic powerhouse. For that reason, the summit might indeed mark a turning point in global finance and the international capital order: after all, attendees include not only President Vladimir Putin of the host country, President Xi Jinping of China, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, and President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, but also President Masoud Pezeshkian of...
2024-10-2325 min
Monero TalkMonero vs. the Surveillance State w/ Blake Lovewell / EPI #30288MWhce9wToCCENbRgfZ6X54Dx8HF4bYY79YkYN9nXeqCDmykzXuq48HWe6k9eZDkA4iYpLbTsvpXPnAGCALHTTMLUp8cWi
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TODAY'S SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Blake Lovewell a researcher, writer, and privacy advocate.
The two discuss topics related to privacy, censorship resistance, decentralization, Bitcoin, Monero and the cypherpunk ideology. Blake covers his background researching macroeconomics, politics and technology. They examine increasing censorship attempts towards Monero, including recent exchange de-listings, as signs of success.
Timestamps:
(00:00:00) Introductions and Backgrounds
(00:11:30) Evolving Perspectives on Cryptocurrency
(00:15:30) Surveillance Capabilities and Societal Control
(00:28:44...
2024-03-111h 17
This Is the AuthorS8 E17: Alexandra Auder, John Blake, and Emma LovewellIn this episode, meet writer and actress Alexandra Auder, CNN journalist John Blake, and Live Learn Lovewell founder Emma Lovewell. Hear these authors talk about the process of narrating their memoirs: from the fascinating life experiences that inspired their work, to conveying those experiences in the recording studio.
Don't Call Me Home by Alexandra Auder: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/679125/dont-call-me-home/
More Than I Imagined by John Blake: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/706045/more-than-i-imagined/
Live Learn Love Well by Emma Lovewell: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/704082/live-learn-love-well/
2023-05-0211 min
Sunday Wire with Patrick Henningsen‘Pre-Holiday Chaos’ with guests Basil Valentine and Blake LovewellACR & 21WIRE Present: Sunday Wire with Patrick HenningsenThis week the SUNDAY WIRE broadcasts LIVE on ACR, with host Patrick Henningsen covering the biggest stories in the US, Europe and internationally. In this special episode of the show Patrick is joined live in-studio by the Sunday Wire’s roving correspondent for culture & sport, Basil Valentine and writer Blake Lovewell to discuss this week’s most controversial and bizarre stories, including the release by Elon Musk of the explosive TWITTER FILES. All this and much more.Featured Music: Peter Conway, Permanent Wave & Walk-On Armyhttps://alte...
2022-12-041h 35
Sleep Over with Carolyn and LailaThe Alchemy of Following Your Night-time DreamsCarolyn and Laila talk about the mind-melting synchronicities and visions connected to the most recent Sleep Over Mystery School, Rosicrucian Summer Camp edition. Also continuing thoughts about LaMDA and our gnostic hero Blake Lemoine.
2022-07-1548 min
Sunday Wire with Patrick HenningsenEpisode #421 – ‘5D Jubilee’ with Andrew Mather, Basil Valentine and Blake LovewellACR & 21WIRE Present: Sunday Wire with Patrick HenningsenThis week the SUNDAY WIRE broadcasts LIVE on ACR, with host Patrick Henningsen covering all the top stories in US, UK and internationally. This week, we’ll be joined by special guest, UK-based author and entrepreneur, Andrew Mather, to talk about geopolitical developments surrounding Ukraine and the global economy and their historical context, and how human events, like Covid, happening now around the world are presenting certain fundamental challenges for our civilization today. We’ll also be joined by the Sunday Wire’s roving correspondent for culture & sport, Basil Valentine, along...
2022-06-052h 46
Sunday Wire with Patrick HenningsenEpisode #417 – ‘Mayday!’ with guests Robert Inlakesh, Blake Lovewell & Basil ValentineACR & 21WIRE Present: Sunday Wire with Patrick Henningsen - Your weekly news omnibus!This week the SUNDAY WIRE broadcasts LIVE on ACR, with host Patrick Henningsen covering all the top stories in US, UK and internationally. This week, we’ll be joined in-studio by special guests Basil Valentine and Blake Lovewell, and also by remote link with international journalist, Robert Inlakesh for an update on the situation in Palestine, and the marking of International Quds Day. All this and much more.Featured Music, with permission, by Walk-On Army & UtilityUtility - https://utility1.bandcamp.com/re...
2022-05-012h 11
Dental Business Transactions PodcastWhat the dental accountants are seeing.Simon De-Lacy Adams is a specialist dental accountant at Lovewell Blake. Apart from his appearance on the TV docusoap about the Savoy Hotel, Simon talks about how his dental clients are doing compared to pre lockdown #1, his predictions for the months ahead and why up to date and accurate financial reporting is the key to any business decisions now or in the future.
2021-06-1730 min