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A well-paid doorman might seem inefficient. Their job includes greeting guests, helping with luggage and hailing taxis. A manager might conclude that guests are perfectly capable of doing these things themselves. So why pay someone to do it?

Our next blog explores this in something called the "Doorman Fallacy" and what you can learn from it.

What you can learn from a hotel doorman - Merlin Accountancy Services Ltd Let’s imagine you’re in London for a weekend. You’ll see elegant hotels - perhaps you’ll be lucky enough to stay in one. You’ll sense the quiet prestige of

Can you guess whose jumper belongs to whom?

What another exciting and busy year this has been!

We would just like to wish all our clients, their families and our followers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Please note that the office is closed from 4:30pm on Friday 19th December and opens again fully on Monday 5th January.

Our emails won't be monitored during this time and the office mobile will be having a rest too. All messages will be answered when we return in the New Year.

The Angela Rayner story last month got us thinking. Where do our clients get their tax advice from? When's a good time - or a bad time - to get the views of that bloke down the pub? The answer is in our next blog.

When to ignore the bloke down the pub - Merlin Accountancy Services Ltd Last month, Angela Rayner resigned her plumb job as deputy prime minister. She’ll also need to make good on the £40,000 she underpaid in stamp duty on a