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Event details:
📅15 April 2026
🕘 19:00 - 21:00
📍 Free online event
Every year, around this time, I get the same question from dentists I speak to.
"Arun, am I paying too much tax?"
Honestly? Most of the time, the answer is yes. Not because HMRC is out to get you. But because nobody sat down with them at the start of the year and made a plan.
The 5th of April is just days away. That means pension contributions, dividend decisions, capital allowances, and ISA top-ups all need to happen before the clock runs out. After that, it's 2026/27 - a fresh slate, but also a year where several thresholds and reliefs have shifted.
Here's something worth knowing, the UK government froze income tax thresholds until 2028. What that means in practice is that as your income rises with inflation, more of it gets dragged into higher tax bands without any headline rate change. It's sometimes called "fiscal drag" and it's quietly costing a lot of dentists money they don't realise they're losing.
That's exactly why I'm hosting a free two-hour webinar on 15 April, 7–9pm, alongside Natasha (who leads our tax and cloud accounting work) and Uros (our finance expert). We'll be covering everything that's changed for 2026/27, live, no slides full of jargon, just the kind of practical conversation we have with our clients every day.
[Join the waitlist here → samera.co.uk/events/new-tax-year-new-financial-you]
Spaces are limited, and the first 50 to register get a free 30-minute tax health check call on top.
There's something else I want to mention, because it's relevant to every practice owner reading this and it has nothing to do with tax.
While we were helping practices get their finances in order, we noticed something. A huge amount of time and money was being lost not to bad tax planning, but to bad processes. Specifically, associate pay calculations.
Every week, in practices across the UK, someone is exporting data from Dentally, building a spreadsheet, crosschecking UDA figures, calculating associate deductions, and then manually keying the whole lot into Xero. For a practice with three or four associates, that's a 3-5 hour job. Every single week. Some practices have a part-time bookkeeper whose entire role, in practice, is doing exactly this.
So we built something to fix it.
Samera.ai connects directly to Dentally and pushes accurate associate pay journals straight into Xero, automatically, without anyone touching a spreadsheet. Dentally data in. Xero journals out. That's it. We'll be doing a live demo during the webinar on the 15th, real data, real output, in real time and every attendee gets an exclusive free trial to test it inside their own practice.
I built this because I was frustrated watching smart people waste hours on something a machine should be doing. If you run associates, you'll want to see this.
Speak soon,
Arun
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