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Joining the Federation of Small Business
Looking to Join the FSB, as i need to issue about 4 contracts of employments... work in construction and Ltd company. dont want to go down the route of HR comp[any yet and have been looking at FSB, wondered peoples thoughts on this
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Trading allowance and marriage allowance.
I know the trading allowance is under £1000 turnover (not profit). Does my marriage allowance affect my trading allowance at all or is this a totally separate thing? I haven’t worked for a couple of years, so I have transferred my marriage allowance to my husband. This year, I have started selling crafts online and had a…
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eBay Private Seller - Self Assessment tax return??
I have been using my eBay account to sell my personal collectibles collected throughout the years. I am not registered as Business Account as I am not in any intention to trade, just to downsize my personal collection. What is classifed as Income? A painting cost me £500 a few years ago, I have sold this for £550, minus…
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Amazon FBA - Anyone use this?
Hi all. I currently sell on my own website and on eBay. I'm thinking of moving from eBay over to Amazon using the FBA option. I currently rent office space (approx £470 pm inc VAT) and pick and pack my own products, pay postage, packing, labels, ink etc etc. I know that FBA will cost more than eBay, however, my thinking is…
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Lost income due to client inconsideration
Hi. My wife's friend has recently set up a domestic cleaning business and asked my wife to help so she can grow it. Earlier this week they visited a client and only well into the job discovered that 2 members of the household had COVID (both in the house at the time). By then it was too late to do anything. At no point had…
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Excessive Gocardless fee increase
Have been using Gocardless to collect payment for my yoga classes for several years now. Overnight I see they've increased their transaction fees by more than four fold!! Where I was paying a 40p fee on a £10 transaction last week, I'm now being charged £1.70!! They sent a letter saying there were upcoming charges to my…
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Starting a Limited Company with Existing Stock (Items)
I have a large Lego collection that I've built up over several years as a hobby and have been selling some of it piece-meal. However I want sell the majority of it in the next 12 months or so to help pay down our mortgage. Currently I estimate I have about £30-40k worth at resale value. As I work fulltime and am close to…
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Wages into Personal Account instead of Business LTD
Hi, I am a Contractor with my own LTD company. For the past 3 months I have been carrying out IT work for a few companies and instead of paying the money into my Business account all 3 have paid the money into my personal account due to my own stupidity having the wrong bank account details on my invoices. I now need to…
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Direct debit wrongly paid back
have a client who paid by Direct Debit when he joined the gym 36 months ago. During that time he used the facilities on a regular basis without issue. He phoned last month saying he wanted to cancel his DD, I said that's no problem and would refund him the amount which had already been debited from his account and left ot…
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Re-registering as sole trader
Hello I'm in employment (26 hrs) and also was self employed (sole trader) part time. 1 month ago I stopped being self employed, but due to circumstances can I re-register again? Also in case it happens in the future do I need to register self employed if I'm earning less than £1000 but still employed (26hrs)?
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Client refusing to pay citing ‘substandard work’ - WWYD?
I’ve been doing freelance graphic design for a while now. I picked up a new client earlier this year and have done about 8 jobs for him so far. To be frank, he’s been a massive PITA since day 1 (constantly phoning at random times, asking for free updates, pushy disrespectful tone etc etc.) – however after telling him that…
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Limited Company Director - Electric Car Purchase
My wife and I have a nearly 5 year old limited company and our personal vehicle is on a PCP agreement ending in January. We are exploring the possibilty of switching to an electric vehicle and doing so potentailly via a lease through the business - either a PCP in the business name or BCH. As Directors, we have excellent…
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When do Customs and Excise pay
Our company has been VAT registered for many years, and we always owe them money when we do our quarterly return. We use Sage software to submit our return and this quarter they owe us a small amount instead. When do they pay? My Sage software just says 'Not Paid' against the return, and the money hasn't gone into our…
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Extracting last profit and closing company
My OH used to be a self employed consultant through a ltd company, but now has a permanent PAYE job. He is a higher rate taxpayer. There's about £5K of overpaid corporation tax that he finally managed to get refunded into his business account which he wants to extract in the most tax efficient manner. His accountant can't…
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Best Business Credit Card (not AMEX!)
We run a small cafe, turnover circa 300k. 95% of our expenditure is with the same 3-4 suppliers via direct debit taken each week. Recently got an Amex Gold Card after being recommended it, but spent today trying to switch all our DDs to it, to find not a single one of our suppliers takes Amex. So now looking at other…
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Recommend a coffee machine for a pub/restaurant
Hi All My brother-in-law has just taken on the tenancy of a pub/restaurant doing about 80 covers a day, on a good day, and they need an efficient coffee machine that is ideally bean to cup with the press of a button but not super expensive. We estimate 40 to 60 cups a day. Any one out there with experience of commercial…
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Barclaycard for business
I have a small consultancy business with three employees in total. We bank with Barclays - but couldn't get business banking cards for team members (Barclays wouldn't provide them). Instead they suggested we get Barclays business credit cards for team members, with spending limits. (This was so team members could pay for…
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Corporation Tax and HMRC Fines
I've been trying to wind up my Ltd company since 2021, and also tried to make it dormant but I've been unable to do either. I received a £100 fine from HMRC for failing to submit my return for Corporation Tax which I paid. I tried again to wind the company up and received an objection, resulting in the winding up being put…
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Freelance sites
Hi How do the freelance websites compare? I am talking about people per hour, fiverr, freelancer. I would be interested to knows peoples experience of actually securing work on these platforms. It may really depend on the work/industry I guess?! Thank you
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Royal mail standard letter UK to India delivery timelines
Hi, Does anyone have any experience of sending a letter from UK to India via Royal Mail International Standard? Royal mail delivery aim indicates 5 to 7 working days. I realise this is only an aim, but it's been 8 working days since I sent a letter so wondering if anyone has any experience of how close this aim was to…