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New charity
Hi there, I'm involved in starting a new charity (The Violet Trust) with some work colleagues in a bid to co-ordinate our fundraising efforts for cancer research and care charities. We were fortunate to get our charity number in December and the hard work of starting it up is just about done so we can concentrate on…
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Toddler Group & VAT
Hi, Should a toddler group that is run in the local community centre by parents have to pay VAT on toy purchases for the uexclusive use of the toddler group? The toddler group isn't a registered charity or anything but is non profit making. Thanks
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Business Insurance: Problem getting cover
Hi, One of my latest business ventures is selling items online via a website I created. I'm trying to get insurance but companies will not cover me if I sell items to America. What does everyone else do? Thanks
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What will you be doing now the tax regime has changed?
Don't know about you, but I have been paying myself a wage on the money I made up to the 10% threshold, but then dividends thereafter (as a Ltd Co). Being faced with the change in regime, am thinking of switching to a higher percentage of dividends. How would this be viewed by the tax office? Anyone else facing the same…
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Is now a bad time to start a business?
Hi all Firstly, please excuse me if I've put this in the wrong section, I wasn't sure where to put it lol. Right, my OH is a subcontractor electrician who is currently having problems getting paid by the company he is working for. It has been many weeks since he has been paid. In my opinion rather than keep working 12…
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Former Petrol Station Sites for Lease?
You see all these former petrol station sites taken over by these hand car washes... I was wondering how one would go about trying to officially lease a former petrol site from the owners. I have tried to contact various petrol companies but have not had any replies. Surely these hand car washes arent paying massive rents?…
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How would you market this service?
Hi I am in the throws of setting up a mast photography business and I am wondering what is the best way to get interest in what I have to offer. Basically, mast photography is the use of a telescopic pole (upto 50ft) with a camera mounted at the top, operated remotely via a laptop. It means you can get birds eye shots that…
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Importing From Spain / Elsewhere
Hi, We're currently looking to make a wholesale order of footwear from a manufacturer in Spain, and were told that would we would have a pay 16-17% Spanish tax or somesuch on the order. Are they referring to import duty? Would there be import duty payable on this order? Quite a few of our potential suppliers are based in…
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SB: Recommendations for Small Business Insurance
Hi, I'm setting up a small business and have just taken on a space in a small business centre as premises. I need to sort out insurance for my stock/machinery and materials in my unit and I guess some form of public liability. I've looked on a few websites but they seem to want to split businesses into specific types - ie…
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Writing off stock & VAT - anyone know?
Hi, I have to throw some stock away which was a really stupid buy a couple of years ago that I have not been able to sell, but now the damn hasgot to it so I am just throwing it away. I take it I can write the stock off in my books myself but does anyone have any idea what do about the VAT I paid on the goods and whether I…
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Getting a customer to pay up!
hi, I have a small business (new to it) and I supplied goods to the value of £95.00 (small amount to some but when you have business rents and rates to pay every little counts) to a customer just before christmas, but their cheque bounced and what I want to know is is there any of recovering the money or is it not worth…
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new financial year
i know this is going to sound totally dumb....:rolleyes: but when do you start your new financial year is it on the 6th of april? or can you do it on the 1st ? why i am asking up until now i have been logging eveything into a book. but a few weeks ago i bought a basic programme called quick books 2008, as i going to put…
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Buying printed raffle tickets
Anyone know a good/cheap place to buy sequentially numbered raffle tickets, the sort that come in books with tear off stubs?
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Restaurant accounting software
Hi guys, i hope you can help! We brought a restaurant 10 months ago and we hired a guy who would be handling all the book keeping etc so i didnt have to be involved... well he left and we have spent the last few months kind of muddling through. I really need some software that can calculate everything for me and i brought…
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Distance Selling Regs - do they apply here?
Hi I don't know if this is in the right place but here goes. I have a small business and on 25th March signed up to a website who (for a fee obviously) would "advertise" my business by way of links in appropriate categories. Now I know I should have done some more research before I agreed, but the sales lady did a fab job,…
