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free website
hiya i am looking at starting a basic website in which you can buy products linked with my paypal account im looking at starting somthing easy to understand at the moment mainly to advertise at shows does anyone have experience of setting up small shops online thanks
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Selling assets after cessation of business
Can anyone give some advice please. My husband and I are closing down our business. He is taking early retirement and I am working full time elsewhere. After the end of our trading year we sold a van for £6K +VAT. The VAT was paid. What I am wondering is how the £6K will be treated by the taxman. Does it come in as profit?…
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Time To Stock Up On Postage Stamps !!!!
Thought this might help small biz/charities some money. "People should start stock-piling stamps now ahead of an expected steep price rise in April, the official consumer watchdog has said. " http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/royal-mail/9027910/Stock-pile-stamps-now-Royal-Mail-customers-told.html WH SMITH Cheaper…
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Small Ltd business security risk online?
Hello All Hope im posting this in the right place, apologies if not. Was shocked to discover yesterday that you can input any Ltd companies name into google (or indeed a home address) and find out 'cash at bank' and other financial details about the company and directors addresses at a click of a button, you dont even have…
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Web design from elance and similar
I have a wordpress site that I need designed as none of the themes available are to my taste or incorporate all my needs, I'm not techie so I'm thinking about getting someone from elance or similar to design it to my specifications, does anyone have any experience of using such sites or a reasonably priced web designer to…
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understanding small business accounts
Hi all New here so please be gentle! Im trying to understand how turnover of a business is calculated. Is it:- a invoice has a total cost of £500, materials for this job cost £200 and the labour was £300. As the materials had to be 'bought' and sold, is the turnover of this job £700 as the materials have been bought and…
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Self employed tax on drawings help
Hello. I am self employed. I own a shop. I don't take much money out of the shop for myself, it's a new business, my partner makes enough money to sort us out each month, I just take the odd bit now and then, I am putting a lot of money back into my business, advertising etc... Anyway, What I would like to know is, how…
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Funding for Post Office purchase
I'm interested in buying a Post Office near to us but am struggling to get the funding to buy the leasehold. Is there any reason why I can't try to negotiate a drastic reduction in the value of the leashold but agree to pay increases rental?
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Business name ideas and suggestions required!
A frequent poster on this forum under another username but that one gives my area, lots about me away, etc, etc, which I'm keeping schtum on for now. :grin: I'm looking for business name ideas for a new business I'm looking to set up at some point this year. It will be a dog day care centre. Away we go.... lets see what…
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Want To Start My Own Small Cupcake Business But Need Advice
Hi, I hope i have wrote this in the right place! I have recently discovered my passion for making cupcakes, i decided that i would like to set up a business (very small) to work alongside my part time job. I have read online and i understand that i have to get my kitchen checked by an enviromental health officer. I am…
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newspaper & magazine advertising
hiya i have a large amount of an item to get rid of at a good price but just not sure how to go about getting rid of a lot of things at once have considered groupon but there share of profit is just too high . Has anyone ever run a special offer in a newspaper or magazine i know magazines charge around 10k an advert but i…
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Small Business- How to cheaply promote Competitions? (Bellydance teachers)
Hello! Ive tried searching the threads but can't seem to find what I am looking for, but apologies if there are already similar threads. We have recently set up an Academy of Egyptian Dance and teach bellydance classes in Merseyside and Cheshire. We are trying to keep initial outlay relatively low as it is quite a niche…
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Really whats to start my own Business !!!!
starting a business how to get funding Loans investors grants funding so how would i go out getting help with funding my business
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Help the forces
Had a call from them today. Pay them a few hundred quid and I can give my best wishes to the armed forces in the diary they produce, seems to be a new theme of a well known scam.( http://www.advertisingprotectionagency.org/sample-1.php ) If anyone knows if its legit please let me know. Also the bloke said they are…
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Sending parcels overseas
Hi, I'm setting up a scheme whereby my workplace send unwanted children's books to schools in Zambia. Parcel Force will cost over £100 for a 10KG parcel, surely there must be another company that's cheaper, or special rates for books? I'd be grateful for any info - thanks!
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Wells Fargo BusinessLine - any feedback
Hello Anyone used Wells Fargo Businessline? It appears to be like a credit card/overdraft facility for businesses. The interest rate looks quite attractive although I have not applied yet. Any drawbacks? Thanks
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Any one dealt with.. Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998?
Has anybody had any dealings with... Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998? Can you be charged theses after the bills have been paid for and the company no longer exists as it went to administration Feb last year? This letter has come out of the blue from the administrators Any advice would be helpful? Many…
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£560 accountant bill (!)
Hey MSEr’s Just looking rather in shock at a bill posted to me of £560 + VAT for tax return (from accountant). Surely this doesn’t take 7 hours to complete (although I understand that as Self-Employed, Company Director and Town/District/County Councillor, with 2 rental properties and capital gains to declare, my tax bill…
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Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998
Hello, We dealt with a Horticultural for over 20 years, they went in to administration this time last year. Their general terms of sale in the back of their catalogue states: payment is due by the 28th of the following month. However for the last twenty years we have always paid our bills within 60 days, it was never a…
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PAYE, calculations and P60???
Last year I took on the PAYE for myself and partner to save a few schekels. It's a limited company but only two of us. I bought a PAYE spreadsheet which seemed well respected and had been around a few years. That year ending March 2011 I thought I had done with. I sent off the end of year stuff to HMRC. I produced two P60s…
