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Transfering money to bizz account to prevent fees?
Hi, The free period on my biz bank account is coming to an end soon and I'll have to pay a fee if I don't pay in £1000 per month. That would be most months at the moment as I normaly pay in under £1000. I could just transfer £1000 in from my personal account every month and back out again so I didn't get charged the fees…
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Changing from submitting tax return by accountant to submitting it yourself
I have been using an accountant to submit my tax return for years now, but I am considering doing it myself. I am a one-man outfit and can be classified as a sole trader. I am not at all anti-accountant. In fact on this forum getting a good accountant is something I always suggest to people strting off in business.…
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First year of Self Assessment, left it late, now in a panic... can anyone help?
Hey all, I realise this is going to sound like we're completely disorganised, which we are, and totally stupid, which I feel. We've just realised we've left it really late to fill in our SA Tax Returns, and I'm hitting hurdles really early on. We run a small seasonal business that operates mostly at music festivals…
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Advice on payments
Currently our customers pay upwards of £300 for work we've done and they usually just pay it into our bank, although they're regular, only one does it by standing order. We are looking at setting something up where businesses would be paying £25 per month ish on a regular basis. What is the easiest and best way to organise…
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Free Charity Websites
Hi, I am administrator for a small charity, I have been told there are several companies that give free webspace etc for charities to build a website, can anyone recommend a good and simple one please? Thanks MIC:beer:
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kashflow?
anyone used it? i got a small plastering company, need normally to do 20-30 quotes and 10 or so invoices, chasing up payments etc which takes some time today a client did show me this cash flow 15 a month rent though seemed to round up lots of things in 1 page... could even give''restricted'' access to my accountant when…
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Website sales question
Asking this for a mate of mine: They have a website, part of which is online sales. They sold an item before Christmas, packaged up, sent off, it probably got there around 19th December. They have received an email today saying that the customer wants to return it because they have found it cheaper locally. What should…
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The Frugal Entrepreneur Website
Just thought the site might help someone (as I managed to download a few things in excel). I admit, the temPlates In $$ aren't much help - but some of the other things are! Sometimes I dunno why I even bother. :(
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Am I allowed to do this?
Hello all, I posted yesterday that I had funding in place- to be received Jan 2013 to work for a year as a private fundraiser, this is on a fairly good salary/ bonus package My question is am I allowed to take a few people on now at a lower level ( part time basis ) with the guarantee of there money back in Jan 2013 ( +4%…
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World record attempt in aid of RNLI - TODAY!
Hello, There is a world record attempt going on today aiming to get 100k posts on one blog post in 24 hours (this started at 6am this morning). It is free to comment but for each comment a donation will be made to RNLI. The comments can be about anything you like but must be a minimum of two words and ten characters. If…
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Can anyone recommend a debt recovery agency
Hello there, Long time reader, first time poster. I run a small business renting out a couple of flats. Last year a tenant stopped paying his rent and left the flat in a really bad state. Following on from this and subsequent chasing up of the debt I now have a CCJ against him for around £2500. As you can imagine this is a…
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tax return for first time
Hi there, some advice would be appreciated., Background is. Have been PAYE for 25+ years, have a part time (2 days per week) job which isn't taking me over tax threshold at moment, which I've had for 18 months (beforehand was a higher rate tax payer - it's a long story!) Am now doing some work for another business - but…
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Having a bad time, would like a fresh start
I would really appreciate some help. For three years I worked for a charity that I loved, with a supportive manager. In July this year another company took them over and have been awful. Firstly they took away all my reasonable adjustments I need to work, and became so awful and caused me so much stress, it aggravated my…
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Advice on Company promotion
Hello all, For a number of years I was working as a fundraiser for a fairly big charity and was pretty successful at it In that time I became friends with a number of the funders for the charity one of which has offered for me to work privately for him How this works is he is going to pay for me to go into smaller…
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My company has gone 'bump' but what do i do?!
I started a company in april 2011 and by end of november I couldnt afford to carry on trading, i couldnt pay invoices so couldnt obtain more goods to try and earn the money to pay the debts. I was told to write to the companies i owe money to (7 totalling nearly £16,000) and explain the company had cceased trading and was…
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Small Business Electric Prices ?
Moved by me......... :D
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Business Address Options
I am preparing to set up my own business that will mainly involve the sale of goods online. It will entail the delivery of small parcels to myself as well as ordinary post. Due to the terms of the rental property I am in, I am not allowed to use the premises for business. As my business grows I will need to look at…
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HELP!!...Company gone into Administration and owes me money..
:money:Hi Basically I’m a self employed Courier driver, I do all my driving for an Engineering company Today I’ve been told the company has gone into Administration and I need to attend a meeting tomorrow morning (I will update you on this!) The really bad news for me is they owe me a lot of money (£7,000!) 1. What are the…
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Most cost-efficient payment processing for a website?
Hi all. I have just launched an e-business website and currently have only Paypal processing payments. Paypal charges fees of 3.4% + £0.20 for each transaction. Is there another reputable payment processor that offers better value to small business/start-up businesses such as mine please? I have a business account with…
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Finance
Hi, Looking at borrowing some money to expand our small business. I'm in the process of putting all of the figures together at the moment. Just wondered if anyone had any advice/hints/tips that may be useful when looking to borrow some money. The business has always made a decent profit so hopefully thats a plus point for…
