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Business Plan: Bar/Pub
I am in the process of writing a business plan and would like to ask anybody who owns or operates a bar in England if they could give me a rough estimate of the rates i would likely need to pay on the following information: First, a little information about the surrounding area. I have found a premise on a high street in a…
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Name slightly wrong on Money Claim Online claim form
Hi all, First of all thank you for taking the time to read this post and any help/advice you provide. I know this is my first post here, but I'd really appreciate your help on my problem :) Basically a customer of mine has not paid for some goods I provided a while ago. I have got tired of giving them second chances and…
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Best way to receive money as a charity
Hi, We are a small registered charity which runs an annual Music Festival. We want to set up a way for entrants to pay online. Any suggestions for simplest, not too expensive method gratefully received.
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Advice needed re chagring customers vat
Hi, I am after some advice if anyone can help I would appreciate it. i haev recently become s'employed selling homemade crafts. i have rung hmrc and registered, and my books are in perfect order. My concern is should i be charging vat? I have just worked out how much my materials cost and factored in labour etc but i hadnt…
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Cleaning business
Hi Another cleaning company thread! my sis is an accountant and she has been made redundant. I work in IT and redundancy looks probable this year for me too so we want to try our hands at starting a cleaning business. We want to research the idea further by actually doing it. We feel that if we can do enough marketing and…
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Charity - legal action. Would you?
A charity I worked with (and still do) did something very bad to me (I know that's cryptic, but please just trust me on it, anonymity and all that)! I'm struggling morally with whether its right to commence legal action against a charity, or whether to chalk it up to life's experience and hope one day I get over it! And if…
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Business Advice on Ex Business Partner & HSBC
6 years ago I set up in busines with a good firend of mine whom I had know for 20 years+. We applied to HSBC for a business loan of 20K. This loan was given to us as a secured loan. Some years later after my business partner decided to take all money from the business as she was in financial crises (without asking by the…
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What benefits of becoming a business?
Hi I would appreciate some advice on starting a business. For some time I have been selling items from a personal collection, on ebay and elsewhere on the internet, I have not bought to profit so I have not needed to declare it. They have sold quite well and I'm pretty sure I could make a decent small business from buying…
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Thinking of setting up a "funky pigeon"/"Moonpig"-type card site, need printing
I've got a couple of ideas for a personalised, print on demand site that caters to quite niche interests (nothing naughty!) I can design the website and sort the content/branding myself, but it's the printing/distribution that's stymying me. I'd welcome suggestions for printing services that would operate like this: 1 -…
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Is a Town Market with just one trader legal?
Following redundancy I re-trained as a Dog Groomer opening premises offering grooming and pet related supplies a year ago. I chose the location based on the closure of existing grooming salon /pet store due to retirement. What I did not know that each Friday there is a local market in the town square directly opposite my…
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Corporation tax
My partner has his own business he owed 20k in corporation tax of which he paid. Most of his co workers are self employeed for years. Both of them told him he was stupid to pay and that he should have spent all the money? I am onfused by this anyone have any idea what they are talking about? Are they trying to show aloss?…
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Small Business Debt Advice Official Discussion
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Charity Honesty Boxes
Hi I supply flapjack for honesty boxes (and the boxes) to a national charity. I would like to offer the service to other charities. Can anyone tell me and who to contact and the best way to contact them?
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PPL again!!!
The garage where I am a self employed bookkeeper has just had a bill from this lot, telling us we need a licence for playing music in a public place. OK, fine, but we don't have a radio in the office or the workshop, we don't listen to CD's and we don't "deliberately" play any kind of music or radio at any time (I can't…
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Supplier has taken money from my account without notice
Hi all, i'm hoping someone can offer some advice. I'm self employed and have a car lease contract. Due to extended delays on their part, we were forced to hire a van on daily hire basis for about 3 months, before our 'new' lease van was delivered. At that time, I told them that we'd been given a quote for daily hire with…
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Very low income with some freelancing - should I pay Class 2 NI anyway?
My current situation is that I am working part-time for a company, from which I earn about 7k a year total. I have also just started to do a little bit of freelance work and earn around £50 a week from this. I don't pay NI through my PAYE earnings as I don't earn enough (I think - it isn't being taken from my wages on my…
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Full and final settlement
I have long since believed (possibly incorrectly???) that if someone offers you a payment 'in full and final settlement', if you choose to accept that payment then there is no future claim against them. On the other hand, if you are not happy to accept the offer, the payment can be rejected and you can pursue a higher…
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Starting up a home baking business
Hi, I am currently planning to start a business selling baked goods. I'm hoping to sell to local shops and at local markets. I think I have most of my costs accounted for but the problem is that I have never sold before at a market so have no idea of the kinds of quantities I would sell! If anyone sells small or large…
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Affilliate Sites / Affilliate Links
Is anybody making money from affilliate links these days? I've a handful of ideas for websites / forums that i would set up with a view to generating revenue via affiliate links. I know its all traffic dependent, but is it viable to affiliate link to recommended products in terms of making even a part time income out of it?
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Domains for auction - may be some good landing pages
I sometimes buy stuff from dovebid, mostly b2b auction stuff in the media sector, but they have all sorts. Just noticed they have a wodge of domains they're helping to liquidate, including some pretty decent ones clearly bought as speculative landing pages for affiliate sites and the like. Some, however, might be of…