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business rates, court summons, £24k
I'm trying to sort out a problem with business rates (council tax for businesses) - I'm not sure if this is the right forum? Please suggest alternative if it would be better. Our organisation has been sent a court summons requesting £24,889.75 Our organisation is a voluntary not-for-profit organisation. We occupied a shop…
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Director of company not submitted self assesments
Good Afternoon, I registered my own limited company in December 2013 whilst being in full time employment with another company. The company had remained dormant until February 2015 - I hadn't even registered for a bank account until January. Since February, I have traded through the company offering consultancy services…
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Charity fraud - how long?
Four weeks ago I was made aware of some pretty serious corruption involving the use of a non-for-profit companies' funding. I won't go in to too much detail, but this was anything from lying on time sheets to spending cash (hundreds) on personal items, that went straight to the employees home. I reported this anomalously…
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How does anyone afford shop rents?!
Hi all I currently work as a retail buyer in the fashion industry, and for a while now I have wanted to set up my own shop. I have all of the skills, experience and knowledge to do this after working in the field for 10 years, but the one thing that stops me is the shop rents! I am in Surrey and granted its an expensive…
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Applying for VAT exemption
Hi, my husbands business has had 2 higher value orders in last 4 months, the latest one we are due to fulfill in next 2 weeks will put our Ltd company sales over the 82K vat threshold, (89k) We deal mainly with personal customers not businesses and it's never likely to happen again that our 2 business customers will need…
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An Online Shop / Website
I've been selling Logo Design / Business Cards / CV Templates / Graphics for a year now. My first aim was to earn what I would have earnt if I had returned to work after maternity leave. I have exceeded expectations and I'm earning more each month. Most of my sales come from instant downloads on CreativeMarke. Although I…
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Any advice on moving from Part Time to Full Time Self Employment?
I have a full time job and teach yoga two evenings a week on top of that and what I'd really love to do is be self employed full time. However my difficulty is trying to build self employment without running myself in to the ground. I've tried teaching three nights a week but it really drained me on top of working and had…
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Paying tax
Hi just a quick question. I am thinking of setting a facebook page up to help raise money for rescue dogs by games, small online auctions through members donating goods etc. Will the group be liable to pay tax after raising a over a certain amount. It will not have charity status as that will be further down the line.…
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Selling dried herbs
I organise craft fayres. I've got an elderly lady who sells pot pourri at my fayres who says she wants to start selling a dried version of the home grown herbs from her garden for people to use in their cooking. I said I would try to find out if there are any rules and regs about this but I can't find much. Any ideas?
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Creating a Website
Any recommendation for a free web creation site please? Part personal/part business. Thank you
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Buyer says item not received
Buyer bought an item worth £300. Yodel left it in his porch. The buyer says hes not received. Yodel reject the claim. The buyer says hes going to take me to a small claims court. What should I do?
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Setting Up an ironing Business
Hi Due to my current work relocating and having to leave I am looking at setting up an ironing business from home. I am wondering if I need Public Liability Insurance and Indemnity Insurance? I am wanting to ensure I have insurance incase the customers items become damaged. Finally how would people prefer to be charged, by…
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client not paying, and avoiding our phone calls
We're owed just over £400 from our client who used our AV services. The client is very disorganised, they're from old money and buy/sell lots of "old money stuff" which I wont get into because if I identify what they buy/sell you'll be able to find out who I am referring to with a quick google serch. The stuff they sell is…
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Business expenses (possibly in retrospect)
I have been employed at an international charity until end September 2015. I am now exploring setting up my own business in the UK, for a small business-related consultancy in a developing country. At the moment, I am abroad, spending money from my own pocket doing research and talking to potential clients. My question is:…
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Fake £1 coins?
Just wondering if any other small businesses are having issues with fake £1 coins at the moment? With the food delivery side of the business we take £1 coins all the time and my delivery guys are finding it hard to tell real from fake, especially when they are out in the dark. Ive just counted up ready to take everything…
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Accounts for chalet rental
Hi - please can someone help?! With some friends, we co-own a holiday chalet which we rent out. We purchased the chalet last year - do we include the actual purchase price of the chalet in our self-assessment return? Also, for the purpose of self-assessment, when you begin accounts for a new tax year, do you carry forward…
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Disciplinary meetings question
I rang ACAS as I have to discipline two of my care staff for selling tobacco to a disabled client. One obtained it, gave it to the other, who returned the cash the same way! I forgot to ask ACAS whether, when I invite the staff members separately to disciplinary meetings (most likely ending in dismissal), can I stipulate…
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our copyright on photos?
Maybe someone on here can give advice...OH has many photographs he took in the 70s as he was a professional photographer. Some he put on his blog and he now had requests from authors who want to use them in a book or on a book cover. - How much is copyyright worth if he sells it for single use? I'm aware that there must be…
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accounting and vehicles
small biz here always done my own simple accounts but have just got a new vehicle on php. What is the correct method of offsetting against tax as I am finding varied answers online. Am i right in thinking its 40% allowance for business use with php? confused but don't want to spend 500 quid on accountant..
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An easy way to calculate Electric costs?
Another of these very basic things - but is there an EASY formula for calculating how much of your home electric you can say is for business purposes, to put in the expenses box on forms? Example is 20% of electric cost a reasonable percentage of electric use to put on expenses for a home based business that uses a…