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Alternative address to receive deliveries
Good day everyone, I am searching for a service that provides an address(Preferably cheap) where I can order and have any letters, packages and deliveries deliveried and collected there. Royal Mail as it costs £30.50 per month, £165 6 months or £300 12 months https://www.royalmail.com/business/manage-mail/po-box I have a…
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Best way to reduce tax on buying a company car?
My car has packed in. I own a limited company. I've heard if you buy a pickup
that 100% can go against a company business and electric vehicles. When I've done research, it says
electric cars get 100% return of money only if its new. Can you recoop 100% of an electric car’s costs? Could I finance an electric car say tesla…
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Domain names and web hosting
Rookie questions re setting up a website. The .co.uk name I'm interested in is available (according to a GoDaddy search). I am shockingly bad with tech... and have pretty empty pockets so can't employ a contractor to set up a site for me. 1. How do I buy a domain name without signing my life away? If I buy the domain from…
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Directors resigning after short time - genuine reason?
Hi. Hoping someone on here can give me an answer. I've been looking up a company that started up and within a few weeks two out of three directors resigned. The director who is still there was involved with another new company with these other directors and all three resigned around the same time after a few weeks. One was…
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Simple excel accounts sheets
Hi, I'm expecting to do some consultancy work this year so, my accounts will be simple, income from one source and expenses. Can anybody recommend a (preferably free) excel based accounts sheet that I can use to keep that will help me calculate my profit? TIA
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GDPR breach?
Hi, Quick question. I know companies have a right to pass your information onto a debt collection agency when you're in debt as per your contract... But, if they pass on your details to a debt collection agency when you do not have any debt, is this a breach of GDPR? As they have no legitimate purpose to pass on personal…
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Buying an existing business.
Evening all. Hope everyone is well. Does anyone out there have any experience with buying existing up and running businesses please? I've been toying with setting up my own business but have come across a couple of up and running businesses and am toying with the idea of this instead. I have loads of questions from funding…
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Online 'fintech' accountants
Just recently started a new business and have decided to look at 'online' accountants rather than the family accountant I've used in the past I know that my accounts (historically and with the new business) are likely to be very straight forward and I won't need much of a personal service. The ones I have found online are…
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Commission re Business Rates Appeal
What is the amount of % commission (approximately) do companies charge if they negotiate a successful Business Rates reduction with the local Council?
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Small business Ripped off!
Logic vending sold me a machine and put it on a hire agreement it seems although hi was told it was a lease to buy as I would own the machine at the end. Looking through the paperwork there isn any mention of the actual cost of the machine or the APR - obviously covid has hit hard so we have been going through any…
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Wooden chairs to donate
Hi, does anyone know if there are any charities (or other organisations) that you know of who would be interested in about 100 wooden chairs no longer needed at a church? I assume not but asking just in case.
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PAYROLL GIVING vs GIFT AID
Purely from a tax perspective, is there any difference between payroll giving and gift aid?
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Giving away a business !
My father had a roofing business which started in 1978, my brother worked with him from the age of 15 this was back in the 1980s, leaving school in them days early was accepted I guess. The business grew to a real money maker due to there reputation. I must admit even though they charged more for a flat roof customers were…
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Selling Pick & Mix Sweets Online
Hi all, At the beginning of this year my wife started up her own wax melt business, and is doing ok. She wanted to branch out and has an idea that will go with her brand selling pick & mix sweets. Where do we start on this? We are going to buy them wholesale and just repackage and send out, but we are not sure what rules…
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Old duvets
Can any charities reuse duvet, pillows and blankets? I’m in S Devon. Thanks
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Self employed - how to account for tax paid in Quickbooks?
Hi All! I have made my tax payment for last years accounts, and as it has come up on Quickbooks as a transaction to review. Should i mark this as business or personal? There is a business category for tax but this is counting it as an allowable expense which doesn't seem right? Thanks for your help!
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Getting an overdue invoice paid!
Without going into too much detail- Husband worked as a subcontractor for a larger building firm on a "per week" basis, labour only. He had to travel a fair way but got offered a long run of work closer to home, so advised the contractor that he was going to go and work on another job. The building firm then arranged to…
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Importing an order whilst still on Universal Credits
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this question but I just need a bit of advice and I haven't been able to find any elsewhere as of yet! I am looking to make a small order of products from abroad, I'm not currently working and am on UC but it is something I would like to start doing, my question is simply…
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Can you scale up business to quickly
Hi, Will admit I'm also just as much curious as about when you should scale up a business, aware that some businesses don't last 2 years. I work for a very small company in a saturated industry in a basic role, whilst it is coming up to surviving it's 1st year, some days busy, others far from, it is not phones ringing of…
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Advice please: How to find UK manufactures of a recycled plastics product idea to make prototypes?
Hi, Can anyone point me in the right direction please. I have a product idea I would like to try and make happen. I have had many ideas of the past 20 years but never the finances to go with the idea. Many of my ideas have come to pass but 10- 20 years after I have thought of them and written them down in my ideas book.…
