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Sole trader account vs Business account vs Personal Current Account || Self-employed
Hey folks, hope you
are doing well. I am writing this post regarding the most suitable type of bank account for a sole trader who is running a small creative business (brand identities, logotypes, explainer videos etc.) I had read on HMRC forums that is not obligatory for a sole trader to have a separate bank account for…
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Is Square the most affordable card payment for a small biz? || Self-employed
Hey folks, hope you
are doing well. I am writing regarding the most affordable card payment in the UK. I have been looking for a while some a card payment options for small biz (sole trader), mainly due to some enquires from the previous clients. It seems that square option, with an availability to use on-to-go, is a quite…
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Catch 22
I run a bakery which was due to close on March 31st.
Both the other employees have been made redundant and I am due to go self
employed on the 1st of April. There has been no income for 3 weeks,
and none expected for the next few months. The furlough employee support although back dated won’t be
available until after the…
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Sole trader then employed - help please
Hi folks Just wondering if I could get a bit of advice please? In Sep 2019, I took voluntary redundancy. In November 2020 I set up as a sole trader and made around £3000 between then and now. I didn't register with HMRC as I know you have until 5th October 2020 to notify them. I'm due to start a new job at the end of March…
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Charity Event legalities....
Hello I am hoping you can help. I am organising a charity event in the summer but I need a
bit of guidance and pointers in relation to the legal side of it. I have looked
on Google and it’s a bit of minefield. The event is quite simple – it’s a jumble trail. People hold
garage/yard sales on their own property on the given…
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Moved: Coronavirus Impact on Self-Employed
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izettle - charging commission to top-up account for refunds
Just contacted izettle about how to top up the account balance to refund all of our customers who are cancelling their bookings at our small boutique b&b business. Turns out the only way to do this is by a card transaction and therefore pay commission on the top-up! Anyone else having the same issue (I assume so)?
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Moved: Self Employed Help during this Crisis
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Moved: Sole Director Limited Company- how do I manage redundancy/lay off linked to Covid 19?
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Managing Small business Cashflow || Self-employed
Hey folks, hope you are doing well. I have a question regarding good cashflow practices? Do you know any useful resources aka courses, books, webinars which will be helpful to improve cashflow practices from point of view a sole trader? Thank you so much for
any support you can give and I appreciate your time Kind regards,…
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Moved: Cookery School - Coronavirus Cancellation Policy
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ICO Data Protection Fee
Hi Everyone, My wife who has started a small Ltd company business received this letter today: Is it legitimate? It seems poorly written and does not use her name, just publicly available company house information. Thanks
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New Business
Hey folks, hope you are doing well. I have been running my own affiliate marketing business now for a few years, which has been great. However i feel i am getting more demotivated as time goes by, most likely as the job is very tedious and alot of computer work. I am not sure if it is my true passion, i find it fairly…
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Possible Change from Self Employment to Employed
One of my clients are considering making a job offer. If I were to accept this, and after filing the last return as self employed, I'm not sure if it is worth staying on self assessment & completing future returns with a zero income. Although I'm not likely to have any self employed income, it would provide the…
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Free Client database softwar
I'm a sole trader, small turnover and I'm looking for some way to manage my clients. I'm after software for... Customer details - Group/ Site/ contact/ phone/ email/ payment terms - normal stuff A way to mailshot - emails/ post Diary - Meetings/ next contact Notes - what we discussed Invoicing Accounting The above list is…
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New business fear
I have a virtual assistant business which I’m planning on starting soon. It’s a trial run for now to see how it goes that I’ve been researching for the business plan for almost a year but when looking into insurance (specialist insurance for the sector) I saw you are insured up to £3m (can go higher for your types of…
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Ideas on how to grow a business
Hello A little bit more information on myself and my thinking- I'm an electrician I work for a company at the moment full time , I do a few jobs outside work for friends and family however I've recently had a bit of interest through word and mouth with people asking me to do work for them. I'm looking towards the next step…
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Employing first employee
Hi All We are looking at employing our first employee (my sister). What are the things we need to do? Our acccountant will sort out payroll and auto enrol with NEST, thanks.
