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In the words of Lord Clyde

Jul 25, ’07 5:33 PM

Arctic Systems maybe another example of the aggressive nature of HMRC when pursuing taxpayers, however, Arctic Systems is certainly not the first case in history where the Revenue ‘HMRC’ has pursued a taxpayer for arranging their affairs in a more beneficial manner for taxation purposes. It brings to mind a case many years before I…

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Victory for common sense

Jul 25, ’07 5:03 PM

Today the case of a small husband and wife owned company ‘Arctic Systems’ was finally over. After many years battling against the HMRC attack Geoff and Diana Jones of Arctic Systems Ltd can finally move on, but at what cost? For the last four years, not only accountants and tax advisors, but also many other…

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What can winweb do for you?

Mar 14, ’07 7:14 PM

It struck me today what incredibly good value for money the winweb new pricing structure offers, don’t get me wrong it was well priced before, but now … For £119.88 per year for a single user licence you get a lot for your money, mind you always have, and that’s when I realised, you get…

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Employment legislation headaches

Mar 13, ’07 11:06 AM

In my posting ‘Barriers to growth’ I covered employment regulations being the second barrier to growth, second only to taxation. It’s true that many small businesses find it difficult, if not near impossible to comply with all the regulation that is placed on them when employing staff, and I dare say, most will fall foul…

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Big Words for Small Business

Feb 14, ’07 3:10 PM

At the moment you may have guessed from a recent posting that Stefan is in Australia, ah lucky for some. In his recent post he commented on the Australian government departments lack of understanding about the home based business, and no doubt the smaller owner managed business all together. Interesting, Australia may be a long…

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Road pricing policy

Feb 12, ’07 8:09 PM

You may have all seen in the news recently the petition to have the Prime Minister scrap the planned vehicle tracking and road pricing policy, and you may wonder why on a blog for small business I bring it up, well quite simply put, if this government gets its way then this will be yet…

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Watch out, watch out, the taxman’s about

Jan 10, ’07 2:13 PM

According to recent reports tax inspectors are being offered financial incentives, of up to £2,000, to encourage them to collect more tax. According to a recent article in the Timesonline, tax compliance teams throughout the country have been told to increase the amount of tax that they recover, by one quarter in 2007. The fear…

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New Year, New rules ….

Jan 5, ’07 1:49 PM

Here's a new piece of regulation that will have passed most small business owners by. Having come in on the 1st January 2007, The E-commerce Regulations applies to limited companies with websites and those that use e-mail as a means of communications. The regulations say that every company now has to list its vat registration…

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Wishing everyone a prosperous new year

Jan 3, ’07 5:28 PM

Happy New Year to everyone, and wishing you all a very Prosperous 2007 from all at The Small Business Blog.Due to work/client commitments we at The Small Business Blog may have been quiet over the last month or so but we will be bringing you plenty of fresh views and ideas to help the small…

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£8 billion in online sales, are you getting your share?

Nov 14, ’06 6:48 PM

Online sales is a fast-growing area for businesses of all types, yet so many small businesses are missing the boat, why? Well those helpful people over at bytestart have done it again for the start up and small business, they have arranged a live Webchat with the head of merchant services at PayPal, Carl Olav.…

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