What is the Valuation Office Agency? A guide for small business
What is the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) and how does it go about calculating your business rates? What happens if you disagree with the VOA rateable value calculation?
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What is the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) and how does it go about calculating your business rates? What happens if you disagree with the VOA rateable value calculation?
Accounting
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Some small businesses can pay heavily discounted business rates or even reduce them to zero. Read on to see if your small business is exempt from business rates
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Nearly half of the workforce was working from home at the height of Covid. But do you need to pay business rates if you’re working from home?
Accounting
As a small business, it’s important to get your head around company finances in order to maximise profits and margins. This handy guide will talk you through small business bookkeeping and small company accounting and help you get started!
Accounting
The EU is expanding the ‘one-stop’ system for reporting and paying VAT across the bloc to include all distance sales of services and intracommunity sale of goods. The updated schemes are together known as the EU VAT E-commerce Package. What does it mean for UK businesses and how can you adapt?
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Kwasi Kwarteng, the business secretary, says HMRC will not press businesses to pay overdue tax immediately if they’re struggling with coronavirus-related debt
Accounting
For a small business, handling your payroll is tricky at the best of times, but the coronavirus pandemic and emergence of hybrid working have complicated matters further. Here’s how you can get it right first time
Accounting
Commercial debt recovery: how can I help myself and what do I need from a third-party collections business?
Accounting
For a small business, handling your payroll is tricky at the best of times, but the coronavirus pandemic and emergence of hybrid working have complicated matters further. Here’s how you can get it right first time
Accounting
Commercial debt recovery: how can I help myself and what do I need from a third-party collections business?
Accounting
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Accounting
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UK small businesses face having to register for VAT in each EU country they sell direct to, which could cost tens of thousands of pounds for the privilege of paying tax in Europe
Accounting
New standard form offers SMEs same protection from creditors as big companies who trigger Company Voluntary Arrangements (CVAs)
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