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The financing channel looks at the different small business funding options available to start-up companies and established SME businesses looking to grow. Read a wealth of guides and tips to help manage your accounts and cash flow better, views on the future of business banking and where to source alternative finance.

Tax and NI for a hairdressing business

I am working full-time until my mobile hairdressing business establishes itself. What tax and national insurance should I be saving?

Accounting

Small Business Banking

Refinance your business 

Refinancing, if successful, can transform a company, not only by providing the funds it needs on terms which are not going to choke it, but also by opening a relationship with sources of support, expertise and useful contacts.

Accounting

How to reduce your tax bill

Death and taxes may be the only certain things in life – but there are ways of minimising the impact of the latter.

Small Business Banking

Bank loans for small businesses

Banks are beginning to post healthy profits again, but SMEs say they are still being hit hard by lending terms. Here we speak to entrepreneurs, analysts and bankers to find out the reality of credit conditions.

Accounting

Six ways to keep HMRC happy

Tax is a headache at the best of times, let alone during a recession. Express Tax Solutions’ Parvinder Kaur offers six tips to avoid getting into hot water with HMRC.

Alternative finance

How to raise angel finance

Business angels are those lucky types with enough cash to consider investing in early-stage businesses. SmallBusiness.co.uk speaks to owner-managers who never would have got their business off the ground without angel finance.

Alternative finance

Finding alternative funding for your industry

Until the economy returns to a position of normality and bank lending picks up again, SMEs are seeking alternative sources of finance.

Small Business Banking

Bad credit rating

I have been refused a business bank account due to bad credit history. At present I do not have debt other than my mortgage. What should I do?

Alternative finance

Finding alternative funding for your industry

Until the economy returns to a position of normality and bank lending picks up again, SMEs are seeking alternative sources of finance.

Small Business Banking

Bad credit rating

I have been refused a business bank account due to bad credit history. At present I do not have debt other than my mortgage. What should I do?

Accounting

Owner’s salary

How can I increase my fixed salary when the business starts to make a profit?

Alternative finance

Alternative sources of financing

Bhodi Sunth, director at finance company Azure Global, outlines the options available when you need to raise funds.

Alternative finance

Loving angels instead

Despite the efforts of Evan Davis and his Dragons, many start-up businesses are unaware of the existence of small-scale equity investors, such as business angels.

Government Grants

What business grants are available for a small business?

I run a butcher’s shop and am looking for a small grant in order to print some leaflets and advertise the business. What types are available?

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