No cost/low cost local marketing
An extract from my second book, Power Climb: Growing Your Small Business which was published in 2012. There are also usually opportunities to increase your visibility, at little or no cost, in the local community. For example taxhelp.uk.com are supporters
Regular client contact
An extract from my second book, Power Climb: Growing Your Small Business which was published in 2012. Keeping in touch with clients is important, particularly now in the current economic climate when competitors may be cutting back. You may choose
What exactly do you do?
An extract from my second book, Power Climb: Growing Your Small Business which was published in 2012. When it comes to new business there’s a common mistake people can fall into – not being specific in what they are looking
Sales & Marketing
An extract from my second book, Power Climb: Growing Your Small Business which was published in 2012. Who works in sales & marketing? You do. If you are like many business owners, you started your business to do the things
HMRC’s Health and Wellbeing Tax Plan
HMRC has recently announced another campaign, the Health and Wellbeing tax plan is as the name suggests targeting those working in the fields of health and wellbeing. The campaign runs from 7 October 2013 to 6 April 2014, and will
Branding
An extract from my second book, Power Climb: Growing Your Small Business which was published in 2012. You may think it’s a bit ‘back to front’ starting the book with a section on branding, indeed you could be thinking that
Denbies event – October 2013
Last week I was at Denbies Vineyard in Dorking, Surrey: After a vineyard tour for our guests, I spoke on tax issues and we also had an adviser talking about pensions and investments: To finish the formal presentations we engaged
New series – extracts from my second book, Power Climb
I will be running a series of extracts from my second book, Power Climb: Growing Your Small Business which was published in 2012. Look out for these on the blog, they are also categorised under ‘Power Climb’ for easy location
Changes to capital allowances on cars used in the business
Following on from my posting last week, there are some new considerations for the 2013/14 tax return year. The emissions rate to qualify for the full capital allowance rate is reduced from 160g to 130g. – cars with emissions below
Business mileage and leasing cars
For many self-employed people the most expensive asset used in their business is a motor vehicle. With business use there are a couple of options when it comes to tax relief: 1) Claim a flat rate 45p/mile allowance on the
The 31st October HMRC tax return deadline
Whilst this applies to the submission of paper tax returns to HMRC, there are several advantages to completing the personal tax return now rather than waiting right until the final tax deadline in January: 1) You will know exactly what
I’ve added a site map page
With over 430 posts now, and an increasing number of pages, a site map enables easy searching through the site to reach exactly what you are looking for. The site map can be located at: http://ryu.ilc.mybluehost.me/taxhelp.uk.com/site-map You can also reach
