Now that summer holidays are almost over, use that “Back To School” feeling to get your tax affairs in order. This year, the due dates for personal tax returns have changed and the first relevant date is 31 October 2008.
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Selecting an appropriate domain name for your company website has become more difficult in recent years, as the most popular domains were registered a long time ago. For example, if you run a window cleaning business it would be ideal to have www.windowcleaners.com – however the chances of getting a generic domain name like this are slim.
A couple of stories surrounding corporate sponsorship caught our attention this week, casting doubt over its benefits. This should be encouraging to small businesses who cannot afford this sort of promotion, but even you need to trade on your relationships with other businesses.
A new business will require the services of an accountant to help deal with its financial obligations, not least those involving tax and HM Revenue & Customs. The Business Lounge gives some tips on how to choose an accountant.
We’ve looked at running a business as a soletrader. Here we consider the main alternative for a business run by a single entrepreneur, namely a limited company.
Once someone decides to start a business, one of first questions they often ask is whether they should set up a company. A company is one, but not the only way in which to run a business, and here The Business Lounge looks at why the business structure is important, and at the more basic soletrader structure.
The Business Lounge looks at various attempts being made to increase the financial literacy of the UK’s children, and at some of the more light-hearted consequences of the credit crunch.
Income tax, national insurance, VAT – you’ve constantly heard them mentioned, but when might you have to pay them? Here we give a very brief overview of the main taxes.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has released a study discussing what amount of money is needed to maintain a basic, but acceptable, standard of living.
The Business Lounge examines whether the Government’s latest Enterprise Strategy offers any real reasons to be cheerful.
