Use of home as an office for companies

From here

https://www.gov.uk/tax-relief-for-employees/working-at-home

If you’ve agreed with your employer to work at home voluntarily, or you choose to work at home, you cannot claim tax relief on the bills you have to pay.If you’ve agreed with your employer to work at home voluntarily, or you choose to work at home, you cannot claim tax relief on the bills you have to pay.
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What would you expect to see on a website footer

Not just trust signals



My line of business has a lot of small cottage industries that do not seem to keen to avail themselves of even the most basic e-commerce regulations. The worst I have found is calling themselves 'Limited' when they are not.

Nothing wrong with that
This simply means
"No job too small but many too big " !
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Selling art

Good morning. Back at this now, just been tied up for a couple of days getting the films outputted for a couple of new print releases i'm getting ready and also trying to sort out some technical issues on a new laptop which i'm going to be using just for the marketing side of things so i don't have the constant distraction of the social media side of things on the main machine i use for creating all the artwork, a bit of separation will be helpful for internet saturated mind!....

Facebook - i agree probably has a huge audience who would be receptive to my work. I will try and add a few examples onto this post so you can get an idea of what i produce. I did used to use it a few years ago before it all become monetized. i randomly added as many people as possible eve if i didn't have any connection with them and start from there. i did quite well with and sold to a good amount but found after a while i had gone as far as i could in terms of reach. Maybe it just wasn't my skill set and so gave up it eventually. However i know now if you pay to reach more people its possible to gain new audiences to may well give this a try. The other route i's considering is bing - i have £100 worth of free credits on there available if i sign up for that and then there is obviously google ads.

The art world is a funny one. It covers the extremes from the Damien Hirst cow in formaldehyde type pieces to wall art and printmaking which is my area. Although my work is born out of a obsessive experimental approach in terms of the processes i use i wont be considering sawing in half the studio's resident staffordshire bull terrier and casting him in resin. Its work that people can understand and seems to have broad appeal. So i don't believe i have to go strictly down gallery route or anything like that move what i make which i see as a positive to be honest. A little bit of what i do goes out this way but if i can i'd be much happier doing this independently.

I'll pop a few samples up below if i can work out how to do it today so you can see what i do at least.

one final point i missed - instagram i do use every now and again - randomly tagging the images for a total scatter bomb approach and it does bring in some sales. its very random as i say but works!
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Page resources couldn't be loaded in Search Console

Surely if the tool was that bad Google would let us know?

There are a few issues noted here (like the recent accidental de-indexing of 10% of the web)
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6211453?hl=en

Regrettably, search console is a free resource that's widely used and Google are relying on its users to debug something that's been rolled-out a year before it should have been.
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Cannot afford pending corporation tax bill

Was the £13,500 in last year's figure or this year's?

If it's last year's, then you've effectively overstated your profit by £13,500, and therefore your corporation tax is about £2600 higher than it should be (assuming you're paying 19%). If your bill is £1500, I'd assume that £13500 loss would wipe out any profit.

If it's this year's, are you likely to make a profit? If not, then any loss can be carried back to last year and used to reduce your corporation tax bill.

(I'm not an accountant. It would be worth you speaking to one though)
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Payments on Account (Something different maybe?)

Strange isn't it that such a large amount of money can cause a headache, however all i have done is worry about it since i was given the opportunity to earn it. Not actually about the money, more about the one off hit of moneys impact on my earnings next year, and tax obligation etc.

Don't worry about it. Should be just one year tax hit, payable by the extra.
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VAT question - commission

Could I not make it clear the price is in 2 parts?

Basically it’s a piece of software, the £2 is to access the system and the rest is the workers money. I thought about having the business pay the worker themselves but I’m trying to limit ways people and the businesses can abuse the system.

Why do you feel that would make any difference?

When you say £3 is the 'workers money' what exactly do you mean?

What exactly are the arrangements between you and these people?
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micro entity accounts

No idea as I do not know what software you are using.

If you are using the joint Companies House/HMRC submission then agents cannot use that, and so I have no experience of where the claim is to be entered.

Perhaps you could call a helpline and advise that you are trying to claim "sideways relief of a trading loss against rental profits" and they can then guide you.
No idea as I do not know what software you are using.

If you are using the joint Companies House/HMRC submission then agents cannot use that, and so I have no experience of where the claim is to be entered.

Perhaps you could call a helpline and advise that you are trying to claim "sideways relief of a trading loss against rental profits" and they can then guide you.

Thank you i think i understand it now it askes you do you want to claim against losses this period just tick yes and it does it for you although we made a small profit the trading losses for period were far greater it shows losses brought forward then then the rent taken from it . but i thought it was taking from our losses from before so in three years i would loose all our losses and have to pay this corp tax . But i think im right in saying id have to make a lot more profit first .I have been thinking would i be better of as a sole trader
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Unpaid Overtime

I said that months ago, if you're not being paid, why do it?

If they stopped doing it, they'd either pay them to do it, or get more staff. But they made them feel guilty about other staff being laid off, and went along with it... now the staff they helped by working unpaid are getting paid a higher rate of overtime, no bonus, thank you or anything.

Suppose I see it differently running a business. Think this is the final straw and OT will stop.
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