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    British Ex Pat. Can't access Forums from abroad

    As a British Citizen I cannot access this forum from abroad and need an accountant, lawyer, and project co-ordinators. So I am setting up a forum on reddit, is that ok? same name, different name,? Can mods advise, in another third world country again in a couple of days, may not be able...
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    Business rate relief?

    It's still not that clear mate. Might be for people who have experience with this stuff but for those of us who have been freeholders and avoid rents and rates like the plague. Its very grey if you ask me! More questions.... 1) So if I pay £14,500 rent and RV is £14500. 0-12000 is at 100% rent...
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    Business rate relief?

    Thanks that’s helpful but doesn’t quite answer what I am trying to figure out. What I am trying to figure out is if a person is allowed to have more than one business with rent relief? Ie I have two commercial units, one retail, one IT services (ie separate businesses) with their own limited...
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    Business rate relief?

    Hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I am looking to take a commercial lease property approx 650sq ft for approx £21-25 per sq foot with few quid for the service charge. can someone explain business rates for something like this to me ? I am based in Essex. I currently already...
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    Sweest/Crisps/Chocolates/Fizzy Drinks Manufacture needed

    Hi, Hoping someone can give me a contact or a bit of guidance with a new venture that I quite fancy. I run a typical independent grocery store and looking to place some of my own branded products on the shelf for sale, just wondering what sort of margins I could achieve selling my own...
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    Importing vegtables directly from farm in India

    yep your right, thats we need to test it first with some veg that we buy from regular exporters... and then grow our own to a similar standard. Its quite daunting really how much we need to do, but slowly slowly i guess! We're not in a rush
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    Recommend me a printer for day to day use?

    Looks like its still available from abroad, i wouldnt buy this printer again(i dont know what it was replaced by) as the one i have works just find for my needs, if i spent the time on sorting out jams etc. I just cba to sort out the jams anymore
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    Recommend me a printer for day to day use?

    So I have a laser printer Lexmark E232 which has lasted me for nearly 12 year!!! I love this printer to bits as its soo economical and the ink lasts for absolutely forever and the print quality is good. Anyway, its starting to play up every day and i need a solid small printer which is...
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    Importing vegtables directly from farm in India

    Thanks this is really useful info, especially regarding economical routes etc as I am very new to all of this, so I guess the next step is to start speaking to some freight forwarding companies regarding what the price is for shipping around 200Kg of veg... need to confirm what veg first, root...
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    Importing vegtables directly from farm in India

    Hey Darren, this is really helpful thanks. Can I ask how much the difference in price would be air freight compared to sea freight? Also with air, is there usually a minimum volume amount or is it generally more acceptable to have smaller volumes of weight compared to sea because its not a...
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    Importing vegtables directly from farm in India

    So as my handle says, I am in retail and run a typical Grocery CornerShop. My cousin in India runs my farm (about 50acres), times are tough over there and farmers aren't being looked after very well. He makes a good living by India standards but we'd like to explore some other options when it...
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    Import Advice

    Hi Gari I'm in a similar situation but trying to import for different reasons, ie I own farmland in India and want to import vegetables directly from it to UK. Would be very interested in hearing how you get on with this.
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    Good old fashioned leaflets!

    Thanks that's really interesting to know, I take it your in marketing? Do you have a couple of examples of leaflets that you think are excellent? or can you explain what you think makes them excellent? Thanks will deffo pm you. once I figure out how, lol. Cheers
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    Freelancer Web Software Developer where to find new work

    Personally, I am very biased as I used to be a data analyst but don't rule out data science jobs either, its a huge growing market and if you skilled enough to learn R and Pyhthon, in theory you already have the SQL knowledge and there are some 70K-90K jobs out there in data science because of...
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    Good old fashioned leaflets!

    So lets talk leaflets, good old fashioned leaflets. Where are you getting them printed now a days? Is it cheaper to find a company elsewhere than say maintain UK, potentially Ireland etc and get them shipped over to London? I'm looking to be printing off like a 1000-5000 a month and don't...
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