Recent content by Dave-PG

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    Help With VAT in Spain

    Hi, we are a UK company that has sells advertising space on our website We have previously done this by telephone from the UK and have been able to reverse charge VAT to EU countries with all sales being a 'service' to people 'in business' under the UK VAT guidelines. However, we are now...
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    Taking On Sales Representatives in Spain

    Hi, I wonder if anybody can help me. We are a UK company that has traditionally sold website advertising all over the world from our UK office. We are now looking to contract out to Sales Representatives living in Spain and the Canary Islands on a self-employed contract basis. They are...
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    Risk of Non-Performance

    Hi, we are a small company and looking at going into contract with a major player in an associated market. The contract is very lucrative, however, we have to guarantee against non-performance. Does anyone know the best way to go about this as we have nowhere near the amount of money to cover...
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    Accountancy Bills

    Hi everybody Thank you very much for your advice. I am going to send the new company a letter saying I had a verbal agreement of £250 and I have never been notified of any change. I will let you know how things go.
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    Accountancy Bills

    Hi, When we set up in business two years ago, we chose a firm of accountants who quoted us approximately £250 to do y/e accounts if we did all the pre-work (profit & loss, running cash balance etc.) which we did using Quick Books. Our first years accounts duly cost us £250 however they have...
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    Anyone used UK Angel Investment Network

    I agree. Our problem was 'investors' who started to want us to part with money halfway down the process. We were sceptical because it seemed too easy to get a yes in the first instance. In the end they turned out not to be investors.
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    Anyone used UK Angel Investment Network

    I fully understand that - I wouldn't in your position either. I was talking about the website ukinvestmentnetwork.co.uk not having any contact numbers. It becomes quite frustrating when you have suspicions about an investor and can't get in touch with the company you have paid to find and vet...
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    Anyone used UK Angel Investment Network

    I joined this site. It seems to me that there is no vetting of investors so you don't know which investors are genuine or scammers. I have been contacted by two investors - one who then got banned from their site and another wo looks to be scamming money out of people looking for investment...
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    Looking for Investment

    Thanks for your advice. We have really good exit scenatios so I don't mid that. My own idea is to have moved the business on within 3/5 years.
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    Looking for Investment

    We have been running our own company for two years now and decided we would need to go out for investment a couple of months ago. We have scraped and penny-pinched for two years while building the backbone of the company and have got to where we are now at a fraction of the cost of our...