Recent content by Dutchnick

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    Renting furniture for letting property.

    We have been approached by a company offering to rent us furniture (actually a complete living package) for our two buy to lets and the new one we are in the processing of buying. We certainly need to upgrade one and for the new property it is ideal especially as they have a 5 year replacement...
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    Global Iris payments.

    No, we have formed a UK limited and are moving back to the UK to operate this business
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    Global Iris payments.

    We are about to launch a online database for the UK for a certain profession having run a very successful version elsewhere for some 7 years. We were approached by a major company UK based company to work with them do something similar for the UK. Global Iris payments seemed an obvious payment...
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    Lawyer for UK/Netherlands JV company

    No the actual trading and business is easy and the EU and UK laws connected with that are almost(!) easy. It is things like the articles and memorandum of Assn. etc that become very expensive to have translated. As the UK partners are a large outfit we are keen they should lead as they are more...
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    Lawyer for UK/Netherlands JV company

    It would appear that using a UK Ltd Co in the Netherlands is not a problem but we are concerned that both parties are happy. We need a UK lawyer to advise in the differences between a UK Ltd and a Dutch BV. So far we have only found giant international law firms who's charges are approaching the...
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    Simple? Is it!

    I have registered a UK Ltd to receive a once per year a dividend cheque. After various costs I will have the balance as my income. I assume that that on drawing that balance from the company it will count as income and should be the amount that I declare as such. I am not UK resident, will I...
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    UK Ltd operating in The Netherlands

    We are about to start a business with a much larger UK partner. We were intending to form a Dutch BV but the UK company has now insisted that we form a UK Ltd. My shareholding will be held by my own UK resident Ltd company. The business will be operated in the Netherlands and make return as a NL...
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    What should be expected from Press release

    I have always had a total aversion to advertising as it seems to cost so much and has seldom been that effective. I have relied on press releases and have done very well in three successive businesses. There are several golden rules and remember every publication is actually looking for some...
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    How can I do to attract more customers to visit my shop?

    Web site certainly, site optimisation can help, you can try it yourself following certain rules but there are some clever people out there!. We use press releases to very great effect but do not confuse making an ad with a press release. Remember 'dog bites man' is' not a story, 'man bites dog'...
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    5 Ways To Get Britain On Its Feet Again

    The property crisis, and it is that, has seriously distorted the economy and suborns what should be rational decisions. House prices in Germany are so much lower in comparison with the UK so that moving to a new job etc is easy and mobility is not a problem nor is finance. We need therefore to...
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    Printing. how to do it?

    I work for a Professional Building Consultancy in the Belgium. We produce a trade hand book of around 2500 copies per year. We are now being asked to join a large grouping and we would become responsible for around a total of 50,000 copies in 22 different languages over year by the end of year...