Recent content by fergywales

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    Advice on Accountants Fees

    I pay just over £1,200 to my accountant for EOY Accounts, payroll throughout the year and ad hoc advice. I handle balance sheet and cash book listing through the year and then just email the lot over. With regards to the VAT return, why would you pay someone to do it, providing you'll (by my...
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    VAT & invoices

    Silky, my accounts department invoice for advertising "at the earliest point from distribution and circulation beginning" eg as soon as it's back from print. However, I have been known to have certain publications at certain times invoiced ahead of schedule, such as raising invoices for December...
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    Question re. charging late payment interest on multiple invoices

    Regarding the collection of the interest, the way I have done it since the legislation came into effect is that on the monthly emailed/posted account statement, sub-line that months interest on ALL outstanding over 30 day debt, then add this figure to total outstanding. Once they see the figure...
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    Claims against banks for harassment

    as edbk1203 outlined, minus my mortgage, I have about £45k unsecured personal debt, but, I have the income to pay it off and, should I have to, the opportunity to clear about half in one go if push came to shove. It's all about affordability. In my way of thinking, If I want it, I'll have it...
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    Directors and shareholders names on companys

    In a word, no, however you can use a correspondence address I believe, if you do not want to reveal your home address. Can I ask why you would look to do something under an alias? Smells fishy if you don't mind me adding.
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    newpaper advertisment

    playful, please take the below as constructive comment, from someone within the printed media industry, on a sales then a publishing company ownership level. 1. Marketing via print is a cumulative process. I have lost count of the amount of small minded SME businesses that have taken a single...
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    Owing the VATman!

    silvermouse, if you have indeed not made payments for 4 consecutive quarterly returns, pat yourself on the back for surviving so long, but now expect to pay the price. Even worse is the fact that you claim to have used the money for "daily living expenses" as you were working less. If you tell...