Recent content by ultrahertz

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    Rackspace or someone else for a managed VPS Solution

    Rackspace are okay. They do have £30 free credit per month as a developer offer at the moment though, which lasts for about 6 months. Don't go creating a server expecting it to be different to a KVM/Xen instance.. Create an AutoScaling group and configure the Scaling alarms, it'll add more...
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    New formation to simplify VAT registration?

    I'm fairly convinced that I'm okay as far as the partitioning goes, what I'm really looking at, is the fact my mother quite literally inherited my dad's self-employed status. Is it not still the case that sole traders can offset losses from any year against this years tax? This is the only...
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    New formation to simplify VAT registration?

    Fully understand your point, and I should have perhaps explained the situation a little better. Since my Father's death, my mother's been running it purely in order to keep 1 particular employee in work, she's been a housewife all her life and has no desire to start getting into business now...
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    New formation to simplify VAT registration?

    Never too late, and many thanks for the response. After an astonishingly busy Xmas, it'll be mid January before I'm able to sort it all out, as I'm also my own materials/consumables supplier, and I'm not sure how that will affect proceedings.
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    New formation to simplify VAT registration?

    Thanks for the reply, Scalloway, very much appreciated.
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    New formation to simplify VAT registration?

    To cut a long story short, my dad ran a decorating business for about 40 years until his death last year, he was VAT registered and employed 6 - 12 staff for most of the years, reduced to 2 (plus himself) as he 'wound down' with age. My mother's been running the business since then. She...