If you are happy to do so I suggest a letter from your accountant or give them your Unique Tax Payer reference (UTR) which HM Revenue & Customs will have advised you of when you registered as self employed.
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Your VAT Registration Certificate should have your personal name on it, unless you are a Limited Company, then it would have the name of the Limited Company.
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.... guess is begs the question; what is a sole trader anyway. A person who derives income from his|her own efforts and prefers to use 'none de plume' as it were. True they are in business but don't own a business per say.
Wikipedia: A business (also known as enterprise or firm) is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit or state-owned. A business owned by multiple individuals may be referred to as a company, although that term also has a more precise meaning.
that's that then
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instead of asking us what you can provide, why not ask them what they would accept as proof. If they are that bothered that you are a sole trader (and i can't think of any reason why it makes a difference, apart from credit and surely if this was the case the credit search would show your status anyway) then they will probably be wanting to see something in particular.
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Back in the day I applied for a cash and carry Makro card where you had to prove that you were a business. I think I just showed a letter headed letter and referred to my business entry in the Yellow pages.
Here is an excerpt from Google search for their latest requirements:
"How do I get a Makro account? You will need a trade card membership to shop at one of our Makro branches. To qualify for a card you will need to be in business, self-employed, a registered charity, or an OFSTED registered school or child minder/organisation with a business bank account."
Here is an excerpt from Google search for their latest requirements:
"How do I get a Makro account? You will need a trade card membership to shop at one of our Makro branches. To qualify for a card you will need to be in business, self-employed, a registered charity, or an OFSTED registered school or child minder/organisation with a business bank account."
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no thats another story... this is to verify business account
my appeal has not been accepted. Then after I requested to take the dispute to the CEDR (which they themselves advise people to use) for online dispute resolution, they took 5 months and several attempts to contact them to finally get back to me and refuse the request.... I wonder why..... It because they know they are wrong.... all I have to do is show the resolution a video or live stream of the app working and its case closed and win for me.
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when you say worked for us, do you mean you have used this document to verify sole trader business with Google?
The problem with a letter from HMRC is that they most likely will reject it because the addressed to name on that document/letter will be your personal name and will not match the developer name used for the account with google
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The problem there is "speak to a Google representative".
If you are lucky to get through on one of their phone numbers, first you will have to wait over 2 hours, if you havent given up by then, then you will be confronted by a customer service operator in hydrabad, india who wont have a clue how to help you, but will be very polite and tell you they will get back to you.
When they back to you by email they wont have answered any of your questions, they will give you the same information they started off with which wasnt helpful, hence youve been sent round in a circle.
When you email them, replies you get are as though they are from AI, bots or copy/paste templates responses. You can test this by asking a specific question, in their replies they will avoid answering that question by giving a generalised answer like 'We have given you all the information we could in our previous email to you, thanks for your understanding"
I mean I could post the replies i got from them, it was over the span of about 2-3 weeks and we just went round in circles, but I was also offered information which wasnt true (checked with their support forums). Then the support stafff decided to stop replying.
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Mr Starmer says this on the government website:
www.gov.uk
Set up a business
Choosing a legal structure when you're starting a business: the differences between being a sole trader and a limited company, including legal risk, registration and taxes.
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Hello,
This should come from your accountant.
If they are completing your self assessment they should also be producing sole trader accounts for you with an accountants report, and this should be signed.
Together with this they should also provide the SA302, tax summary.
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Daniel Griffith FCA
This should come from your accountant.
If they are completing your self assessment they should also be producing sole trader accounts for you with an accountants report, and this should be signed.
Together with this they should also provide the SA302, tax summary.
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Daniel Griffith FCA
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