Happy new year! The start of another tax year is customarily greeted by a) daffs, and b) groans from the vast majority of self-employed people. Where are those train receipts? Who was the person I took out to lunch 8 months ago…and why? What is that PC World receipt for? Why can I only find
READ MORE >Posted on 06 April 2010
As we head towards the end of another financial year it’s time to consider what’s on the horizon for small businesses like you and me, and how much Ryman’s makes on those portable metal file holders we keep all our paperwork in. First off, there’s a budget coming up, which always means a flurry of
READ MORE >Posted on 19 March 2010
One of the parts of my business skills workshops that people enjoy the most is a simple exercise called ‘match the expense to the tax return’. OK – so it’s not exactly a catchy title for a game, but it’s more fun than it sounds. This financial year the tax people (HMRC) have changed a
READ MORE >Posted on 09 July 2008
One of the reason people hate filing so much is that they’d rather be doing something more exciting. Unfortunately if you run your own business and have an office at home you can’t avoid it. The trick is to make the filing so easy that you can’t put it off. Don’t use filing cabinets for
READ MORE >Posted on 26 June 2007
One of the thing I love about the small business training is meeting so many people with great stories to tell. I’ll be repeating many of them here, and passing on some great tips for smoothing out the bumps of self-employment. Here’s one which was passed on by someone who’d started her new business at
READ MORE >Posted on 29 April 2007
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