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Bookkeepers Can Be Bad For Your Business Health!
I spend a lot of my time telling people they need a good bookkeeper to help them look after their business. But recently I have seen really vivid examples of how a bad bookkeeper can seriously damage a business. From bad work, incomplete work, unjustified work and unnecessary work all mixed in with no support and no accountability. The problem facing business people is how to know a good bookkeeper from a bad bookkeeper?
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Newsletters Are Being Well Received
Just a quick post today to advise everyone that the new series of Tax Tips and News newsletters being sent out on the 1st day of each month are becoming very popular with readers and makes the whole exercise worthwhile for me! All you have to do
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Seminars – What A Pain In The Ear!
I was all excited last week to be heading off to an internet marketing seminar in a posh hotel in Leeds. I arrived early on an overcast morning and as the seminar got underway the temperature outside started climbing. I was engrossed in what Ed was telling us and never noticed how wet I was getting from perspiration. By lunch I was dripping but fortunately the content kept my attention away from just how hot I was getting – but by the close I knew there was something not right with me. Over the next day or so my temperature started to rise and by the end of the week I was in agony with an ear infection.
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Santander – New Mortgage Rules Suck
It seems everything has changed with this huge Bank – that own a few of our banks here – Alliance & Leicester being the one in question today – since the budget last month.
A client of mine recently applied for a mortgage with them. His income was well over their minimum requirements, he has a perfect credit history and has had significant savings with the bank for more than 10 years.
You would think they’d jump at the chance to give him a mortgage…..
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Budget – 2010
Most people will now have heard the relevant bits of the budget given in Parliament today by the Chancellor, and lots of labour reaction to it. On balance I feel it was a very good budget given the circumstances. The rise in VAT will be unpopular but at least this brings us more into line with the rest of Europe. It has been 19.6% in France for some years and they are coping with it – so will we.
At least all the doom and gloom mongers that have been raging in the the media these past weeks about huge and sweeping changes to Capital Gains Tax were proved wrong
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