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The Pre-Budget Report 2008

25-Nov-08

Well that is it, we have now had the Pre-Budget Report 2008.

From 1 December 2008 VAT to be reduced from 17.5% to 15%, but only for a 13 month period, small business given extra time to pay their tax bills, a delay in increasing the small business rate of corporation tax to 22%, but only until 2010.

Then we have increases in 2011 in National Insurance, a 0.5% increase for both employee and employer.

Higher rate taxpayers will see personal allowances cut (for those earning over £100,000) and eliminated (for those earning over £140,000). In addition, there will be a new 45% rate for those earning over £150,000.

I am sure you can work out how this affects you without me putting it into print.

For our Pre-Budget Report 2008 please click here or to view any of the previous Budget and Pre-Budget Reports including yesterdays please visit our Budget page on our main website.

 

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Accountants are the preferred advisors for small business

21-Nov-08

New research carried out by The Forum of Private Business in the UK revealed that small firms trust their accountants more than their bank managers when it comes to seeking financial advice, with the majority admitting to seeking such advice fewer than four times per year.

Well this is not really news to me, but what has surprised me about this research was to find out that of the 400 businesses that were surveyed a staggering 36% say they have not had contact with their accountant in the last year, but more worrying from my view point is that 24% quoted the reason for this being either a lack of faith in their advisers’ knowledge of their businesses or the fact that they have received poor advice in the past.

I have in the past given guidance on how to choose an accountant, but for those who are still wondering, firstly if you know someone in business who has high regard for their advisor and who obviously get good advice and support then go see them, but also meet others, I would always advise you meet three different accountants, and don’t make your choice on price alone and finally, ensure they a suitably qualified.

 

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Business’09 -Unleash It! Challenge

17-Nov-08

Business09-win_125.jpgIn 2009 WinWeb will celebrate it’s 15th anniversary by hosting a Business’09 Competition to win £10,000 or an equivalent currency value for small business owners or budding start up business entrepreneurs.

All that is required is that you let WinWeb know what you would do with the money for your business. Would you start your dream business? Start a business from home? Invest it in your current business and finish a long planned project?

The competition started during Global Entrepreneurship Week 2008, the winner will be announced during Global Entrepreneurship Week 2009.

With questions like, ‘How much money do you need to make your business idea work?’, you may come to the conclusion that you only need time to start your business. In which case you could start your business and if you win do some marketing or save the money for a rainy day - it’s all up to you.

WinWeb and it’s Sponsors & Supporters have set themselves a Business’09 -Unleash It! Campaign to be instrumental and inspire at least 1000 new business start-ups in the next twelve months. Are you one of them?

To register your interest in the £10,000 (about $14,000)and the Business’09 campaign go to the website , or for more information go to one of the official Business’09 campaign blogs, the WinWeb Blog or The Small Business Blog. Whatever you do, don’t miss the chance to win in this competition, we know from an inside source that anyone who registers wins a small prize just for registering. The competition is open to anyone world-wide, currently running a business or thinking about starting a business.

Why not sign up to win £10,000, and be inspired to start your business!

PS.: If you are a blogger, please copy this post message, post on your blog and give me a hat-tip (link-back).

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This is funny, or is it …..

13-Nov-08

Thanks to Richard Murphy for this.

 

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Pre-Budget Date announced

13-Nov-08

Finally, we now have a date for the pre-Budget Report 2008, it is Monday 24th November 2008.

Now I guess the only questions are what will be in it to deal with the current economic climate?

 

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Female Entrepreneur

13-Nov-08

Prowess are holing their 6th Annual International Conference in Blackpool commencing 3 March 2009.

Entitled ‘Risk and Reward’ it is billed as the most informative, relevant and FUN event in the women’s enterprise support calendar.

This year prowess are focusing on ‘Risk and Reward’ to ensure female entrepreneurs are given the right support to come through turbulent economic times and excel on the enterprise journey.

For more on this please click here.

 

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What else have I been up to?

11-Nov-08

The following link is to a recent article I have written for Nursery Industry, if you are in the nursery trade then I am sure you will already subscribe to what is the only UK trade publication, and if you don’t subscribe maybe you should?

Article: So what if there is a recession ….

 

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YOU CAN’T HELP BUT WIN WITH WINWEB

05-Nov-08

Stefan and the winweb team are in the national press again, this time Alison Coleman of the Daily Express writes in their franchise section about WinWeb’s OnlineOffice 5 and remarks that you ‘can’t help but win with WinWeb.’

Alison makes the valid statement that most small businesses lack the financial resources to get good business support. Alison goes on to write a great piece about how OnlineOffice is the right tool at the right price for micro and small businesses, which includes franchisees.

This is just more exposure for the winweb winning formula. It also goes to show just how far ‘cloud computing’ has come in recent years, but winweb are the only operation out there that I can find offering this level of support to small business, and this is why Holden Associates chose to partner with winweb.

Go read the article here.

 

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Enterprise Week 2008 goes Global!

27-Oct-08

Enterprise week runs from 17-23 November 2008, the purpose of enterprise week is to celebrate enterprise. Last year there were over 5,000 events with over half a million people taking part.

These events are run throughout the UK as well as this year, Globally.

My local areas are both Lancashire and Merseyside, click on the area and go see what is on near you.

Winweb, our online solutions provider has also pledged their support to this very worthwhile event.

Taken from winweb hot sme news:

WinWeb could not agree more, that is why it has decided to support these two campaigns two fold:

Firstly, WinWeb will celebrate 15 years in business with it’s Business’09 campaign starting during Global Entrepreneurship Week/Enterprise Week 2008 and announce the global prize winners during the event in 2009. The main prize money is £10,000 or equivalent in US $ or Euros.

Secondly we will sponsor any business start-up or any business start-up planning exercise with nine (9) months free OnlineOffice access during this years global event week.

Both of these measures are open to anyone world-wide. Stefan Töpfer, CEO of WinWeb remarked: “These two campaigns are so aligned to our goals of fostering a society of economically independent people who are entrepreneurs and socially engaged, that our support for the great work of these campaigns has only just begun.”

Happy ‘entrepreneuring’ everyone!

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Winweb launch Version 5, the most powerful version yet!

08-Oct-08

winweb console Well it happened on Monday 6th October 2008, Winweb launched Version 5 of their powerful online office.

Online Office Version 5 is by far the most powerful version to date of the Online Office, there are over 100 new features, yes over 100!!

I am very excited about this launch, it is through collaboration that winweb are maturing, they ask their users what they want to see and then develop it and Version 5 is the latest development along this road.

Version 5 see’s winweb’s commitment to the smaller business with the launch of the new Academy section, described as an ideas and educational framework for entrepreneurs.

It all adds up to a very impressive offering, winweb is one of the early entrants into the Software as a Service ‘SaaS’ market, but unlike the competition, Stefan the founder of winweb is always keen to point out winweb is not about accounting software, winweb is about giving the small business a greater chance of survival by being a complete small business infrastructure.

If you have never looked at winweb or heard of winweb before and you run a small business don’t you think it is time you visited their website?

 

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