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Fact Sheets

Alistair Darling’s 2007 Pre Budget Report
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The Budget 2008
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These fact sheets are in pdf format and require Adobe Acrobat Reader to be opened. If you do not have this on your computer, it can be download for free from the Adobe Website.

Starting up in Business

• Starting up in business
• Could I really make a go of it?
• What business structure shall I use?
• The business plan
• Raising finance
• Sources of finance
• Insuring your business

General Business

• Directors' responsibilities
• Preparing for your accountant
• The role of the Company Secretary
• Grants
• Valuing your business

Corporate and Business Tax

• IR35 Personal service companies
• Corporation Tax self assessment
• Quartlerly instalment payments
• Tax saving opportunities for companies
• Incorporation
• Franchising
• The construction industry scheme
• Capital Allowances

VAT

• An introduction to VAT
• VAT Annual accounting scheme
• VAT - Cash accounting
• VAT Flat rate scheme
• VAT - Bad debt relief

Employment Issues (tax)

• Travel and Subsistence for Directors and Employees
• Benefits in kind
• Company cars
• National insurance
• Share ownership for employees - EMI
• Payroll - Basic procedures

Employment and related matters

• The national minimum wage
• Statutory sick pay, Statutory maternity pay and Statutory paternity pay
• Dismissal procedures
• Recruitment procedures
• Redundancy procedures
• Managing absence
• Health and safety
• Legal working in the UK
• Age Discrimination

Personal Tax

• Taxation of the family
• Charitable giving
• Child tax credit
• Enterprise investment scheme
• Venture capital trusts
• Tax aspects of property investment
• Individual savings accounts
• Buy to let properties
• Buying Property in France or Spain
• An introduction to self assessment

Capital taxes

• Use of trusts
• Capital Gains Tax - Taper Relief
• Inheritance tax
• An introduction to Stamp Duty Land Tax
• Capital Gains Tax and the Family Home
• Pre-owned assets

Pensions

• Personal and Stakeholder Pensions
• Occupational Pension Schemes: Trustees' responsibilities

ICT

• E Commerce and Internet - The Jargon De-Mystified
• Internet and E-mail access - an acceptable use policy statement for employees
• Choosing an Accounting package
• Data security

Specialist Areas

• Charities: Trustees' Responsibilities
• Money Laundering and the Proceeds of Crime
• High value dealers
• Limited liability partnerships
• Community Amateur Sports Clubs