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Essential Business Growth Principles 


You may remember our Essential Business Growth Principles from a few months ago, when they were part of an email series.

If you missed any, or just want to re-read them, they are now on the website!

Just click here to access them.

 

TipOfTheWeekTop Tax Tip


Have you considered investing in ISAs for tax-free income or capital growth?

Tip: You can invest up to �10,680, 50% of which can be in cash.

Professional advice is essential.

 

If you need any help regarding this, please click here or ring us on 0800 612 2008

If you would like more Tax Tips, why not download our specially designed Tax Kits?  

 

Or, to get more specific advice, use our free Ask an Accountant service!

 



Questions that Change Your Mind

  

George Herbert wrote, 'He begins to die that quits his desires.' What keeps you alive?

   

  

Andrew Sercombe

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Powerchange - a different approach. 

 

QuoteOfTheWeekQuote Of The Week

    


A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
 

 

  


Henry Ward Beecher


Scan This!


These are the new QR codes that are becoming more and more popular across the UK. Tips of the week - put one on your business card, all people have to do is scan it (through a QR code scanner on their phone), and they get redirected to your website straight away!

 

Joke of the Week  

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An economist is someone who gets rich explaining to others why they are poor. 

 

 

 

 

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Free Useful Business Forms

We have a new resource on our website, where you can get all the forms you need for dealing with the Taxman and Inland Revenue.

 

To have a look, click here. 

 

 

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Greetings!    

 

The answer for the last Brainteaser competition (Ostriches) was:  

 

Mark had 49 and Rachel had 35.

 

And the winner is... 

 

Matthew Page, from Scannex - Congratulations Matthew!

 

Last week's BrainTeaser was sponsored by   Philemon Business Development.   

 

This week's BrainTeaser is just for fun.

 

If you would like to know more about sponsoring our BrainTeaser, please click here. 

BrainTeaser -  A Riddle! 

 

I have one, you have one. 

 

If you remove the first letter, a bit remains. 

 

If you remove the second, bit still remains. 

 

After much trying, you might be able to remove the third one also, but it remains.  

 

What word are we looking for?

 

Click here to email us the answer!  

 

This week's BrainTeaser is just for fun. If you would like to know more about the benefits of sponsoring our BrainTeaser, click here. 

 

  

How We Want To Help You Get More Business!

As you know, we are always trying to think of new ways we can help our Clients to grow, and get more business.

 

Well, we've got another idea, which we think will benefit each and every one of our clients!

 

We want to create a business directory that will add to our Client's business through gaining more leads, more clients, and ultimately, more money.

 

We're going to do this by not only creating a business directory, but also marketing the businesses that are included in it, through various Social Media platforms, as well as Email Marketing and SEO (Search Engine Optimisation).

 

It is going to be completely free, and just for Clients of Keepers. We want to try and make our Business Directory different to all the other ones out there, and the way we are going to do this is by actually driving traffic to it, through things like SEO, Facebook, Twitter, Blogging etc.

 

Register your interest here, and one of us will be in contact shortly.

 

If you are interested in our Business Directory, all you have to do for the time-being is to click the link below to register your interest, and we will send you a short form with what we'll need, for example, a bit of blurb about your company, the keywords that your audience is searching for (so that we can optimise your page) and a special offer for Keepers Clients.

 

Register your interest here, and one of us will be in contact shortly.

Tax On Company Cars

 

Tax on Company Cars is part of the reason that being provided with a company car has reached such high levels of cost. In order to minimise the tax costs of company cars, careful consideration is now needed as to whether or not to make use of a company car for personal use.

Company Car Tax Factors To Take Into Consideration

  • The basics - The amount of tax, and what tax band your company car falls into, is determined by the vehicle's list price, CO2 emissions, and the type of fuel the car uses. The lower the CO2 emissions and list price, the lower that tax charge on your company car. Bear in mind though, diesel vehicles carry a premium. The charge is discounted for environmentally friendly cars, and if you have a company car which cannot, under any circumstances, produce CO2 emissions, then there is no tax charge.

To read the rest of this article, click here.

Client Spotlight - AMC Cars 

  

Hi, I'm Benjamin Blankson, from AMC Cars in Newhaven. We supply used cars to customers all over Sussex, at the most affordable prices.

 

With over 32 years experience, we at AMC Cars care about our customers, and part of our caring service, is that we test drive each car as if it was our own, for at least 100 miles before the vehicles are put up for sale. We do this as if we are buying each car for ourselves, and also to diagnose any mechanical faults on the vehicles, and if any faults are found during this process, we rectify any faults prior to the vehicles being offered for sale.

 

Since our launch in 1986, we have been offering a friendly, local service to all our clients, across the South East, as well as nationally.

 

Our 'Car of the Week' is shown below. To view the list of our vehicles currently on sale, please visit http://www.amccars.co.uk/ - You won't be disappointed!

 

 

 

To learn more about us, our cars, and how we can help you to find your dream car, you can contact us by any means listed below:

 

01273 515900

07778 190744

http://www.amccars.co.uk 

[email protected]  

 

Facebook - One Easy Way To Stand Out From The Crowd

With so many businesses already on Facebook, it can be hard to get noticed by your target niche. What most of the businesseadidas, facebooks don't know, however, is that there is one way you can stand out from everyone else; and that's what I'm going to tell you today.

 

You can actually use Facebook as a mini-website if you wanted to, with the help of one application - Static FBML. FBML stands for Facebook Markup Language, and is much the same as HTML.

 

To stand out from your competitors on Facebook, you can use this application to create a mini website, which will sit in a 'tab' on your Facebook fan page.

 

To read the rest of this article, click here. 


Understanding the tax treatment of Travel & Subsistence Expenses

Travel and Subsistence Expenses is usually a surprisingly complex area of tax!

 

To put it simply, employees are entitled to tax free payments for a business journey. The employer can either pay the employee, tax free, to cover the cost incurred, or the employee can claim for tax relief on any loss through their personal tax return.

 

It is irrelevant that the employee may or may not have made a saving. For example, if the employee drives 5 miles from home to the office, but then needs to drive another 25 from home to a business client, the full 30 miles are claimable, not just the extra 25.

 

Click here to read the rest of this article

ComedyComedy Zone - How to get a job!

How to get a job!
How to get a job!

  

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