Category: Business Hub
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Online support for the self-employed
HMRC has produced a range of resources to help self-employed members, from record keeping to business expenses, starting your own business to income tax. E-learning: Starting your own business – where you can learn at your own pace Mobile apps: Record keeping, simpler income tax and mobile applications New HMRC app can be downloaded free of charge…
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Join top retail buyers from the beauty industry at Enterprise Nation’s Beauty Exchange
Enterprise Nation invites small businesses to be matched with retailers and entrepreneurs from the beauty industry, on Friday 12th June in London. This Beauty Exchange event will match small businesses with buyers from large retailers, with entrepreneurs who have successfully made it onto store shelves, as well as beauty bloggers and experts on topics ranging…
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How to keep good records
The new tax year starts in April, so HMRC is offering live webinars on how to keep good records. There will also be the opportunity to ask questions. Click on the links below to sign up and simplify your records next year. 20 March at 09:00 Business expenses for the self-employed 24 March at 09:00 Simpler income tax…
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Guidance on your VAT returns
It’s important that VAT returns are completed accurately and on time, so HMRC has developed a range of webinars to support businesses and to help make tax quick and simple. Live webinars last for an hour. You can ask questions during the presentation and get answers from the HMRC host. They’re aimed at businesses who are…
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Social media for your business
Not sure how to use social media for your business? Here are some great tips from salon owner and blogger, Larissa Macleman. I talk with small business owners every day and the questions I get asked the most about social media are: I don’t know what to post? Where do I find the time? Shall…
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Black Friday discounts
It’s the busiest shopping day of the year. Did you offer Black Friday discounts in your therapy practice? Image: iStockphoto
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Changes to VAT on digital services in the EU
Do you supply digital services – such as online training or downloadable apps – to people outside of the UK? If so, there is new legislation coming into effect from the 5 January that may impact you. For more information about this legislation For information about a free online event about these changes Image: Dollar…
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Free online CPD opportunities
What is CPD? Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is essential to good professional practice, showing the public, service users and employees that members are committed to upholding high standards. FHT Members and Fellows are committed to CPD*, completing a minimum of 10 points each year, and this can be done in a variety of ways.…
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Telepressure: the effects of email on health
New research, published in the Journal of Occupational Health and Psychology, reports that the urge to respond immediately to work-related messages may affect health. Larissa Barber, PhD, assistant professor of psychology at Northern Illinois University, has a name for this phenomenon: telepressure. It’s the urge to respond immediately to work-related messages, no matter when they…
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Surviving tough times
Paul Hitchens, Creative Director of Verve Brand Consultancy and contributor to International Therapist, offers some top tips to FHT members on how to build a brand during tough times… In tough times and at the onset of economic recession, the first impulse for many businesses is to cap spending. Despite the advice of seasoned businessmen to…
