I have a fully working printer which is surplus to requirements. It is an OKI B430DN. The only reason I replaced it was that I needed a printer with a document feeder for scanning.
Please let me know if you’d like it. First come first served!
Free to clients or £50 to anyone who isn’t a client!
UPDATE: SORRY, THE PRINTER HAS BEEN NABBED BY A VERY FAST FAST CLIENT!
I’ve got one copy of QuickBooks Pro 2012 to download from QuickBooks’ website and for which I can then give you the licence number and installation key code.
As a special Christmas bargain, this is available for £90 plus VAT, a huge saving on the regular price.
I will update this posting once the item has been sold.
I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and wish you the very best for 2012 – where did 2011 go???
UPDATE 13 MARCH 2012: Phoenix Communication Services Limited have purchased the download copy of QuickBooks 2012. They are voice & data system engineers and consultants based in Worcestershire, but basically, if you have any IT problem, they can help or know someone who can!
We have launched our “Red Envelope“. If you utilise our book keeping and VAT preparation services, we will shortly be sending you a Red Envelope. This is for you to return your monthly or quarterly book keeping information to us. Once we receive a Red Envelope from you, we will send you another one ready for the next batch of information.
We hope that you find this useful. We believe that putting your information into the Red Envelope as soon as you’ve dealt with it will help you keep your relevant paperwork together and once it is in there, you can forget about it (other than posting the envelope to us of course!).
Please do provide us with feedback as to whether you like the idea and whether the envelopes are of a suitable quality to safely convey your information to us. We will use this feedback to drive any future improvements to the design.
CostCo are currently selling QuickBooks Pro 2010 for a very good price of £104.99 plus VAT until the 22nd May 2011.This is a very good price so if you have an older version of QuickBooks, now is the time to upgrade. QuickBooks 2011 is on sale in America at the moment so will be coming to the UK within the next few months, but we still think it is worth upgrading now at this price.
We offer a software upgrade service so if you want us to install your new software for you and you live within a 20 mile radius of where we’re based, please contact us for more details.
Can you believe we’re nearly into April already? You have only a few days to act before the tax year end:
QuickBooks Pro 2010 is currently £116.97 at Amazon, with no delivery charge. This is by far the cheapest we have seen it anywhere. It is part of their “Deals of the week”, so if you want a copy, you need to act quickly!
Here is our summary of the main points of the Budget held yesterday, 23rd March 2011. The main point I think the Government is missing is that small businesses need as much help as possible at the moment. Banks are more reluctant to lend to them and they are really being squeezed.
Budget Summary March 2011 (289)The rise in National Insurance is still going ahead and whilst the corporation tax rate from 1 April 2011 fell to 20% from 21%, the rate for larger businesses has gone down by 2% with a further 1% decrease each year until it reaches 23%. It seems that the Government put supporting larger businesses at the forefront and don’t consider what a boost it would be for the economy to give small businesses a real shot in the arm.
The last filing date for personal tax returns for the year ended 5 April 2010 is tomorrow, 31st January 2011. If you miss this deadline, you will face a £100 late filing penalty unless the tax you owe as at 31 January 2011 is less than £100 as the penalty cannot exceed the amount of tax due. So, if you pay an estimate of your tax, but you’re £60 short, then you’d have to pay the £60 tax plus a £60 penalty.
If you have yet to pay your tax due tomorrow, then it isn’t too late. The Revenue don’t accept same day payments from banks, so the only option is use the BillPay feature with your debit or credit card (a fee applies if you use a credit card).
Personally, I have 6 tax returns still to be completed and a further 3 which have been done but not yet authorised by clients to be filed. I can see tomorrow being a very busy day!
QuickBooks 2010 is here! I have been using it for a few weeks now and find that there are quite a few new features which make an upgrade worthwhile. It runs on Windows 7 as well as the older operating systems. The main new features include:
If you’d like to buy a copy of QuickBooks 2010 Pro Edition, I have one (and only one!) copy for sale for £140 plus VAT. If you are interested, please e-mail me on andrea@fast-accounts.co.uk. I will update this post once the item has sold.
UPDATE 24 August 2010 – The copy of QuickBooks 2010 Pro has been sold to Wixted Cleaning Limited, a cleaning company based in Millbrook, Bedfordshire.
Our summary of what was in the post election Budget yesterday, 22 June 2010, is now available to download from our website.
The Budget didn’t contain any real surprises. The increase in the VAT rate to 20% was widely expected and in fact, we had originally forecast that this would come in in January 2010.
There is some help for businesses included in the budget with a planned decrease in corporation tax rates to 20% for smaller businesses and reducing by 1% for larger businesses per annum until it is at 24%.
The good news comes for clients wishing to sell their businesses. Entrepreneurs Relief which effectively reduces the rate of capital gains tax for all qualifying lifetime gains up to £2m is now extended to £5m.
The main thrust of the Budget was to save money within their spending plans and reduce the tax burden of the benefit system. This has included freezing child benefit for 3 years and stricter rules on other benefits. The good news for lower earners was the increase in the personal allowance by £1,000 and the increase in Child Tax Credits for low income families of around £150 above the rate of inflation next year.
Any comments are very welcome!
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