Category: Business
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Xero CIS – correcting a submitted return (it is possible)
If you make a mistake deducting CIS tax from a subcontractor, submitting the return to HMRC, and then having to work out how to correct it, this post is for you! (and me, ’cause that’s what just happened and the Xero documentation and initial support response is wrong). Quick version: Long version: CIS is the…
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Solution sharing: My small business phone system, 4 lines, 6 extensions, and costs less than £10 per month
plus call costs of about 1p/minute Short version: Get SIP trunks from Dial9.co.uk**, get a small Virtual Machine running at DigitalOcean*, install IncrediblePBX, connect to your own phones. Where we start from: BT Openreach are turning off analog copper phone lines and moving everyone to an all IP (Internet Protocol) system. It’s called SOGeA (Single…
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Printers, running costs and life expectancy
Our main A4 colour printer just reached the end of it’s life and is not worth repairing so I turned to my spreadsheet of printer costs to work out what to replace it with. We buy the printers and don’t lease them as this has always been a lot cheaper in the long term. This…