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shoes

shoes

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Hello all

I have just been accepted for a lease on a commercial unit in Stafford and I am in need of a solicitor to complete the process. Could anyone with experience of one please advise who I should (or shouldn't) use?

Many thanks.
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

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shoes said:
Hello all

I have just been accepted for a lease on a commercial unit in Stafford and I am in need of a solicitor to complete the process. Could anyone with experience of one please advise who I should (or shouldn't) use?

Many thanks.
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Good to hear mate, what area you gonna be in?
 
shoes

shoes

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Well yes... brexit is fun, all the products I use are german and american so now considerably more expensive... and no, i can't use uk made stuff because it's utter shit. Yay....taken back control.......etc.
 
John Marwood

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shoes said:
Well yes... brexit is fun, all the products I use are german and american so now considerably more expensive... and no, i can't use uk made stuff because it's utter shit. Yay....taken back control.......etc.
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Still some cheap rentals in Berlin
 
hop

hop

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shoes said:
Well yes... brexit is fun, all the products I use are german and american so now considerably more expensive... and no, i can't use uk made stuff because it's utter shit. Yay....taken back control.......etc.
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Have you considering charging your customers in euros ? Very simple with apps like Barclays pingit etc...
If you are trading via a uk based LTD then rather than paying 20% corporation tax and further tax on dividend distribution just setup a virtual office in Europe. In many places you can pay less than 15% combined tax. Estoninia is easy to establish a business in and your overall tax will be less than here.
After this debacle I will reduce my uk based tax footprint to the absolute minimum.
 
shoes

shoes

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That all sounds very complicated - what would the implications be to my customers, currency exchange etc?
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
shoes said:
That all sounds very complicated - what would the implications be to my customers, currency exchange etc?
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They'd exchange at their cards rate I assume? Always worth getting an interbank no fee card for such payments, but many will just blindly pay with their normal card and get charged whatever their bank tells them.
 
Chick

Chick

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hop said:
Have you considering charging your customers in euros ? Very simple with apps like Barclays pingit etc...
If you are trading via a uk based LTD then rather than paying 20% corporation tax and further tax on dividend distribution just setup a virtual office in Europe. In many places you can pay less than 15% combined tax. Estoninia is easy to establish a business in and your overall tax will be less than here.
After this debacle I will reduce my uk based tax footprint to the absolute minimum.
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Isn't that exactly what the likes of Google, Starbucks and Amazon do to avoid paying corporation tax?
 
hop

hop

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shoes said:
That all sounds very complicated - what would the implications be to my customers, currency exchange etc?
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You can start by registering for the Estonian e-residency scheme. This will provide an id and allow you access government systems to complete tax returns.
Next you need find a virtual office.
Then you can open a company and invoice through it.
 
proactive

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hop said:
All legal. I don't see why I should pay any extra tax to a government which is acting in such a fascist way. I know many other people who are doing exactly the same, if the brexiters want to be poorer then so be it, they were warned.
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A very fair point, well made.
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

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Chick said:
Isn't that exactly what the likes of Google, Starbucks and Amazon do to avoid paying corporation tax?
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I would like to clarify here, in that if multi billion dollar multinational companies are legally allowed to avoid tax then the fairness I seek means so do all the small businesses. I'm not advocating avoiding tax, quite the opposite. I'd like to see every pound spent in the UK taxed in the UK, until such happens I say dodge everything you can because everyone else does. The government can close the loopholes, but none ever do, so I say fill your boots!
 
Chick

Chick

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hop said:
All legal. I don't see why I should pay any extra tax to a government which is acting in such a fascist way. I know many other people who are doing exactly the same, if the brexiters want to be poorer then so be it, they were warned.
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tek-monkey said:
I would like to clarify here, in that if multi billion dollar multinational companies are legally allowed to avoid tax then the fairness I seek means so do all the small businesses. I'm not advocating avoiding tax, quite the opposite. I'd like to see every pound spent in the UK taxed in the UK, until such happens I say dodge everything you can because everyone else does. The government can close the loopholes, but none ever do, so I say fill your boots!
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I'm sure it is legal

I'm also sure I'm not alone in feeling anger towards both the government for allowing the loophole to remain open and with the companies in purposely avoiding the tax.

As a consumer all I can do is try to avoid spending my money in establishments that operate in this way

Depending on the type of customer base you work with, potential lost business might be something to consider as well
 
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