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Buy business property
Guidance and tips on buying business property in Northern Ireland including how to search for commercial premises and finance your purchase.
Security, fire and flood protection for business property
Best practice guidance for Northern Ireland businesses to minimise the risks from crime, fire, and flooding in commercial properties.
Tax breaks and finance for business property
Guidance on water charges, stamp duty, and tax reliefs for Northern Ireland commercial property.
Insurance for business property
Guidance for Northern Ireland businesses on commercial property insurance.
Rent business property
Guidance and tips on renting business property in Northern Ireland including commercial leases and landlord and tenant responsibilities.
Business premises and rates
Guidance on business property in Northern Ireland including business rates, buying and renting commercial property and managing your business premises
Property efficiency
Guidance on how businesses can reduce energy consumption and save money by making commercial premises more efficient.
Business rates
Guidance for Northern Ireland businesses on non-domestic rates, how to pay them and available rate reliefs.
Home working
Best practice guidance on using your home as a place to base your work.
Cashflow forecast examples
How you can use cashflow forecasts to plan for borrowing and for peaks and troughs in your business cycle.
Financing from friends and family
Pros and cons of getting a loan from friends and family and your tax position on repayments.
Alternatives to bankruptcy
Other options to consider before making yourself bankrupt.
Acquire assets and borrow money tax efficiently
Tax efficient methods of borrowing and how they can apply to your business.
Calculating tax relief when acquiring an asset
How tax relief can work in different ways when borrowing or leasing to acquire an asset.
Tax relief for buying or leasing assets
Information on the tax reliefs available when buying or leasing assets, and the rules for VAT.
Borrow money for capital investment from pension schemes
How small self-administered pension schemes allow a business to borrow money with certain restrictions.
Claim loan interest against tax
If you deduct loan interest from your profits you can reduce your business tax bill.
Avoid the problems of overtrading
How expanding businesses can match production and order cycles using gearing, working capital or quick ratio tests.
Assessing your cash needs: creditors and debtors
Debtor days ratios and creditor days ratios estimate how long you take to pay debts and customers take to pay you.
Assessing your cash needs: assets and liabilities
Gearing ratios, working capital ratios and quick ratios are useful tools to compare assets and liabilities.