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Manage business finances
Guides on why managing finance is an important part of starting and running your business
Family business
Understand the benefits and issues that affect family-run businesses, employing family members or financing from friends and family
Start-up business ideas
Guides and tools to help you find and develop ideas for ways to start up your own business in Northern Ireland
Hire professional services
Guides on how and why to hire professional service providers to help your business in the startup phase
Business planning
Guides on how to create a business plan for your startup and how business plans can be useful at different stages of your business
Record-keeping
Guidance on record-keeping for businesses including how to set up a basic system and free templates
Claim VAT refunds in Northern Ireland or the EU, if you’re established in Northern Ireland or in the EU
How Northern Ireland and EU businesses can claim refunds of VAT incurred on goods in the EU and Northern Ireland using the EU VAT refund system.
If you cannot pay your tax bill on time
You must arrange to pay your tax bill with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) if you either miss a payment or know you cannot pay on time
Starting a business - find a case study
A range of case studies from local entrepreneurs who have started successful businesses
Starting my business from home - Angels and Butterflies Jewellery Designs (video)
Debbie Todd, owner of Angels and Butterflies Jewellery Designs, discusses how she started her business from home
Types of stock
The four main types of stock - raw materials and components, work in progress, finished goods and consumables
How much stock should you keep?
Advantages and disadvantages of keeping either plenty of stock or very little
Stock control methods
How to control stock through reviews, minimum levels, using batch control and first in first out systems
Self Assessment if you're self-employed
Requirements for Self Assessment if you are self-employed
Understand business taxes - top support resources
Top resources to help you better understand and be more confident in dealing with your business taxes
Working out your Corporation Tax
Corporation Tax rates and reliefs and how to calculate Corporation Tax
Templates for record-keeping
Download free templates that can help your business with record-keeping
Tobacco Products Duty: moving and storing goods
Requirements for moving and storing goods and Tobacco Products Duty
Tax when giving to charity
How to make gifts to charity and claim relief on giving, tax relief rules for sponsoring a charity and how Payroll Giving works
Tax payment problems
Get help if you can’t pay your tax bill on time and the consequences if you don’t pay your tax bill